Oct 18 2008
The Bitch is Back!
In September 2008 Bitch Magazine put out the following statement appealing for funds to allow them to continue publishing
“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.”
So October 15th has been and gone - did they come up with the money?
YES!
And by an overwhelming amount!
Winnie the wiener dog hit $46,000 in the first 3 days and is currently displaying a figure of over $70,000.
Bitch Magazine is an American independant, nonprofit, quarterly publication dedicated to providing a Feminist response to popular culture.
Ive noticed in the last few years more mainstream women’s “fashion” magazines are starting to run a better selection of serious and intelligent articles. I can only put this shift down to the emegence of magazines like Bitch. Women are screaming out for some competition and variety in magazine publishing. The industry is starting to realise that 50 tips on achieving an orgasm or snaring a man just doesnt cut it when women all over the world are having their human rights, civil rights, and reproductive rights violated!
I hope Bitch Magazine continues to go strong and attract generous donations.
I also hope the likes of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire etc take a leaf out of Bitch’s book and smarten up their content to appeal to a more diverse cross-section of women - I for one am fed up with the assumption that women wont read substantial and well-researched articles.
Personally I buy magazines for the articles not the pictures!
