Bitch Magazine Needs Help

Chris — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:54:19 -0700

This item seems to have become so well-distributed since I saw it yesterday that it feels almost redundant to write it up, but for those of you who haven't seen it yet: Bitch magazine is in severe economic straits. They need to raise $40k by October 15 if they're going to put out the next issue of the magzine.

It's kind of stating the obvious that feminism right now would look a lot different if Bitch hadn't been around for the last twelve years. Ms. Magazine has, in my opinion, been irrelevant and out of touch for years, and even though I still sometimes find a certain bourgeois priggishness towards sexuality in some of their articles, Bitch in general has been indispensible in keeping a vital, accessible discussion about gender, politics, and pop culture going. It would be a shame to lose it. Read more here and donate here.

"Glamour Photography" Issue Posted Online

Chris — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:04:31 -0700

Via Boing Boing, the repository of all that is weird and eccentric on the Internetz, I found this interesting piece of our sexual past: a Russian site that has scanned an entire issue of an old girlie mag from 1957 called Glamour Photography. It's an enormous site, and if you're not on broadband it's going to take a while for it to load. Even on broadband, it needs a little patience, but if you like this sort of thing, it's worth giving it a chance. I love these kinds of artifacts; besides the eroticism, the history of sex is so poorly preserved that every little bit that does get saved is like reading a secret diary, and especially when it's the full thing, not just pictures in a Taschen anthology. In this particular magazine, as in many of the time, I feel a massive disconnect between the pictures

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Bitch Magazine Needs Help

"Glamour Photography" Issue Posted Online