Tag: Blogiversary

It’s Our 5-Year Blogiversary!

BF co-founders Steph and Amber at the 2010 Athena Film Festival

We can’t believe it, but today marks five years since we started Bitch Flicks.
In March 2008, we started a blog with the wink-and-a-nudge name, Bitch Flicks. In that first year, we wrote a whopping seventeen posts, eight of which were actual film reviews.
In 2012 we published 557 posts–and “we” consisted of a dozen people, not to mention numerous guest writers.
We want to thank our Editor and Staff Writer Megan Kearns.
We want to thank our staff writers: Erin Fenner, Robin Hitchcock, Leigh Kolb, Carrie Nelson, Rachel Redfern, Amanda Rodriguez, Lady T, Max Thornton, and Myrna Waldron.
We want to thank everyone who has ever contributed to Bitch Flicks, whether by writing a post, designing a logo, donating, commenting, or sharing a piece you read with someone else.
Everyone mentioned here has been a part of what has made this project continue. 
Finally, we want to thank every one of you reading this–and we hope you’ll stay with us in years to come. 
–Steph and Amber

Help us celebrate our 5-year blogiversary this March!

Save the Date!
If you’re a regular reader of Bitch Flicks, you might already know that we’re approaching our 5-year blogiversary. Woot!
You might not know (if you’re not on Facebook, Twitter, et al) that we’re celebrating with a bash in New York City on Friday, March 29th. 
(Want to go but haven’t received an invite? Let us know at btchflcks(at)gmail(dot)com!)
We could use your help with this party. We’re writers for a feminist blog, and we don’t have a lot of spare dough to throw a truly cool shindig. You’ll see some new buttons in the sidebar for one-time donations of $5, $10, and $25 if you want to give us a hand.
Bitch Flicks has been a labor of love for us from the beginning. Our work–and the work of all of you out there do to bring attention to issues of gender and media–is important, and sometimes we need to celebrate that work. We hope you’ll celebrate with us.
–The Bitch Flicks Team

Our 4-Year Blogiversary

Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise, Vivica A. Fox, and Jada Pinkett Smith in Set It Off
Something happened last Wednesday, in the midst of our Women’s History Month series focusing on Biopics and Documentaries about Women: We missed our 4-year blogiversary. Our forgetting is either a very good sign or a very bad one, but we couldn’t be happier about four years of movies, television, media, and feminism.
A shout-out and big thank you to all our readers and guest writers. With your help, Bitch Flicks‘ influence and site traffic have grown substantially in the past year. We continue to be an ad-free website consisting of an all-volunteer staff of regular and guest writers.
No ads also means no revenue to pay for site hosting, upgrades, and the like. So we have some ways you can help:
  • Donate via PayPal. Notice the “Donate” tab at the top right of the page. If you’re a reader who supports what we do, consider donating. Any amount, however small, is a gesture of support and will help pay for our expenses.
  • Purchase items through our Amazon store. We have a widget in our sidebar called “Bitch Flicks‘ Picks.” If you go on to make purchases through our site, we earn a small percentage of the proceeds, and if it’s an awesome feminist film, TV show, or book, then we all win.
If you support what we do but can’t afford a monetary contribution, there are a number of things you can do to show your appreciation and help spread the word about Bitch Flicks.
Here’s to another great year!