19 Years of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books!
Celebrate the 19th anniversary of the essential romance site, Smart Bitches Trashy Books here! Leave a comment! Have fun with the community! Check out some articles while you are there! More here.
Bitches On Comics: “Not THE Beginning but A Beginning featuring Arturo Rojas”
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century talks about Wheel of Time with Arturo Rojas on the Bitches On Comics podcast! “Sara and Arturo Rojas met via the great Graymalkin Lane podcast talking about the X-Men. At one point during a recording, they discovered that they both enjoy the […]
“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”
At Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow has some thoughts. “When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by […]
The Feminine Critique’s 2023 Year End List!
Join Emily and Christine as they discuss their 2023 year end list on The Feminine Critique Podcast! “It’s the year-end list you’ve all been waiting for (kind of). Christine makes her triumphant return to join Emily as they walk through their favorite stuff of 2023. There are movies […]
“How Queer is Frankenstein?”
Ruth Franklin writes about Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, childbirth, Queerness and new novels that address them all. “Perhaps this is why the “Frankenstein” story continues to haunt us. If, as parents, we are Victor Frankenstein, then as children we are all his creature. Or, perhaps better, the creature is […]
“11 Books that Changed How I Think about Space Opera”
Charlie Jane Anders shares a space opera reading list and you should peruse it! “We are living in a new golden age of space opera. People have proclaimed the death of this vital subgenre many times over the decades — but like a deep space probe upgraded by […]
The Cultural Gutter 