Tuesday, January 31, 2006

happy birthday, you bitches.

imagine my delight in coming home after a long day at work and discovering the latest edition of Bitch magazine on my coffee table. and their 10th Birthday issue, to boot!

i had gotten a few email newsletters and updates here and there, so i was aware that their 10th year mark was coming up, but browsing through this issue really brought home what an accomplishment this milestone is for a magazine like Bitch. it's a cold, hard world out there in magazine publishing, and even more so if you're determined not to depend on advertisers that will hopelessly dilute and/or openly contradict any attempts at feminist analysis. so i just want to take a moment to publicly thank Bitch for being a little feminist lifeline in my life - for being the one magazine that i am always happy to see. though i may not always agree with some of the writers or the ideas found within its pages, Bitch is a welcome respite from so much other media that assumes i have the attention span of an eight year old and an I.Q. roughly equivalent to my waist size.

if you don't have a subscription yourself, well christ on a bike, what are you waiting for? go get one!

1 comment:

Roni said...

Yay!

Ella has to pick up the mail and sort it. She was super slow today. And I could see the issue peeking out from the bottom of the mail pile. I was like a 2-year-old waiting for a cookie. ha!