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On Our Radar: Breaking Down the "Model Minority," Things That Shouldn't Be Joked About, and Magic Mike!

Bitch HQ post by Devyn Manibo on June 29, 2012 - 11:05am; tagged feminism, feminist, feminist critique, links, On Our Radar.

Here's what we've been thinking about this week that isn't the TomKat divorce announcement.

  • A fourth edition of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera is to be published, but it can't happen without your help! [Kickstarter]
  • Jay Smooth tells us why "don't feed the trolls" is a stupid piece of internet advice. Feed them or relinquish your position on the internet forever! [Ill Doctrine]
  • We all know (or at least we all should know) that the myth of the "model minority" is super problematic! Here are some solid reasons why it hurts not only the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, but why it hurts everyone. [Colorlines/Feministing]
  • Sexual harassment isn't a joke. This mall in New Jersey doesn't seem to agree. [TDN]
  • Speaking of things that aren't jokes, abuse against women, and abuse IN GENERAL is not something to make a "funny" t-shirt design out of. It's not funny. Stop that. [Open File]
  • Jos Truitt explores cissexism, the undermining of trans identities, and unexamined privilege and oppression within queer communities. [Feministing]
  • Remember the Bechdel Test? Well here's the Roberts Test for trans people of color in film and television. [Transgriot]
  • Flavia Dzodan responds to the Anne-Marie Slaughter piece on feminism's "failures." [Tiger Beatdown]
  • Wanna be a "reverse racist" and learn how to oppress white people? Check out this step by step guide. Wait, you don't think I'm serious, right? That's not how oppression works. But get a kick out of this hilarious racial satire. [Black Girl Dangerous]
  • The Allied Media Conference is this weekend in Detroit! Browse the schedule here, and follow #AMC2012 on Twitter. [AMP]
  • Anne Helen Peterson discusses the female gaze, desire, and Magic Mike! Stay tuned for our review (via Popaganda–back by popular demand!) of Channing Tatum's fantastic acting skills naked bod later today! [Anne Helen Peterson]
  • Check out this piece on Nora Ephron's early years when she was a feminist New Journalism pioneer. [Salon]
  • Portland update: For Bitch Media's second installment of CineBitch, we'll be screening 9 to 5 at Mississippi Studios on Monday, July 2nd at 7pm!
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That's Our Jam: Vote Bitch for Rose City Rollers Community Outreach Partner!

Bitch HQ post by Kelsey Wallace on June 26, 2012 - 1:33pm; tagged roller derby, votes.
We're proud to announce that our down 'n' derby pals at the Rose City Rollers have chosen Bitch Media as a finalist to be their next community outreach partner! As mega roller derby fans, we'd love the chance to work with the Rollers to promote each other's causes and cheer each other on throughout the season. (For more on the Rose City Rollers, check out our review of Brutal Beauty, a super documentary about them.)

three of the Rose City Rollers during a bout

The contest closes on July 30, so vote now and tell your friends to do the same! Vote for Bitch here on the campaign site or here on Facebook!
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On Our Radar: Vaginas, Intentionality, and So Many Queer and Feminist Events!

Bitch HQ post by Devyn Manibo on June 22, 2012 - 11:52am; tagged feminism, feminist, Feminist response to pop culture, links, On Our Radar.

This has been a week! Here's what we've been thinking about.

