Is Biology Destiny?

In every issue

Editor's Letter
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
The Bitch list—a few more of our favorite things
Bitch Reads
Suggested Listening
Resistance Tips for Girls—Jean Kilbourne's six handy ways to say no to ad culture

Columns

||| Are fat suits the new blackface?
||| getting Lucky;A political poster family speaks
||| mary-kateandashley magazine (yup, that's the way they spell it) vs. My Evil Twin Sister
||| plus our resource guide for news, activism, and philanthropy in the aftermath of 9-11.

Features

||| Go Fish—chasing tail at Coney Island's Mermaid Parade
||| A Galaxy Of Our Own—Searching for black women in science-fiction film
||| Better Bled Than Hormone-Fed—A pads-and-all defense of menstruation
||| Her Aim Is True—Filmmaker Allison Anders on her latest movie, Things Behind the Sun
||| Bootie Call—Who's buying The Learning Channel's wedding and baby fantasies?
||| Divine Secrets of the YA Sisterhood—Revisiting the glory days of the young-adult novel
||| Rock Star, Hold the Belly Button—One musician's primer on how to get heard without losing your shirt