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Timothy Gray approved Hilary B’s request to change the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 days ago.
- Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle Gym (Primary Editor)
- Added a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' Norma (Primary Editor)
- Added a contributor: Margaret Cho: (Foreword)
- Added a contributor: Keidra Chaney: Sister Outsider Headbanger (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Tammy Oler: Bloodlettng (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Gus Andrews: The, Like, Downfall of the English Language (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Gabrielle Moss: Teen Mean Fighting Machine (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Leigh Shoemaker: Urinalysis (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Vanessa Veselka: The Collapsible Woman (Contributor)
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Timothy Gray approved Hilary B’s request to change the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 days ago.
- Added a contributor: Lisa Jervis: (Primary Editor)
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Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- Edited a contributor: Julia Serano: Skirt Chasers (~~None~~Contributor)
- Edited a contributor: Jennifer Newens: The Paradox of Martha Stewart (~~None~~Contributor)
- Edited a contributor: Lisa Moricoli Latham: Double Life (~~None~~Contributor)
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Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle ~~Gym~~Gym; Hot and Bothered; Prat-fall (Primary Editor)
- Edited a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' ~~Norma~~Norma; Laugh Riot; Plastic Passion; Prat-fall; Marketing Miss Right (Primary Editor)
- Added a contributor: Karen Eng: The Princess and the Prankster (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Athena Douris: What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Diane Anderson-Minshall: What Happens to a Dyke Deferred?; I Kissed a Girl (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Audrey Bilger: On Language: You Guys (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Julia Serano: Skirt Chasers (None)
- Added a contributor: Danya Ruttenberg: Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Keely Savoie: Screen Butch Blues; Unnatural Selection (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Brendan O'Sullivan: Dead Man Walking (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Rita Hao: And Now a Word from Our Sponsors; Prat-fall (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Julie Craig: I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism! (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Rachel Fudge: Celebrity Jeopardy; Girl, Unreconstructed; Bias Cut (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Summer Wood: On Language: Choice (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Amy Harter: In Re-Mission (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Heather Seggel: I Heard It Through the Loveline (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Carson Brown: The New Sexual Deviant (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Anna Mills: Envy, A Love Story (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Noy Thrupkaew: Fan/Tastic Voyage; The God of Big Trends (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Jennifer Maher: Hot for Teacher (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Don Romesburg: Holy Fratrimony (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Jennifer Newens: The Paradox of Martha Stewart (None)
- Added a contributor: Lisa Moricoli Latham: Double Life (None)
- Added a contributor: Margaret Price: Queer and Pleasant Danger (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Monica Nolan: Mother Inferior (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Sarah McCormick: Hoovers and Shakers (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Julia Scheeres: Vulva Goldmine (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Marisa Meltzer: Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Busting the Beige Barrier (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Beth Berstein: Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Matilda St. John: Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Aimee Dowl: Beyond the Bearded Lady (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Lori L. Tharps: The Black and the Beautiful (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Shauna Schwartz: XXX Offender (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Kathy Bruin: Please Don't Feed the Models (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Laura Barcella: Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Rebecca Hyman: Full Frontal Offense (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Anne Elizabeth Moore: Meet Anne (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Jennifer L. Pozner: How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media (Contributor)
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Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- Edited a contributor: Lisa Jervis: Rubyfruit Jungle Gym (Primary Editor)
- Added a contributor: Andi Zeisler: Amazon Women on the Moon; Stormin' Norma (Primary Editor)
- Added a contributor: Margaret Cho: (Foreword)
- Added a contributor: Keidra Chaney: Sister Outsider Headbanger (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Tammy Oler: Bloodlettng (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Gus Andrews: The, Like, Downfall of the English Language (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Gabrielle Moss: Teen Mean Fighting Machine (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Leigh Shoemaker: Urinalysis (Contributor)
- Added a contributor: Vanessa Veselka: The Collapsible Woman (Contributor)
Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
Hilary B edited the contributors of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- Added a contributor: Lisa Jervis: (Primary Editor)
Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Hilary B’s edits | report abuse )
Hilary B edited the table of contents of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- I. Forward
  II. Introduction
  III. Chapter 1: Hitting Puberty
  1. Amazon Women on the Moon: Remembering Femininity in the Video Age
  2. Rubyfruit Jungle Gym: An Annotated Bibliography of the Lesbian Young Adult Novel
  3. Stormin' Norma: Why I Love the Queen of Teen
  4. Sister Outsider Headbanger: On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead
  5. Bloodletting: Female Adolescence in Modern Horror Films
  6. The, Like, Downfall of the English Language: A Fluffy Word with a Hefty Problem
  7. Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls?
