Issue 43 | Spring 2009
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Contributors

Sarah Henderson photographed the cover. You can see more of her work at www.sirenapictures.com.

Latoya Peterson, Veronica Arreola, Katie Gaughan, Jonanna Widner, Erica Lies, Suzanne Carlson, Janet Miller, Tina Kozik, Kelsey Wallace, Tammy Oler, Kari Lydersen, Jen Angel, Heather Seggel, Kjerstin Johnson, Martha Polk, Jess Hoffman, Kyla Wagener, Ashley Brittner, Debbie Rasmussen, Omar Lee, Belin Liu, Katura Reynolds, Shira Tarrant, James Hindle, Jenn Pozner, Kiersten Essenpries, Audrey Bilger, Jyoti Roy, Brittany Shoot, Eryn Loeb, Mandy Van Deven, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Catherine Scott, Chloe Tribich, Anna Blackmon Moore, Ellen Papazian, Jim Burlingame, Kimberly Chun, Claire Ashton, Matthue Roth, Lois Leveen

Buzz

Sex, Bugs, and Rock 'n' Roll, Good Vibes, Bad TV, and more!

In every issue

Editors' Interns' Letter

Letters & Comments

Love It/Shove It

Bitch In

Books—Bitch reads.

Music—Suggested listening.

The Back Page—Great moments in feminism—thumbprint-style!

Columns

||| On The Page—Minxed feelings.

||| On Activism—An Interview with Resistance Behind Bars author Victoria Law.

||| On TV—How to market a vibrator without mentioning sex.

Features

::: The Rachel Papers—What a hot, smart, lesbian pundit means for an uneasy America.

::: Wings of Desire—Bug sex as gender revolution.

::: Guy Trouble—Are young men really in crisis, or are these boys just done being boys?

::: Unravelling Reality TV's Twisted Fairy Tales—An excerpt from the upcoming book Reality Bites Back looks at the truth behind the tiaras.

::: Mapping Home—An interview with first-time novelist Randa Jarrar.