  • After the giant mess around Rep. Lisa Brown's oh so horrifying use of the word "vagina" (GOD FORBID!), thousands of people watched in delight in Lansing, Michigan, as women legislators enacted The Vagina Monologues on the steps of the state Capitol in response to the passing of HB 5711. [Ms. Blog]
  • Where do you wanna be when 20,000 dykes take over New York City? At the 20th annual NYC Dyke March, of course. It's happening this Saturday – there's an after party too! [NYC Dyke March]
  • Listen to this great conversation with our very own Andi Zeisler on gains and setbacks for working women, family policy, women's status in developing countries, and the path of women's progress in the last fifteen years. [Chicago Policy Radio]
  • C.L.I.T. (Combatting Latent Inequality Together) Fest, an awesome three-day DIY, music, and arts festival is happening in New Brunswick, NJ in July (previously in DC, PDX, LA, Chicago, etc.), and they need your help to get things done! [C.L.I.T. Fest NB]
  • Super queer, super feminist, super rad, Sourpatch is on tour, and they're playing in Portland with Joyride and Forever on Monday! [PC-PDX]
  • Skills vs. Luck – The Olympics prove their blatant sexism once again! Because clearly, females can't have skills, especially not athletic skills. [Feministing]
  • Check out Jay Smooth's video about those terrible Adidas "shackle shoes," a criticism of thoughts about intentionality, and how racism doesn't come just from overtly racist intent. [Animal New York]
  • Alyssa Rosenberg wrote an open letter to the creators of Tomb Raider for their horrific insensitivity and perpetuation of rape culture. [Think Progress]
  • In Palestinian solidarity, Alice Walker declined a request to publish an Israeli edition of The Color Purple. [The Guardian]
  • Oy gevalt, True Blood! There are respectful ways to tap into Jewish culture and religion, and this is definitely not one of them. [Tablet]
  • Here's what went down at the End Stop-and-Frisk silent march against racial profiling. [Colorlines]
  • Portland update: Bitch's own Kelsey Wallace is a judge at this year's Offkey Karaoke (a benefit for the YWCA). Come help her cheer on (or heckle, if need be) the contestants this Saturday!
What have you been reading, musing, raging, or raving about? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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On Our Radar: Radical Nuns, Misogynist Backlash, and Deconstructing Femininity

Bitch HQ post by Devyn Manibo on June 15, 2012 - 11:30am; tagged body policing, femininity, gaming, links, misogyny, On Our Radar, radical nuns.

Well, this has been another week.

  • Misogyny is still kickin', but Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency is kickin' right back. With over $100k to fund her project, she is pretty much unstoppable. Kate or Die! and Catiemonster sum it up in some awesome comics. [Feminist Frequency/Geek Feminism]
  • More in misogyny and gaming, the creators of the popular videogame, Tomb Raider seem to think that watching Lara Croft experience sexual assault makes the character more "likeable," and that it makes game players want to "protect her." Wait, what? Because clearly, misogynists are having trouble feeling self-righteous or heroic. Or whatever. [Salon]
  • Radical, feminist, nuns? Certainly not what I had in high school. These super sisters will be setting off on bus tour to promote and support Obama's Affordable Care Act and its no co-pay contraception mandate. [Ms. Blog]
  • ABC Family's Bunheads (because clearly, we need more shows made by white people about white people, right? RIGHT?) received some criticism from Shonda Rhimes for its lack of diversity. What else is new? Here's what's wrong and how/why we could do better. [XO Jane]
  • Remember the giant mess around whether or not Caster Semenya should be able to compete in the Olympics or not? Well, the Olympics are still obsessed with policing femininity, masking their obsession by saying this is just about hormone levels, and the "truth" of the binary. Stop that. [Feministing]
  • Read up on some super great insight on feminine standards, privileged notions of seeing, and smashing normative ideals of femme. [Femmetech]
  • And more on experiencing the world as a femme/femme of color! Militant resistance of weakness and coming to new understandings of femininity! [Elixher]
  • Are you in the New York Metropolitan area? End Stop and Frisk, a silent march to protest racial profiling, is happening this Sunday, June 17th, in New York City, and you should go. [Feministing]
  • Coverage of the Jerry Sandusky case(s), sugarcoated sexual assault, and rape apologists abound. [Shakesville]
  • Professor Maria Cotera has an exciting and very ambitious plan to build an online Chicana feminist archive, Chicana por mi raza. One step closer to filling in the gaps of social movement history. [The Clayman Institute for Gender Research]
  • San Francisco's Castro Theatre hosted the Asian Pacific American Vagina Monologues last month. Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner? Will they do this again?? Because they totally should. Visibility, y'all. Then maybe we'll have less people pretending they're Asian (*cough* Dita Von Teese *cough*). Asians are real, did you know? Check out this awesome conversation with the show's executive producer Julia Rhee! [Hyphen]

What have you been reading, musing, raging, or raving about? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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On Our Radar: Yellowface, Transfeminism(s), and Some Rage to Share

Bitch HQ post by Devyn Manibo on June 8, 2012 - 11:12am; tagged links, On Our Radar.

