sugar babies The New Romantic Sofia Barrett-Ibarria Jessica Barden as Blake in The New Romantic (Elevation Pictures) In Carly Stone’s feature-film debut, The New Romantic, Blake (Jessica Barden), a college student who writes a lackluster sex column for her school’s newspaper, befriends her classmate Morgan (Camila Mendes), who moonlights as a sugar baby—a woman who […]
Abby Minor Abby Minor is Bitch Media’s 2018 Writing Fellow in Sexual Politics This morning, The Supreme Court declined to review cases in Kansas and Louisiana that challenged lower-court opinions determining that states cutting off public funding for Planned Parenthood violate federal law. The decision feels like a rare victory in a time when states […]
Holiday Black This story was originally published on February 18, 2016. Over the past 20 years, the internet has changed the age-old profession of sex work in major ways. Sex workers labor in an intensely hostile cultural climate. Due to the illegal nature of their jobs, they are vulnerable to rape, murder, theft, and police […]
The Family Values Issue Katie Presley This story was originally published on March 3, 2017. Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson writes close-up, intimate songs that capture the fleeting images, feelings and memories that make up a life. She was therefore the perfect choice to create a playlist about the intimacy of family ties, and her thoughtful selections […]
Popaganda Soleil Ho This story was originally published on June 8, 2018. Almost half of millennials do freelance work—that is, they work as contract laborers, often in fields like writing, design, and computer programming—and the majority of those workers are women. The idea of ditching the office, the 9 to 5, and the butthead coworkers […]
#metoo Tarana Burke Caroline Reilly Tarana Burke gives a TED Talk in 2018 (Photo credit: TED) For many of us, the fact of rampant sexual violence has always been an open secret. Women and and others who experience sexual harassment and violence survivors operated in whisper networks, warning each other of unsafe people and places. […]
Bitch 50 Bitch HQ Illustration by Jessica De Jesus Pop culture is an evolving landscape that is populated by artists, entertainers, visionaries, activists, and political figures. At Bitch Media, we’re interested in shape-shifters who push pop culture to be more representative, inspiring, and meaningful for communities who are typically ignored by mainstream media. We’re paying attention […]
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts Johnny Depp JK Rowling s.e. smith Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore in The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros.) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, a.k.a. grimdark Harry Potter, opened on November 16 to tepid reviews, including a 40 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, and the worst […]
bitch interview Jordannah Elizabeth Britteney Black Rose Kapri (Haymarket Books) Britteney Black Rose Kapri is the unapologetic author of the poetry collection, Black Queer Hoe, which began as a series of declarations on her personal twitter feed. Her phrase “Pro Black, Pro Queer, Pro Hoe,â€� quickly became the Chicago-based poet’s general ethos for the way […]
HIV AIDs Evette Dionne This story was originally published on December 1, 2017. It has 36 years since the first official diagnosis of HIV, and in that time, the disease has taken the lives of more than 35 million people. Over 36 million people currently live with HIV around the world, and as we’ve gotten […]