Star light, star [Susie] Bright!

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 12, 2008 - 2:24pm; tagged Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture, lecture series, sexuality, Susie Bright.

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Writer, teacher, audio-show host, performer, and all-around badass feminist Susie Bright is speaking this Tuesday as a continuing part of the Bitch Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture lecture series!

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Alice Walker on Democracy Now!

Love / Shove post by Kjerstin Johnson on November 11, 2008 - 4:55pm; tagged Alice Walker, Barack Obama, politics.
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On today's installment of Democracy Now, you can catch Alice Walker reading her open letter to Barack Obama, originally published on The Root. Videocast and transcript after the jump.
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Sad: Mama Miriam Makeba dies

Love / Shove post by Jonanna Widner on November 10, 2008 - 6:29pm;
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Adventures in Feministory!

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 10, 2008 - 2:01pm; tagged Anne Hutchinson, colonies, feministory, puritans, religion.

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Each week, a few brave souls here at Bitch jump into our feminist time machine and travel back, back, back in time to pay homage (femage?) to a feminist pioneer of the past. Join us this week as we journey to the year 1637 and gain a bit of feminist insight into the life of Massachusetts Bay Colonist Anne Hutchinson.

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"Douchebag"

Love / Shove post by Jonanna Widner on November 10, 2008 - 12:33pm;
We figured there would be some reaction to our use of the term "douchebag." Just to be clear, we did not choose the term lightly. When we had our blog meeting last week, many terms were bandied about for our new weekly awards, including "schmuck", "putz," and a few others.

We decided on douchebag, and here's the logic behind why we consider it both appropriate and non-misogynist:

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Weekend Rhymes

Love / Shove post by Jonanna Widner on November 7, 2008 - 5:37pm; tagged 2008 election, gender, General nerditry, Maddow, Palin, poetry.
Whoo-hoo, it's the weekend! I know, I know, the 40-hour work-week is a patriarchal construct, so celebrating weekends is merely playing into the system—but tell that to my bar tab...
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Nobody's Baby Now

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 7, 2008 - 4:35pm; tagged birth control, fathers, mothers, parenting, the Netherlands.
The Netherlands may be known throughout the world for their quaint wooden shoes and their progressive drug and prostitution laws, but soon they might be known for something else: forced sterilization of women. You read me right, a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament will, if passed, force women deemed to be "unfit mothers" to take oral contraception for a period of two years.
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