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Briar Levit

Briar Levit

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http://www.briarmade.com/

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Who I am:

Briar Levit is a graphic designer who blends her love of design with social/environmental progress. She first began working with Bitch in 2003 (starting with the Transformation and Reinvention issue). After a grad school hiatus to Central Saint Martins in London, Briar has returned to where she knows she belongs, not only as a designer, but as a feminist and pop culture junkie.

In addition to designing Bitch, Briar is an adjunct graphic design instructor at Portland State University and freelances under the not-so-covert name BriarMade. She works with a number of healthcare, environmental, and educational organizations. Although her roots lie in the San Francisco Bay Area, her design career has taken her to Washington DC, London… and now (permanently?) to Portland, Oregon. When not making printed matter, Briar listens to prog rock, watches lots of British TV shows, and walks with her four-legged creatures in and around Portland.

Forever celebrity crush: Peter Gabriel (Briar thinks she can convince anyone of his brilliance)

Turn-ons: Tempeh and baby-sized Cokes

Turn-offs: Douchebags

Secretly wishes she were a: truck driver

What I'm reading:

The Hobbit, In Defense of Food, Print magazine

Favorite books: Wanderlust (Rebecca Solnit), Ozma of Oz (L. Frank Baum), Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

What I'm listening to:

Music: Miles Davis, The Who, Gabriel-era Genesis, Podcasts: The Bugle, RadioLab

What I'm watching:

Favorite movies: Raising Arizona, The Life of Brian, Hope & Glory

Favorite TV shows: Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, I'm Alan Partridge, The Sopranos, 30 Rock

What blogs I like:

Racialicious

Recent Blog Posts

Feminist women of classic country at Feministe

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 27, 2008 - 1:10pm; tagged: country music, kitty wells, loretta lynn, tammy wynette, wanda jackson.
Go check out this fun post about classic country feminism over at Feministe. There are some great videos that accompany the post as well.
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'Stache-tastic!

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 26, 2008 - 2:55pm; tagged: fashion, gender-bending, moustaches, trend.

Let me preface this by saying, that I don't believe this phenomenon is revolutionary or even very subversive in terms of gender-bending. But it IS a trend I've noticed, and one I can't help but enjoy.

Men have been donning this upper-lip facial hair for a long time, of course. It was a victorian trend, it was a 70's trend and now it looks to be a 2000's trend. But beyond the male moustache resurgance, I've notice a trend by those of us with the double x chromosome make-up. Nowadays fake eyelashes aren't the only false facial hair women are taking advantage of. These days plenty are having fun with the contrast of a traditionally femme appearance in contrast with a striking patch of hair on the lip.

The first time I became aware of this trend was at a New Year's Eve party last year. Someone showed up with a package of fake moustaches and the ladies at in attendance went nuts. We were wearing them all night and everyone looked decidedly cute with their added facial hair.

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Now what movie did I want to tell you about?

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 22, 2008 - 10:32am; tagged: Film Diary, journal, Little Otsu, movies.

I always feel like I'm racking my brain to remember what I've watched recently, and who I'd like to recommend it to. I found this little pocket Film Diary at Little Otsu, a favorite small press of mine based in San Francisco & Portland (full disclosure: I'm currently working on designing a planner with them).

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Muslim women in comic books—an interesting post over at Racialicious

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 21, 2008 - 1:41pm; tagged: comics, dust, Jehanzeb Dar, muslim women, x-men.

Female, Muslim, Mutant: A Critique of Muslim Women in Comic Books, Part 1 of 2 by Racialicous guest contributor, Jehanzeb Dar, was a really interesting read. Check it out!

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Giving new meaning to the term bike 'racks'

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 21, 2008 - 11:16am; tagged: art, bicycles, david byrne, new york city.

This pains me to write, because I adore David Byrne. The man is incredibly inspiring, always active, never resting on his laurels, a great social critic and just plain rockin' (his music made up a big chunk of my 'growing-up' soundtrack). So I was pretty bummed by one of the bike racks he recently created for the New York City (see the full article on The New York Times site). Each rack is in a different shape that relates to the location (for example, a dollar sign on Wall Street). It's a great way to add a little glamor to cycling, which is, of course a great way to use less gasoline, which is a great way to save the planet etc.

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