Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

I would love to be entered into the drawing.  :)

Don’t screw the pooch! Save BITCH!

Seriously, I’ve just visited the site and helped the Wiener grow—but I’d be thrilled to win a subscription, too! :)

Every little bit helps!

I’ve donated.  But I’d love a subscription, too.

Donating today. If I don’t win a subscription here, I’m renewing mine. And buying the back issues of the ones I’ve missed since moving.

Bitch rocks so hard.

The thought of losing Bitch strikes fear into my feminist heart.  Please, ladies, donate if you can.  I will be.

Oh, and I know my name won’t be pulled, but if it is, please pull another.  I’m already a loyal subscriber.  Give the subscription to someone who hasn’t experienced the greatness that is Bitch.

Thanks for letting us know about the weiner, hopefully we can all make it grow.

I’ve never read Bitch before, but it looks awesome. Go wiener dog, go!

It’s amazing how many times I have shelved this magazine and never looked at it (along with a host of others) but I am going to help the weiner dog grow too. After all, I own 2 of them and wouldn’t want to see another one “go hungry”.

It’s too bad that the industry is suffering. Wonder if they have tried e-publishing instead? I will have to look further into that.

Aack! I love Bitch SO much! I don’t care if I don’t win a subscription I just want someone to. The more people exposed to the sheer awesome of Bitch, the better the world will be.

Love Bitch magazine!  I’ve never had a subscription (I usually steal it from the OB-GYN office - I know… BAD ABBY!) but I love their content.  While I don’t always 100% agree with their POV, I love and respect that they are out there, doing what they do with integrity and humor.

It would be shame if they folded. I wonder if people are getting that much of that content from blogs like feministing.com now instead of the print magazine?

Abby,

I’m impressed your OB-GYN’s office carries Bitch.  Mine just carries parenting magazines.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the magazine.  I don’t generally read mags other than Consumer Reports or whatever I see at the dentist’s office.
However, I do believe in independent media and I think it’s a good cause, so I donated.  My husband bought a llama at the same time on his laptop (through heifer international), and I also just made homemade falafel.  Wow I really feel good now.

Aw, I’m a sucker for a li’l blue weiner dog.

I’ll have to look for this one next time I am at the bookstore. I’ll donate too.

oh, i love bitch! and i’d love a subscription. i’ve been justifying not getting one by telling myself it’s actually helping them more to pay more buying it at the newsstand. apparently though, it’s time to get one, before they go under for good, and i just donated.

spam word: bill26. actually, it was 40 bills, and wish i could afford more.

I love the weiner dog! (and all the puns) :D

I’ve never heard of the magazine, but it sounds right up my alley.

I’m going to donate some money in memory of my late dachshund Snoopy. She would want it that way.

I would like to see the feds bail out Bitch, it’s much cheaper than AIG.

WEINER!!!!

part39.  cause it falls somewhere between the hips (part 34) and the knees (part 42)

I love their magazine, and will totally donate .

Could I please be entered to possibly win a subscription?

I am so glad I wasn’t the only one to bring this to your attention!!  I really hope they get the funds. Bitch saved my sanity (well, that and Bust) when I moved from Oregon to Indiana.

Really. You have no idea. NW In. in the early-mid 90’s. Vacuum of Hell.

NOOO We can’t lose Bitch mag!  I actually haven’t seen any new issues locally lately…please put me in the drawing!

The link is down right now, but I’ll be heading over there to donate definitely!

I usually buy Bitch at Barnes & Noble. Looks like it is time to subscribe.

I knew the Bitchery would rally if they only knew of the plight of this magazine of awesomeness and wonder!  A tip of the hat (as Stephen Colbert would say) to all of y’all who’ve donated.  Bitch saved my sanity on more than one occasion when no one else seemed to be saying WTF?!! about some pretty major issues, and I get a little misty looking at the issue that’s on my coffee table - thinking that it might be the last one.

I’ve donated too, and I already have a subscription…for those of you who might win one, I’m keeping my fingers crossed ‘cause I always get a little thrill in my bits (both naughty and nice) when I open my mailbox and Bitch is inside.  So, all I can say is, GO WEINER DOG, GO!!

lolz @ bitches with weiners

Bitch is such a terrific magazine, it would be awful to see it go out of business.  I’d love to win a subscription, but if not, one is definitely going on my birthday list.

Do they even sell BITCH in the bible belt? I’ve never seen it but looked around their website..I’d love a subscription if it’s allowed in TN lol.

Good luck on the donations, with the added publicity here I’m sure they’ll hit the 40K plus extra!

God, that would suck. Is it definitely possible to save them? I don’t mean to be a voice of doubt, but what if it doesn’t work? The alternative/ discordant voice could go missing.

taking19. More like giving 20. Like others, wish it was more.

I see Bitch on my supermarket stand monthly and haven’t picked it up yet. Don’t know why, it sounds great. I’d love to be entered for the subscription, though if that doesn’t pan out I’ll subscribe for myself (and one for my sister too.)

Donation on the way.

And yet Cosmo and Glamour and the others still go on . . .

Pick me!

I’d love to be entered into the drawing.  And I’ll have to see if I can scrounge up a little extra cash to give as well, because Bitch deserves to live!

This is terrible news. Bitch is such a smart magazine. Unique as well.

I let my subscription lapse when I realized I was skimming more than half of it (it’s very texty and occasionally a hair too strident/overanalyzing for my liking) each time it came in. But I think I’ll have to reup and make a donation because it’s not right that a magazine like this should fold when so many putrid ones thrive.

