Browse

Twelve years of Bitch wrapped in a friendly interactive interface.

Current search

You're browsing:

Guided search

Content type

Article (1)
Blog entry (2)

3 results

Results

Support curves on screen with Fat Girls Float

Movies post by Kjerstin Johnson, December 4, 2009 - 12:24am; tagged documentary, fat acceptance, fat activism, Fat Girls Float, fat positivity, fundraising, women in film.

Kira Nerusskaya, director of the documentary Fat Girls Float, needs your help to finish its production! Nerusskaya, a New York City native, travelled through several countries and interviewed dozens of people about size discrimination, fat acceptance, activism, and their identity. Check out the six-minute trailer after the jump...

Read

4 comments

Feast of Burden

The transgressive, disturbing world of 'feeding' porn

Article by Jessica Hester, Illustrated by Jungyeon Roh, appeared in issue Consumed; published in 2009; filed under Consumer culture; tagged consumption, eating, eroticism, fat acceptance, fat phobia, feeding porn, fetishization, obesity, porn.

Ivy doesn’t look like most performers in mainstream pornography. Then again, the thousands of viewers who have logged on to watch her YouTube videos or look at her photo sets aren’t seeking mainstream adult entertainment. While most porn stars and pinups show off their tits and ass, Ivy shows off her big belly, the body part fetishized in the niche genre of feeding porn.

Read

120 comments

Drop Dead Diva: Sunday Night's Big Comedy

DigiBitch post by Mandy Van Deven, July 11, 2009 - 3:56pm; tagged Brooke Elliot, Drop Dead Diva, fat acceptance, fat positivity, Margaret Cho, television.

Margaret Cho explores body image and self-love in her new television series Drop Dead Diva. I recently watched the pilot episode and spoke to Cho about her involvement in the show. The first person to be cast, Cho believes DDD has the opportunity to reach a diverse audience with the message that fat women’s beauty is not just internal.

Read

9 comments