
Oh the things that make up New Year's Eve: chintzy eye-glasses, countless top ten lists, nosiemakers...emergency contraception? According to the National Institute for Reproductive Health, sales for emergency contraception more than double in the first days after the New Year...

In which I continue to make a feminist case for my sports fandom the old-fashioned way--with a Top Ten List. It's coming to you in a series of posts...

The awesome Detroit MC Invincible (interviewed in The Loud issue) has a brand new documentary out about women in hip hop...

Bitch Magazine Any nominations for our Significant Feminist Moments of the Decade roundup? Music? Movies? TV? Books? Other? Let us know!

As the year winds down the media stream is inundated with lists of political accomplishments, policy and presidential reviews and all of our hopes for 2010...

Bitch Magazine Is the "boozy grandma" archetype progressive at all in terms of gender/age-related stereotypes? Or is it just another way to typecast female actors over the age of 45?
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In the same way a Christmas playlist is incomplete without a tipsy, eggnog-drinking grandmother having an unfortunate accident with reindeer, the melodrama of certain shows and films improves when a boozy grandmother is written in.

One of the things that drives me just a little bit up the wall about disability in pop culture is when creators want to have a disabled character, but don't want that character to have any of the actual consequences of being disabled...

The sad news came down just a few weeks ago: It Takes a Team, the pioneering project of the Women's Sports Foundation dedicated to challenging homophobia in sports, has been canceled due to budget cuts...

Is cable TV access is a feminist issue? My mom posed the question, possibly to see if I can construct an argument that might persuade her household to spring for the extended digital basic. I suspect the long nights watching the ION channel are beginning to grate...

Forgive the lateness of the hour -- I had to drag myself from the A Christmas Story marathon to heed the call of duty. Which reminds me: I like the holiday season, but I will be so glad when the holiday commercials cease...

Mixing classics with covers, the Bitch staff has put together some of our favorite Christmas songs that span decades, genres, and levels of corniness. From the Loretta Lynn to Kristy MacColl and from Kinks to David Cassidy, you're sure to hear something you'll like...

A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, has become a Christmas classic. Chances are high that most of us have read it, read adaptations, seen it performed on stage, or seen it on film...

As this year winds down and the television channels lay fallow before the January kick-off, there's not a lot for a dedicated TV-watcher to do except see which show marathon on which channel will likely suck away six hours of your day if you're careful...

Whenever someone starts talking about "crip-drag" - the slang term that basically means "currently non-disabled actor playing a disabled character" - the conversation tends to eventually (usually sooner, rather than later) turns to this: But but but...











