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Issue 19 | Winter 2003
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Fame & Obscurity

Margaret Cho, Fame 'N' Feminism, Reluctant Groupies. Plus: Punk Pinups: Pro or Con?

In every issue

Editor's Letter — Living in oblivion
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
Where to Bitch
The Bitch List
Bitch Reads — but first: When famous kids publish
Suggested Listening — but first: Princess Superstar
Back Page — The Street Harassment Project

Columns

||| Everybody Wing Chun tonight
||| Another one rides the bus
||| Lady journalists stick it to 'em
||| Newsprint chivalry

Features

||| Secretary's Day-Taking a letter with screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson
||| Star Search — What happens when feminism and fame collide?
||| Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire — On vicarious celebrity
||| Wheel to Power — The changing role of disability on network drama
||| Cho 'Nuff — An interview with Margaret Cho
||| Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo — The web's new alternaporn
||| The Revolution Will Not Be Sanitized — The new politics of housework
||| Queens of the Iron Age — On the New Feminist Hygiene Products

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    Art/See
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    Consumed
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    Buzz
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    Noir
  • 41
    Loud
  • 40
    Genesis
  • 39
    Wired
  • 38
    Lost & Found
  • 37
    Singular + Plural
  • 36
    Risk
  • 35
    Super
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    Green
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    Hot & Bothered
  • 32
    Style & Substance
  • 31
    Anniversary
  • 30
    Fun & Games
  • 29
    Truth & Consequences
  • 28
    Masculinity
  • 27
    Home & Away
  • 26
    Fake
  • 25
    Labor & Love
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    Smart
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    Taste & Appetite
  • 22
    Family
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    Maturity & Immaturity
  • 20
    Obsessions
  • 19
    Fame & Obscurity
  • 18
    Transformation & Reinvention
  • 17
    Pink
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    Insider/Outsider
  • 15
    Is Biology Destiny?
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    Music
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    Interview
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    Issue #12
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    Issue #11
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    Issue #10
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    Fighting Back
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    Orange
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    Puberty
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