For Immediate Release:
August 29, 2006
Bitch Magazine founders and editors, Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, will read from the collection, BITCHfest, the best essays of their magazine's first ten years, on September 28, at 5:30 pm in Ferguson Hall, on the campus of Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue.
Over the last ten years, Bitch Magazine has covered so much that is serious, funny and outrageous about sexual politics. Topics like lesbian fashion, fetishes, the sexual highway, incarcerated women, the disappearance of black women in sitcoms and interviews with artists, writers, filmmakers and political leaders have made Bitch a fresh and unapologetic voice in the popular media. Sarah Jones, Margaret Cho, bell hooks, Janeane Garofalo, Barbara Ehrenreich, Harriet the Spy, Gurinder Chadha and many more have contributed a "bitch" or two in the last decade.
Lisa Jervis believes that issues of "gender justice" are just as important today as they were in the early days of the feminist movement and that one of the greatest dangers to the movement spawned in the 70's and 80's is a growing divide between first-generation activists and a new generation of young people "in their 20s and 30s who don't see their concerns reflected in the feminism of their elders."
This visit by Jervis and Zeisler is presented by Columbia College Chicago's Institute for the Study of Women and Gender, in cooperation with the college's program in Women and Gender Studies and the Journalism Department, and in partnership with the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
WHEN: September 28, 2006 at 5:30 pm
WHERE: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor
COST: Free and open to the public
INFO: Contact Jane M. Saks or Kelly S. Saulsberry at 312.344.8829
Established in 2005, the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media is interested in the relationships and intersections between gender, creativity and culture.
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.344.8695