Well, this has been a week. Are you outraged yet?

  • Can you smell the transphobia in the air? Developments in the CeCe McDonald case state that she is to be housed in a male prison, and to top that off, the media continues to ignore assaults on transgender women. [Colorlines/The Daily Beast]
  • Dita Von Teese is nothing short of a hot mess with her brand spankin' new, orientalist burlesque show, now with extra cultural appropriation! [Racialicious]
  • Speaking of Yellowface, has anyone seen that new terrible video by Coldplay, featuring Rihanna? Nothing like hypersexualized ambiguously "Asian" bodies. And y'all thought Nicki Minaj and R. Kelly were as bad as it could get. Nope! Rihanna and Chris Martin take the cake. [YouTube]
  • Is the effectivity of single-sex schooling a myth? Scientifically, maybe, but socially, couldn't it be a great thing? Was my high school education a lie? [Jezebel]
  • Check out the trans feminist bloggers roundtable on transfeminism(s). [Ms. Blog]
  • Leslie Feinberg was arrested in solidarity with CeCe McDonald, and charged with property damage. Not such a sweet start to Pride Month. [Original Plumbing]
  • War on drugs, or war on women? Gender-based violence in on the rise in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. Increased militarization certainly isn't helping the matter. [Feministing]
  • Sexual libertines don't understand the nature and purpose of sex? Because they don't understand religious liberty??? Chill out, Helene Alvare. We want our contraceptives, and we don't want to pay for them, so back off! [Salon]
  • Looking beyond the Western World, defending the relevance of feminism(s). [fbomb]
  • D-List male celebrities looking for dates, faceless female voices, spinning chairs, and dramatic button pushing? Is this for real? That doesn't sound like something I want to watch either. [Feminists For Choice]
  • Mainstream cinema, female action heroes, and why they're not good role models. [IndieWire]
  • Wayne Coyne is being a jerk. Erykah Badu is disgusted. We're not surprised. [Vulture]
  • Um, what? Some men are secretly filming women breast pumping at work. Is this really a thing? Can it not be?  [Mommyish]

What have you been reading, musing, raging, or raving about? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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On Our Radar: Snow White, Urban Outfitters, and 50 Shades of Grey

Bitch HQ post by Kjerstin Johnson on June 1, 2012 - 1:02pm; tagged links, On Our Radar.
Another week, another news cycle devoted to John Edwards' sex life. Here are some non-Edwardian links for your Friday!
  • Mari Naomi interviews Alison Bechdel in text and comic form! [The Rumpus]
  • Why on EARTH is Urban Outfitters selling these "ironic" Mitt Romney t-shirts? [Brokelyn]
  • Hey Portland and PacNWers, the Women of Color Zine Symposium is happening tomorrow at Portland State.
  • In other PDX news, the Portland Oregon Women's Film Fest (POWFest) is now accepting submissions for next year! Read about submissions here.
  • Tami Winfrey Harris covers the coverage of 50 Shades of Grey [Clutch]
  • Fangs for the Fantasy recognizes the progress of the reimagined Snow White movies, but points out it it still has huge shortcomings when it comes sexuality, race, and ability. [Racialicious]
  • Emily Manuel's wrenching poem is a must read. [Tiger Beatdown]
  • According to this report from the 4th Estate, women are significantly underrepresented in 2012 election coverage in major media outlets, even when it comes to women's issues. Sigh. At least the bad news is presented using good infographics? [4th Estate]
  • Five Wives Vodka has been banned in Idaho for its offensive label. What do you think? [Buzzfeed]
  • Bitch's own Andi Zeisler was on Culture Club again this week! Check out her thoughts on TV and self-esteem, as well as that marriage proposal everyone's talking about. [OPB]
  • Shelby Knox reminds us that, three years after Dr. Tiller's murder, anti-abortion terrorism is still a real threat.
  • s.e. smith meditates on the "perfect victim" narrative in the media. [This Ain't Livin']
Share what you've been reading/writing this week in the comments!
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Now at BitchMart: Tote Bag with Illustration from Leslie A. Wood!

