Who I am:
Andi is the co-founder of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, Andi's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, Utne, BUST, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Women's Review of Books, and Hues. She is a former pop-music columnist for the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, and also contributed to the anthologies Young Wives' Tales, Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (both from Seal Press), and Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit (Crown). She is the coeditor of BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, and recently finished a book about feminism and popular culture for Seal Press. She speaks frequently on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities.
Andi graduated from The Colorado College in 1994 with a B.A. in Fine Art that has proved to be more or less useless, though she did use it to secure a job designing rugs for Pottery Barn back in the day. She passes her non-Bitch hours watching television and embroidering portraits of dogs, often simultaneously. Her other interests include painting, walking, candy, Scrabble, and the interrobang. She blogs sporadically about embroidery and television at www.stitchmagnet.blogspot.com
Fatal weakness: candy, naps
Crushes: Gram Parsons, Steve Buscemi, Hugh Laurie
Turn-ons: clogs, flocked wallpaper, the Winter Olympics
Turnoffs: lip liner, improper punctuation
Secretly wishes she were a: zoo keeper
What I'm reading:
Instinctive Parenting, by Ada Calhoun and The Canon, by Natalie Angier
What I'm listening to:
The Pernice Brothers, A.C. Newman, Belle and Sebastian, and assorted '90s-era mixes.
What I'm watching:
Nurse Jackie, House, Project Runway, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, basketball, dog shows
What blogs I like:
Let me think about it.
