An independent, quarterly alt magazine’s feminist response to pop culture.

Bitch magazine Plastic Issue #91

Client
Bitch Media

Editor in Chief
Evette Dionne

Creative Director
Leslie Xia

Art Director
Ashley Wu

Photo Editor
Sinikiwe Dhliwayo

Writers
Adwoa Afful, Fullamusu Bangura, Nicole Froio, Adrienne Lawrence, Alaina Leary, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Katherine D. Morgan, Michelle Polizzi, Mary Retta, Sarah Rosenthal, Andrea Ruggirello, Barbara Sostaita, Nora Salem, Reina Sultan, Marina Watanabe, and Brooklyn White

Artists
Briana Arrington-Dengoue, Prisca Choe, Cindy Echevarria, Kris LaRosa, Lavender Rose Mucciolo, Simone Noronha, MacKenzie Schroeder, Taylor Simpson, Xiao Mei, Ashley Wu, Leslie Xia, and Cynthia Zhou

Bitch Magazine: The Plastic Issue considers what the material itself can teach us about plasticity or the process of molding something new. Since being founded in 1996 as a ’90s feminist zine, Bitch Magazine grew to amass an estimated 80,000 readers in print circulation and an online readership of 4.5 million. Alongside the Interim Creative Director Leslie Xia, I had the pleasure to produce layout design, art direction, image sourcing, and the commission of illustration and photography across the 80+ page magazine. In the honor of Plastic, Prica Choe was commissioned to laser cut our featured typeface Kobe, as well as the masthead itself, in order to bring our pages and text to life.

Stories designed and produced include Feminist Fill-In: Chelsea Rochman Rethinks the Plastic Problem with illustration by Ashley Wu, Toys Are Us: Unlocking Trauma Through Classic Trinkets by Alaina Leary with illustrations by Taylor Simpson, Ready For Those Jellies: The Shoe That Became Both Cheap Luxury and Status Symbol by Brooklyn White with illustrations by Briana Arrington, Terms of Service: Inside Social Media’s War on Sex Workers by Reina Sultan with illustrations by Xiao Mei, Waste Land: For Migrants, Water Bottles Are a Matter of Life and Death by Barbara Sostaita with photography by Kris LaRosa, and Cerulean Blues: The Devil Wears Prada Fashions a Cautionary Tale by Sarah Rosenthal with artwork by MacKenzie Schroeder.