Bitch HQ post by Ashley McAllister on May 31, 2012 - 10:31am; tagged BitchMart, tote bag.
Image shows a cream colored tote bag with a green and black illustration of a woman with a beehive hairdo knitting a scarf sitting on a stool next to a toddler who is standing on top of a cat. They are surrounded by illustrations of pie, candles, hats, flowers, a sewing machine, mittens, among other tiny images. The tote bag is lying on a wood table with several issues of Bitch magazine popping out of the top.

Are you a fan of craft blogs? How about beehive hairdos and oven-fresh pies? We've got just the tote bag for you! BitchMart's newest product features Leslie A. Wood's Better Homes & Bloggers illustration on a 100% organic cotton cream colored tote bag. Buy yours at BitchMart today!

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Articles from the Fame + Fortune Issue Now Online!

Bitch HQ post by Kjerstin Johnson on May 29, 2012 - 3:25pm;

never said nothingno disrespecttrophy wives

Hey Bitch readers! Now you can find four articles from our new Fame + Fortune issue to read and share online. And if you're not a subscriber, here's a chance to see what you're missing. Plus, you can now buy digital copies of the new issue as well!

On our articles page, you'll find "Never Said Nothing," where Lindsay Zoladz takes a look at how the use of "cunt" has progressed in pop music ("212," anyone?), Tamara Winfrey Harris (of What Tami Said) looks at respectability politics and black women through a pop culture lens in "No Disrespect," Gretchen Sisson (our The 99% guest blogger) returns to class, pop culture, and feminism with "In Richness or in Wealth," on modern-day trophy wives, and lastly, Sarah Mirk profiles Laura Hudson, editor of Comics Alliance and progressive comics crusader. Read, comment, and share today! 

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On Our Radar: S.E. Cupp, Community, and Cabinet of Wonders

Bitch HQ post by Kelsey Wallace on May 25, 2012 - 12:04pm; tagged links, roundup.
When we weren't wasting spending time on our shiny new Pinterest boards, this is what we were reading this week:
  • Libby Copeland on why fashion models keep getting younger [Slate]
  • We Are All S.E. Cupp, the Conservative Pundit Bullied by Hustler says Lindsay Beyerstein [In These Times]. If you agree, sign the change.org petition.
  • Remember that racial discrimination lawsuit against the Bachelor/ette franchise? Bitch contributor Jenn Pozner breaks it down. [Daily Beast]
  • No one knows what's next for Community, but Arturo R. García has some thoughts on the show's depiction of geekdom and race. [Racialicious]
  • We haven't heard it yet, but the new radio show Cabinet of Wonders sounds amaaazing. [NPR]
  • A Gallup poll released this week showed that the percentage of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” is at an all-time low of 47 percent, while 50 percent identify as “pro-life.” Jessica Valenti wonders, "Does it really matter?" [The Nation]
  • If you haven't been reading Bitch contributor Anne Helen Peterson's "Scandals of Classic Hollywood" series, this entry on Marlene Dietrich is a good place to start. [The Hairpin]
  • Once you see the cast of Game of Thrones out of character, you can't un-see it. [Vulture]
What have you been reading/writing this week? Share your links in the comments!
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Bitch Media is on Pinterest! Y'know, If You're Pinterested.

Bitch HQ post by Kelsey Wallace on May 25, 2012 - 11:22am; tagged Pinterest.
Pinterest! We are on it! We've got boards for art lovers, book lovers, fashion lovers, pet lovers, and everyone in between. We're pinning up a storm over here!

screen shot of the Bitch Media pinterest page
How Pinteresting!

If you're on Pinterest too, let's hang out over there! Follow Bitch Media on Pinterest here.
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