Bitch and the End of Independent Feminist Media

Bitch Media is shutting down after a quarter-century. What’s left to take its place?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
5 min readApr 13, 2022

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A newsstand full of magazines that aren’t BITCH (like all newsstands soon will be).
A whole lot of magazines that aren’t BITCH. (We have weird image use requirements.) Photo by Charisse Kenion on Unsplash

Last night, like just about everyone I know, I received an email telling me that Bitch Media — an independent feminist publication that had been running for a solid quarter-century, the first feminist magazine I read and one of the first I ever…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.