I hope I win!  I’m a huge fan…and will be heading over to donate…

I chipped in and spread the word in my blog!

Oh no! I love Bitch and was shocked to find that people in my grad school considered it scandalous and offensive.

I’ve not heard of Bitch before…though now I’m checking them out!

Feed the Weiner!

I hate it when independents disappear (be they magazines, stores, whatever).

Save the Weiner (dog)!

No way should this magazine disappear. not if SB readers have anything to say about it!!!

I’ve never read it, but I admit I’ve always been put off by the name. I browsed their website yesterday and enjoyed some of the articles though. The fact that it doesn’t seem to be fluffy at all is appealing. Bust strikes me as fluffy (another one with a name that puts me off).

Ooh Drawing. Count me in!
Bitch is awesome! I’m always flipping through it at Barnes and Noble. We need to keep these indies afloat! We especially need to help such an intelligence-driven forward-moving magazine such as Bitch from slipping through the cracks.

Do they even sell BITCH in the bible belt?

Yep! In Newnan, Georgia they do. But only at B&N;.

Thanks for the heads-up, ladies! I posted the info on my el-jay. I also dropped them an email to talk to them about the feasibility of doing a fundraiser at my bookstore, and I’ll be buying all the issues on the shelf at my bookstore and giving them to employees and customers in the hopes of drumming up more interest.

I would like to see the feds bail out Bitch, it’s much cheaper than AIG.

Well said, quichepup, and I completely agree.

Really. You have no idea. NW In. in the early-mid 90’s. Vacuum of Hell.

Yeah, Meggie, I have an idea—Johnson County, IN, from 1988-2002.  I feel your pain.  Although I have to admit, it builds character and an appreciation for some things one might take for granted on the Left Coast.

Bitches saving bitches—this remind me of ferrets!

Thanks for posting about this! I’ve never had a Bitch subscription, but I’ve always enjoyed individual issues I’ve read, so I donated.

I like their tattoos.  And the French Bulldog.  I want one.

Thanks for the heads-up—I’m all for helping indie-bitches with killer tats:-)

Wow - I am very sad to hear about BITCH magazine being in bad financial straits.  I will donate.

I don’t know how I never came across Bitch.  Sad news, but I will definitely send some support their way.  Feminist discussion on culture is nevr a bad thing.

I’ve never heard of this but it looks so interesting! I wanna be a wiener!

I profiled Bitch for my magazine overview class last semester, and since then, it is really the only magazine I read…I love it and cherish and will be a very sad panda if it shuts down.

:-(

Magazine looks interesting, and wiener dog is cute! Will have to donate .

using74: using 74 dollars to donate? I wish…

I am going to get a subscription right now.  I hope that counts for the wiener dog?*

*I just typed “god”.  It is time to go to bed.

Oh NOES!

Time to embrace the Bitch

Thank you for posting this! Bitch is my favorite magazine, hands down, and it would make me cry to never have another one. I donated and sent an email to all my bitch-minded friends, with instructions to send it on, so hopefully we can help them make the goal!

If Canadians can get in on the drawing, I’d love a Bitch subscription!

Bummer! Bitch is such a good magazine! Please donate, people!

How have I never heard of this magazine before?

I’d love to win a subscription—Bitch really is an awesome magazine. Oh please don’t fold!

I went to the site to donate, and got sucked into reading articles for an embarrassing amount of time yesterday. So much for my rewrites.  Plus, I have a new blog to read so the procrastination can continue daily!  Yay!

(Seriously—thanks for the heads up.)

I would love a subscription.  I’ve bought it at the newsstand, but I always wonder whether magazines make more from newsstand sales or subscriptions.  Bitch says subscriptions are best:

Newsstand distribution is a losing proposition for independent magazines, now more than ever before, so the more people who get their Bitch directly from the organization, the better.

When you buy off the newsstand, a chunk of that money goes to the store and the distributor

It also sounds like the uncertainty of newsstand sales is a large part of their current financial crisis:

basically, a recent issue did not sell as well on the newsstand as others historically have, so a check that was expected from our distributor is not coming, and that—combined with the usual cash flow issues that plague the magazine industry in general—created an immediate shortfall.

Aw, poor Bitch! I’ve been meaning to subscribe for awhile, so I guess I’ve got to hurry up & do it before it’s too late.

My confirmation word: trouble25.

~~Every little bit helps! ~~

Shouldn’t that be every little bitch helps?

Diane ;o)

Many thanks for getting the word out - I’d not heard.  It’s great to read that the Bitches have rallied to keep Bitch alive!

I’ve only just now been able to watch the video and go over to the Bitch site, and WAHOO! The next issue has been saved.

I’ve never heard of the magazine, but I’m excited to track it down now that it has narrowly escaped extinction.

Go bitches!

freedom17!  Freedom of speech, freedom of thought.

Unfortunately I haven’t been subbed in ages, but I do love Bitch. My high school drama teacher was the one who introduced me to feminism. She was a real old school feminist. I still have copy of Women Who Run With the Wolves that she gave me for my18th birth day. She rocks out loud. Interestingly enough, she’s also the one who first introduced me to Bitch magazine. We still keep in contact via e-mail after all these years. I think of all the teachers I’ve had in my life she was the one who influenced the person I’ve become the most. I’mma go donate in her honor.

I recently bumped into BITCH at an art class.  Loved it!  Thanks for the reminder. I’m headed over to make a donation, now!

die bitch die.
das Weibchen stirbt.