Amber LeabCo-Founder and Executive Editor
Amber now lives in near-utopian Asheville, North Carolina, and has previously lived in Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. She has a Master’s degree in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature & Creative Writing from Miami University. Outside of Bitch Flicks, her work has appeared in The Georgetown Review, as a finalist for their annual fiction award; on the web at Shakesville, The Opinioness of the World, Not Another Wave, and I Will Not Diet; and onstage at True Theatre. Her current obsessions include Southern identity, finding movies she unequivocally loves, local food, making Bitch Flicks an easily-navigable website, and her two dogs--Kahlo and Rivera. You can find her on Twitter, especially when she has more important things to do.
Co-Founder and Managing Editor
Stephanie grew up in Middletown, Ohio, one of America's top ten fastest dying towns, according to Forbes Magazine. In 2003, she received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from The Ohio State University, where she also won the Citino Undergraduate Poetry Prize. She completed her Master’s in English and Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Cincinnati, and in 2007, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Two of her poems have been selected for inclusion in the emerging writers anthology Best New Poets (2009 and 2006). Her poetry has also appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Southern Review, Pleiades, Cream City Review, Grist: A Journal for Writers, The Pinch, Third Coast, and Madison Review, among others. Her feminist commentary has been published online at Women and Hollywood, Ms. Magazine, Shakesville, I Will Not Diet, The Opinioness of the World, Not Another Wave, and The Good Men Project. She lives in a very tiny studio apartment in Brooklyn where she occasionally updates Women Occupy, a tumblr she created to highlight women who participate in the Occupy Movement.
Communications Director and Staff Writer
Megan is a feminist vegan blogger and freelance writer living in Boston. Megan blogs about gender, media, food, and reproductive justice at The Opinioness of the World, a feminist vegan site she founded. She also writes about feminist issues as a Regular Blogger at Fem2pt0. Megan's work has also appeared at Arts & Opinion, Everyday Feminism, Feminist Magazine on KPFK radio, Feministing’s Community Blog, Italianieuropei, Open Letters Monthly, A Safe World for Women and Women and Hollywood. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from UMass Amherst and a Graduate Certificate in Women and Politics and Public Policy from UMass Boston. You can follow all of Megan's unapologetically opinionated thoughts -- Leslie Knope’s awesomeness, the idiocy of anti-choice legislation, and where to find the best vegan doughnuts -- on Twitter at @OpinionessWorld as well as on Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest.
Staff Writer
Erin grew up in small-town Idaho where she took solace in cult cinema. Her burgeoning feminist ideals didn't dampen her approach to viewing even the most obviously gender-norm-dependent films, but created another angle of intrigue. She went to the University of Idaho where she grabbed a Journalism degree. There she was a student blogger, radio show producer and self-described feminist activist. After graduating from college she blogged for a reproductive rights organization, Trust Women. Now she lives in Portland, Oregon, and freelances for different publications including Willamette Week. She also says she is a poet, but refuses to publish, perform or share lest someone offer "constructive" critiques.
Staff Writer
Janyce Denise Glasper is an artist and writer from Dayton, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and will begin the Post Baccalaureate Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in the fall. Janyce runs both AfroVeganChick, a vegan and natural hair journey/inspiration blog and Sugarygingersnap, arts fun related adventure. Oh the side, she has been penning and editing the life out of The Yellow Trolley Chronicles, her first series of novels about unrequited bus driver love and writing a screenplay about her inspiration, Harlem Renaissance sculptor, Augusta Savage. She also enjoys reading, chocolate, feminist film, Joss Whedon, comic books, and James Scott from Days of Our Lives. Find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter!
Staff Writer
Robin Hitchcock is an American writer living in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a BA in history and political science and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh, neither of which prepared her for the actual life she is trying to live. Robin is one of the founding members of the Pittsburgh-based all-female comedy troupe Frankly Scarlett (and she knows that is a misquote of Gone With the Wind. Her objections were overruled.) You can also find Robin's personal writing and podcasts at HitchDied.com and her barely edited ramblings about pop culture at hitchdied.tumblr.com, and her under-140 character musings @HitchDied.
Staff Writer
Leigh Kolb is an instructor at a community college in rural Missouri. She teaches composition, literature and journalism courses. While working on her MFA in creative nonfiction writing, Leigh was the editor of a small-town newspaper. In her academic and professional life, she's always gravitated toward the history and literature of the oppressed, and wants to see their stories properly inserted into our cultural dialogue. She believes that critically analyzing popular media is an important step in opening those conversations. She writes about film and television through a feminist and anti-racist lens, and has spoken about using the rhetoric of social change in the composition classroom. Leigh wrote the gender criticism chapter for the upcoming Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy and her creative nonfiction and media criticism have been published at xoJane and fem2pt0. Leigh lives on a small farm with her husband, dogs, cat and flock of chickens.
Rachel RedfernStaff Writer
Rachel Redfern has an MA in English literature, where she conducted research on modern American literature and film and its intersection; however, she spends most of her time watching HBO shows, traveling, and blogging and reading about feminism.
Staff Writer
Amanda is an environmental activist living in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds a BA from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and an MFA in fiction writing from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her work has also appeared in The Asheville Post and Girl Named Boo. She writes about food and drinking games on her site Booze & Baking. Amanda is obsessed with bicycles and enjoys road biking, swimming, weight lifting, and teaching her indoor cycling class. Fun fact: while living in Kyoto, Japan, her house was attacked by monkeys. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest and Instagram.
Staff Writer
Lady T’s real name is Theresa Basile. She publishes at Bitch Flicks under a pseudonym because Lady T was a cute nickname bestowed upon her during childhood by her cool and snarky aunts. (Also, no one pronounces her real name correctly anyway). Lady T has a B.A. from Hofstra University where she majored in English and Education and minored in Drama. She taught public school for four years until she came to her senses, and now she works at a private nonprofit school for children with autism. She enjoys Shakespeare, The Simpsons, and trying to find the perfect intersection between feminism and comedy. Her novel is almost done and will be coming soon to a bookstore near you - assuming an agent picks it up and bookstores still exist in a few years.
Staff Writer
Max is a grad student who doesn't really like pronouns but won't object to either ey/em or he/him. Too British for the US and too American for the UK, Max currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area but dreams of London and New York. Max likes theology, intersectional feminism, and pop culture, and blogs about these things at Gay Christian Geek.
Staff Writer
Myrna is a feminist writer/blogger with a particular emphasis on all things nerdy. She lives in Toronto and has studied English and Film at York University. Myrna has a particular interest in the animation medium, having written extensively on American, Canadian and Japanese animation. She also has a passion for Sci-Fi & Fantasy literature, pop culture literature such as cartoons/comics, and the gaming subculture. She maintains a personal collection of blog posts, rants, essays and musings at The Soapboxing Geek, and tweets with reckless pottymouthed abandon at @SoapboxingGeek.
Carrie Nelson
Monthly Contributor
Carrie was a Staff Writer for Gender Across Borders, an international feminist community and blog that she co-founded in 2009. She works as a grant writer for an LGBT nonprofit, and she is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at The New School.
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