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Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief

The Bitch in Black post by Deesha Philyaw on April 20, 2009 - 9:23pm; tagged black women, feminism, intersectionality, Michelle Obama, motherhood, parenting, race, work.
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"Sexism subjects women to many tyrannies, but intersectionality ensures that all women are not subjected to the same ones. That America recognizes Michelle Obama as the black mother of black children, that she is comfortable and able to make the personal decision to choose motherhood for a time, I think, is a good thing. It represents a step outside of the stereotype trifecta of Mammy, Sapphire and Jezebel that is the black woman’s burden."--Tami Winfrey Harris, editor, AntiRacistParent

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Sandra Naujoks: A Model Millionaire Poker Player

DigiBitch post by Mandy Van Deven on April 20, 2009 - 8:30pm; tagged poker.

Welcome to Poker Babes. Sexiest Women of Poker. Why is Google more interested in the way these ladies look than how they’re making mad cash off a keen intellect and sly ability to out bluff their opponents?

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Adventures in Feministory: Frances Perkins and the New Deal

DigiBitch post by Danny Hayes on April 20, 2009 - 6:05pm; tagged FDR, Frances Perkins, Great Depression, New Deal, Social Security, Women in Politics.


1935 was an interesting year, to say the least. Capitalism, the industrialization of the labor market, and, most importantly, the Great Depression, had combined to create a perfect storm that left American workers and their families facing unprecedented hardships with little help from the government to overcome them. President Roosevelt faced the gargantuan task of coming up with solutions to these problems, and to help him he appointed the first-ever female cabinet member, Secretary of Labor and mother of the American welfare state Frances Perkins.  Thanks to her, that year also got to see the passage of the Social Security Act.

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That's a hulk of a statement, Mr. Hogan

DigiBitch post by Ashley Brittner on April 20, 2009 - 4:01pm; tagged douchbags, Hulk Hogan, Linda Bollea, Nicole Brown Simpson, OJ Simpson.

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In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Hulk Hogan says he can empathize with OJ Simpson, alluding to the 1994 murders of Simpson's wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman. Hogan and his wife, Linda Bollea (Hogan's real name), split up in November 2007 when Bollea filed for divorce. She has since started dating a much younger man, which apparently angers Hogan to the point of making the extremely douchey claim that he "could have turned everything into a crime scene, like OJ, cutting everybody's throat". Of course, since his statements have subsequently received a lot of backlash, Hogan is out to assure the masses that his words were nothing but empathetic. Clearly, there is more to it than that, sir. Read more after the jump!

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Rad Ladies Who Draw Comics: Hellen Jo

Art and Design post by Kjerstin Johnson on April 20, 2009 - 2:26pm; tagged APAture, asian-american artists, comics, female comic artists, Hellen Jo, Stumptown Comics Fest.
This past weekend was the fifth annual Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, and while I won’t spend too much time on the rather decentralized and chill atmosphere of the festival, the focus on independent and alternative comics, and gorgeous weather from the weekend, I would like to showcase some of the women comic artists there! April is Comics Month (at least in this town), so this week I’ll profile one woman comic artist a day who was at this weekend’s fest and who was RAD. It’s called "Rad Ladies Who Draw Comics."

Today is all about Hellen Jo, who was a featured artist at the fest. Bay Area-Based, Jo’s first comic book Jin & Jam, about quirkily disaffected teens navigating San Jose (Jo’s hometown), is out now from SparkPlug comics. Before her big small-press debut, Hellen self-published a three part autobio comic called Komiches Buch a "teenage horror story" called Paralysis: A Romance, and a serial comic Blister. More after the jump!!
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Orgasm, Inc.

Movies post by Deesha Philyaw on April 20, 2009 - 12:34pm; tagged Big Pharma, documentary, film, Health care, Inc., Orgasm, women's health.
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"Forty-three per cent of American women suffer from female sexual dysfunction. Or do they?" Is "female sexual dysfunction" a real disease? Or is it just a marketing ploy invented by Big Pharma in hopes of profiting from "female Viagra"? These are the questions documentary filmmaker Liz Canner set out to answer in Orgasm, Inc.

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Get out on the street and preach the gospel of Bitch!

DigiBitch post by Kelsey Wallace on April 20, 2009 - 12:22pm; tagged awareness, community organizing, friends of Bitch, street teams, subscribe, subscription.
3065184717_d2e16cccd5.jpg We need YOU to help with our Bitch subscription drive! As a Street Team Captain, you’ll have the power to spread the word and cultivate support for the most intelligently sassy feminist media organization around. Interested? Check out the Street Team Kit Questions? Contact Danny.
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Guerrilla Girls: Coming to Portland, and to Bitch!

DigiBitch post by Kelsey Wallace on April 20, 2009 - 11:50am; tagged events, Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture, Guerrilla Girls, PSU.
Next Tuesday, April 28, the amazing Guerrilla Girls are coming to Portland to hang out with us! They are participating in the Bitch/PSU/Willamette Week Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture Lecture Series, but something tells me this is going to be a bit more than just a lecture. Here are some details:



Bitch magazine and PSU’s Women’s Resource Center present
Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture



Guerilla Girls, "Art and Activism" Tuesday, April 28, 7pm

Portland State University (PSU) Smith Memorial Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadway 7:00pm, doors at 6:30pm

Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at the door Students: $7 in advance, $9 at the door w/ID

For tickets: PSU Box Office: 1825 SW Broadway (888) 845-8457 or Ticketmaster: ticketmaster.com

Will we see you there???

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For Realz?: No Cougars, Just Wild

TV post by Rita Hao on April 19, 2009 - 11:13pm; tagged Out of the Wild, reality TV, the Cougar.
I know I should probably be writing about the latest older-lady-younger-man dating reality show the Cougar, but if you want to see an impressive 40-something woman on reality TV, I'd recommend you change the channel from Stacy the needy feline and watch Penny Jo Johnson instead.

Penny Jo, along with eight other people, is starring on the Discovery Channel's Out Of The Wild, where they drop nine people with no backwoods experience into the Alaskan wilderness and see if they can hike their way back to civilization. A sensible, tough 47-year-old "body piercer and landlord" from Kentucky, Penny Jo is also the only one on the adventure with any real hunting experience.

For those of you clicking through to the "read" button for the rest of the post, spoiler alert.

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Dance Your Laugh Off

DigiBitch post by Mandy Van Deven on April 19, 2009 - 10:19pm; tagged fatphobia, reality TV.

Following last week's America's Next Top Model elimination of London because of a 10lb weight gain, I decided to write another post about fat aversion on TV when I came across an announcement for an upcoming show on Oxygen titled Dance Your Ass Off. The show is being dubbed The Biggest Loser meets Dancing with the Stars, and the new reality drama's plot is this: ten women and men between the ages of 21 and 40 get assistance from expert nutritionists and professional dancers in order to compete against each other week after week in a dance competition. The ultimate goal is to lose the most weight. Dance Your Ass Off doesn't debut until June, but tabloid media are already making jokes by calling the show "flabulous".

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