Facebook Adwoa Afful Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg onstage at the F8 conference 2014 (Mike Deerkoski/Wikimedia Commons) Adwoa Afful is Bitch Media’s 2019 Writing Fellow in Technology This post is the second in a two-part series about organizing on Facebook and its implications for digital social justice. Click here to read part one. A few weeks back, […]
Krutika Mallikarjuna The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman (Little, Brown and Company) To her credit, the name listed on her Tinder profile was her middle name, Anita. And to mine, Anita was every queer girl’s dream. She looked like she just walked out of an audition for Eliza […]
nonmonogamy Sarah Mirk This story was originally published on November 17, 2016. Margaret Jacobsen writes beautifully on a bunch of different difficult topics. For example, last December, Margaret, who is Black and lives in Portland, Oregon, did an experiment where she kept track of all the racist things people said to her over the course […]
The Micro/Macro Issue, Ava DuVernay, Oscars Nijla Mu'min This article appears in our 2013 Summer issue, Micro/Macro. Subscribe today! At the 2012 Sundance Awards, writer-director Ava DuVernay won the prestigious Directing Award for Middle of Nowhere, a feature film about Ruby, a quietly bold nurse who, after her husband is incarcerated, undergoes a personal transformation that forces her […]
pornography Brooklyn White Shine Louise Houston directs Amani Luxe and Cinnamon Maxxine on CrashPadSeries.com. Photography by Tristan Crane San Francisco–based director Shine Louise Houston is changing the way we think about porn. Her pornography company, Pink and White Productions, intentionally features queer people of color and allows all actors to make decisions about the scenes […]
Valentine's Day s.e. smith A young couple being intimate (Photo credit: Lula Hyers/Refinery29 for Getty Images) With its annual reification of heteronormative culture, its cheesy pink and red decorations, its twee roses, and its inevitable dashed expectations, Valentine’s Day is the Hallmark holiday that everyone—even the straights—loves to hate. Each February brings a million thinkpieces […]
Bitch 50, empathy Soleil Ho This story was originally published on February 16, 2018. Popaganda is back! In this episode, we’re going to be talking about an emotion you’ve probably heard a lot about lately: empathy. The way we talk about it, it’s almost like a superpower: it’s like we want to believe that the […]
internet culture s.e. smith This story was originally published on February 12, 2018. In mid-January, a man needed some advice about a little love problem, so he turned to the most logical source: reddit. r/relationships, a subreddit dedicated solely to doling out relationship advice, has almost 1 million readers, and as the kids say, it […]
Valentine's Day, divorce Ben Marks This story was originally published on February 12, 2014. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so naturally our thoughts turn to divorce. That’s the odds-even outcome of marriage, if you believe the oft-cited statistic that half of all nuptials in the United States will end up on the rocks. In fact, the […]
The Blue Issue Hallie Lieberman This article appears in our 2015 Summer issue, Blue. Subscribe today! Since we live in an age when any woman can waltz into Target and emerge bearing a shopping bag full of Fifty Shades of Grey–branded cock rings, Trojan vibrators, and strawberry lube, it’s hard to imagine that sex toys were […]