  VI. Chapter 2: Ladies and Gentlemen: Femininity, Masculinity, and Identity
  8. Urinalysis: On Standing Up to Pee
  9. The Collapsible Woman: Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse
  10. The Princess and the Prankster: Two Performers Take on Art, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
  11. What Happens to a Dyke Deferred? The Trouble with Hasbians and the Phenomenon of Banishment
  12. On Language: You Guys
  13. Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Dresses the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels
  14. Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down: On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem
  15. Screen Butch Blues: The Celluloid Fate of Female Masculinity
  16. Dead Man Walking: Masculinity's Troubling Persistence
  V. Chapter 3: The F-Word
  17. And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Feminism for Sale
  18. I Can't Believe It's Not Feminism! On the Feminists Who Aren't
  19. Celebrity Jeopardy: The Perils of Feminist Fame
  20. Unnatural Selection: Questioning Science's Gender Bias
  21. On Language: Choice
  22. Laugh Riot: Feminism and the Problem of Women's Comedy
  23. Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism
  VI. Chapter 4: Desire: Love, Sex and Marketing
  24. In Re-Mission: Why Does Redbook Want to Keep Us on Our Backs?
  25. Hot and Bothered: Unmasking Male Lust
  26. I Heard It Through the Loveline: And Misinformation Just Might Make Me Lose My Mind
  27. The New Sexual Deviant: Mapping Virgin Territory
  28. Envy, a Love Story: Queering Female Jealousy
  29. Fan/Tastic Voyage: Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wide World of Slash Fiction
  30. Hot for Teacher: On the Erotics of Pedagogy
  31. Holy Fratimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality
  V. Chater 5: Domestic Arrangements
  32. The Paradox of Martha Stewart: Goddess, Desperate Spouse-Seeker, or Feminist Role Model?
  33. Double Life: Everyone Wants to See Your Breasts--Until Your Baby Needs Them
  34. Queer and Pleasant Danger: What's Up with the Mainstreaming of Gay Parents?
  35. Mother Inferior: How Hollywood Keeps Single Moms in Their Place
  36. Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout
  VI. Chapter 6: Beauty Myths and Body Projects
  37. Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling's Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism
  38. Vulva Goldmine: The New Culture of Vaginal Reconstruction
  39. Are Fat Suits the New Blackface? Hollywood's Big New Minstrel Show
  40. Busting the Beige Barrier: The Limits of "Ethnic" Cosmetics
  41. Your Stomach's the Size of a Peanut, So Shut Up, Already: An Open Letter to Carnie Wilson
  42. Beyond the Bearded Lady: Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair
  VII. Chater 7: Confronting the Mainstream
  43. Pratt-fall: Ten Things to Hate About Jane
  44. Marketing Miss Right: Meet the Single Girl, Twenty-First-Century Style
  45. The God of Big Trends: Book Publishing's Ethnic Cool Quotient
  46. The Black and the Beautiful: Searching for Signs of Black Life in Prime-Time Comedy
  47. I Kissed a Girl: The Evolution of the Prime-Time Lesbian Clinch
  48. XXX Offender: Reality Porn and the Rise of Humilitainment
  49. Bias Cut: Old Racism as New Fashion
  VIII. Chapter 8: Talking Back: Activism and Pop Culture
  50. Please Don't Feed the Models: A Day in the Life of an Urban Guerilla
  51. Refuse and Resist with Jean Kilbourne: How to Counteract Ad Messages
  52. Full Frontal Offense: Bringing Abortion Rights to the Ts
  53. Meet Anne: A Spunky, Adventurous American Girl
  54. How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media: A Feminist Advocacy Guide
  IX. The BITCHfest Resource List
  X. About the Contributors
  XI. Acknowledgments
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Hilary B edited the first sentence of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 2 weeks ago.
- Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment.
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Shelfari edited the description of BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Saturday, August 1 2009.
- In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms . , Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women’s lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today it stands as a touchstone of hip, young feminist thought, looking with both wit and irreverence at the way pop culture informs feminism—and vice versa—and encouraging readers to think critically about the messages lurking behind our favorite television shows, movies, music, books, blogs, and the like. BITCHFest offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from the magazine’s first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for the collection. Smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous, and clear-eyed, the anthology covers everything from a 1996 celebration of pre-scandal Martha Stewart to a more recent critical look at the "gayby boom"; from a time line of black women on sitcoms to an analysis of fat suits as the new blackface; from an attempt to fashion a feminist vulgarity to a reclamation of female virginity. It’s a recent history of feminist pop-culture critique and an arrow toward feminism’s future.
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