Ad interventions

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 18, 2008 - 12:44pm; tagged body positivity, eating disorders, fat acceptance, fat activism, glossy magazines, offensive advertising, women's magazines.

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"Basically, I just want people to see what it would be like if plus-size models were represented similarly to slim models." -- Kristin Lou Herout. 

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Girls make media

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 18, 2008 - 11:34am; tagged girl media, girls, Girls Make Media, media creation, zines.

Passing on the news of a recently-launched website dedicated to honoring and mobilizing girls' media production called Girls Make Media. Creator Mary Celeste Kearney is hoping the site will become a resource for girls, as well as media educators, researchers, and others dedicated to amplifying the voices of girls.

Looks like it's off to a good start -- please check it out, spread the word, contribute... 

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Bitch in Salt Lake City

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 16, 2008 - 12:35pm; tagged Feminism In/Action, friends of Bitch, fundraising, independent bookstores, on the road, outreach, Salt Lake City, SLUG magazine.

frosty darling

Back to the most recent Bitch fundraising trip...

I'd never been to Salt Lake City before, so I was excited to check it out.  After a long drive in from Denver, I was even more excited to be greeted by a plate of vegan cookies, freshly-baked by our host, Courtney Maguire (thanks, Courtney!). Courtney is one of the folks involved with the Female Empwerment Movement (FEM), a new(ish) feminist group created in response to the high rates of sexual violence in Salt Lake. FEM also helped organize and get the word out of the evening's events, and I'm grateful. 

I'm also grateful to Angela Brown, Meghann Griggs, and the rest of the folks at SLUG magazine, who responded almost immediately to our call for assistance in helping put together the discussion and fundraiser in Salt Lake. SLUG was founded in 1989 and remains Utah's oldest alternative paper. 

 

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Ever wonder why we're called B-Word?

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 15, 2008 - 1:22pm; tagged bitch, Bitch history, offensive language, the word bitch.

In my shock at seeing a Wal-Mart ad on the Mother Jones website, I neglected to include a link to the article I was searching for in the first place, which is the story of the California Secretary of State's office rejecting the name Bitch Publications on the grounds that it was obscene. 

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Mary Harris Jones must be turning in her grave

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 15, 2008 - 11:54am; tagged independent magazines, independent publishing horrors, Wal-Mart, WTF?.

who needs

I've been debating whether I should post this for a few days, but I've decided I must.  

Earlier this week, I went to the Mother Jones website to find an old article I wanted to post here. But my search was interrupted when I saw an ad for Wal-Mart pop up.

An ad for Wal-Mart on the website of a magazine that calls itself:   

An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.

 

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