If you subscribe to Bitch magazine, your copy should be in your mailbox or swiftly making its way there. For everyone else, our new issue Micro/Macro is available to buy online today. We chose five articles from the issue to post online for free—check them out and feel free to buy the whole issue!

FROM MICRO/MACRO: 

• All Hail the Queen: Writer Tamara Winfrey Harris digs into race, womanhood, and perceptions of Beyonce's feminism in article that friend-of-Bitch Cheryl Strayed called, "So wise, perceptive, deep and dead on it made my heart thump." It features the great portrait of Beyonce seen above by artist Irana Douer.

• Rise of the Penis Pinata: A brief history of the big business of bachelorette parties. 

• Sized Up: Anna Mollow—the co-editor of Sex and Disability—explains why fatness is a queer and feminist issue.

• Gaming the System: Fans have pushed for better and more female characters in video games, but some of the most promising game ideas are dead on arrival. 

• Written Off: Black female screenwriters have penned some amazing films, but are routinely ignored by the Academy Awards.

Oh, hi, Monday. Here's all the feminist news I'm reading today: 

• A string of new movies write a greedy new American Dream: AO Scott writes a great piece on The Great Gatsby, The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers, and Pain and Gain as "fables of acquisition." [New York Times]

• A Greenwich Village hate crime: A man in New York gunned down a stranger this week, apparently because the victim was gay. [The Advocate] 

• Female artists took home a pile of prizes at the Billboard Music Awards, including big wins for Taylor Swift and Rihanna. [Guardian] 

• Spelling out the specific stigmas against women in power saying they have mental illness. [The Frisky]  

• How do you challenge censorship in prison? [The American Reader] 

• A Yale scholar offers a new, in-depth look at rape during the Civil War. [Women Under Siege] 

• Is tree-sitting terrorism? Proposed laws in Oregon would make certain non-violent environmental protests a felony. [Vice] 

• Feministing has a rundown of ways anyone can support domestic workers who are organizing themselves for rights. [Feministing]

• Sailor Moon turned femininity into a literal weapon: In praise of "magical girl" TV shows. [Autostraddle]  

• Boobs on Facebook: They're only banned if they're real, says Facebook. [Daily Beast] 

What's on your radar? Post other good reads to the comments.