Friend,
It's here. The Wild issue of Bitch magazine. And you're among the first to get a peek at the arresting new cover:
The Wild issue asks us to confront the ways we have historically thought about who and what deserves protection. Settlers intent on taming the "savagery" of Indigenous people used wildness as an excuse to seize their land; tourists who exoticize the Global South today use a similar thought process to treat real places where real people live as their own inhibition-free personal playgrounds. But what if "wildness" was protected, instead? The Wild issue explores how environmental educators are teaching children the true meaning of exploration, how activists are organizing to preserve the environment by letting go of lawns, and how writers are remaking America's Wild West literary canon—among other things.
You got a peek of the cover: now subscribe by tomorrow night and you can also be the first to get the Wild issue at your doorstep by getting in on the very first mailing of the new issue.
Select work in this issue:
No Man’s Land: Revisiting the Dream of a Female Utopia
Ann Foster
14
Freedom Fighters: Are Better Days Ahead in Palestine?
Reina Sultan
16
Mowed Down: Inside the Growing Anti-Lawn Movement
Shailee Koranne
18
Sweet Hereafter: The Bitter Past and Promising Future of Sugarcane
Alicia Kennedy
22
Mane Character: How the Unicorn Became Everything to Everyone
s.e. smith
30
Greater Outdoors: Meet the Leaders Making Nature More Accessible
Bani Amor, Rahawa Haile, and Jolie Varela
36
Community Service: Inside the Native Tribe Transforming Justice
Abaki Beck
40
Paradise Lost: What Hedonistic Tourism Costs the Global South
Nicole Froio
44
Marketing the Monster: Has Trans Identity Become a Sales Pitch?
Oliver Haug
48
Picking Fights: Can Foraging Be Fruitful for People of Color?
Dakota Kim
62
Reblazing Saddles: Who Shapes the Wild West Lit Canon?
Nylah Burton
68
Bare Trap: How Girls Gone Wild Sold Sham Empowerment
Erin Taylor
76
Loud and Clear: There Is No Punk without Black Women
Vanessa Willoughby
82
