I was in high school when I discovered feminist media and I’ve subscribed to Bitch Magazine since then.
It’s a “feminist response to pop culture” filled with a range of informational and critique articles on political issues, social & cultural issues and any other issue the regular and special contributors feel like. Each issue is vaguely themed, and all are filled with interesting, entertaining and thought provoking articles. I don’t always agree with what I read in Bitch, but I think that’s a good thing because it gives me a chance to reflect on the varieties of feminisms and feminist issues. At any rate, I love this magazine and I consider it a feminist duty to support feminist and women run, women centered media. I want you all, my dear readers, to subscribe to Bitch and give them a little bonus donation. They are non profit and they’re going to go under in October if we don’t support them! The last thing we need on top of a McCain-Palin administration would be a media with fewer feminist media outlets and less feminist news coverage & analysis and feminist critique of culture.
First the bad news: The print publishing industry as a whole is staring into a void. Across the board, newsstand magazine sales are in a slump, subscriber numbers are down, and paper and postal costs continue to rise. But it’s not magazines like US Weekly or Vogue that you’ll see disappearing from the newsstands—they have the parent companies and the resources to weather industry ill winds. It’s the small, independent magazines like Bitch that will disappear, because the odds are already stacked high against us. And simply put: We need to raise $40,000 by October 15th in order to print the next issue of Bitch.
Now the good news: While it’s true that $40,000 is a lot of money, we know the number of you Bitch supporters is in the hundreds of thousands. And we’re asking each of you who values independent, nonprofit media and intelligent feminist cultural analysis to contribute what you can to ensure that Bitch thrives. And while we can’t say what form Bitch will take in the future (our direction will depend, in part, on your feedback), we can say that we’ve been hard at work to find an innovative publishing model that will allow us to maintain the spirit and integrity of Bitch while also reflecting the changing world around us.
So, feminist readers, this is a call to rally around a long-standing, non profit source of feminist media.
Go Now! Bitch Magazine
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