Tracy + The Plastics is a one-woman performance art music project that spanned from 1999 to 2006. Its sole driving force, Wynne Greenwood, dreamt up the premise for the project from a murder mystery movie she was writing, and it morphed into a seven year exploration of feminist, queer and political issues using low budget video and simple yet pulsing electronica. Read (and listen! and watch!) more after the jump..
When Bitch released our Loud issue way back in September, our Pop Culture Debate Club at our local feminist bookstore and community center (slash last-standing feminist non-profit outpost!) In Other Words had chips and salsa, small dogs, and no lack of heated debate....over who was the greatest female rocker OF ALL TIME.
While no one can say Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders isn't a total bad-ass, an unlikely argument was made for one Mariah Carey as the ultimate lady rocker and would you believe me if I said I wasn't just a little convinced? Chelsea Morrisey made the claim, and is on her way to rockstardom herself as a founding member and frontwoman of the emerging Portland band Dirty Mittens,who I had the chance to see the other night! MP3s and more after the jump!
I just wanted to share that one of our super talented contributors, Jennifer Cruté (who appeared in the Dark Confession comics feature of the Noir Issue), features heavily in this lovely short documentary, KAPOW! The New Comic Book Heroines. Unfortunately, Current.com won't allow embedding of video, so just click on the still to view!
The groundswell of support that Angela Davis received after her
wrongful imprisonment in 1970 (based on trumped up murder charges in connection
with the Black Panthers’ attempt to free three black prisoners from a
correctional facility in Soledad, California) was enough to get her
acquitted 18 months later by an all-white jury. The involvement of her
close friend Bettina Aptheker in particular is an awesome story of
sisterhood and solidarity, and is the focus of this week’s Adventures
in Feministory.
On Monday night, Kanye West will be the featured performer on VH1's Storytellers, the show that gets songwriters to perform in an intimate setting, in the hopes that they will open up to the audience and explain a bit about their creative process, or whatever else might be on their mind. For anyone acquainted with Kanye (who happens to write the most prolific celebrity blog on the web), you know you don't need much to get him talking. The results are always uncensored and frequently entertaining. But what you won't see on the show are a few choice comments that ended up on the cutting room floor, one or two in particular that should give any feminist pause. Read more after the jump.
One of my tasks here at Bitch headquarters is to open the mail
and keep an inventory of the books and CDs that are coming in for
possible review. Today I arrived at the office, tired and doped up on
DayQuil, needing a basket in which to place all of my angsty eggs and I
found that basket in this week's *Most Ridiculous Book To Be Shipped To Bitch For Possible Review In Our Magazine*.
I'll admit, I had a minor freak out over what music to post for my BitchTapes. But I was reminded of the impact that Bratmobile had had on my 15-years-old self and decided to go with an all ladies all the time mix (each band featured has at least one female member). So listen and read away!
On Monday night, Kanye West will be the featured performer on VH1's Storytellers, the show that gets songwriters to perform in an intimate setting, in the hopes that they will open up to the audience and explain a bit about their creative process, or whatever else might be on their mind. For anyone acquainted with Kanye (who happens to write the most 
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