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Lisa Jervis

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Lisa Jervis became an activist for independent political media by accident when she cofounded Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture because she was angry about some things and knew that no one else would publish her essays about it. While growing Bitch from a tiny 300-copy zine into a national quarterly nonprofit magazine with a circulation approaching 50,000, she learned some things about how the media landscape affects social justice movements.

In addition to her many writings for Bitch, her work has appeared in Ms., the San Francisco Chronicle, Utne, Mother Jones, the Women's Review of Books, the late and much-lamented Hues, Salon, the late and also-lamented Punk Planet, the late and lamented-by-the-few-people- who've-heard-of-it LiP: Informed Revolt, Body Outlaws (Seal Press),  and Tipping the Sacred Cow (AK Press). She is the co-editor of Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (Seal Press) and (of course) Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and the author of Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Local, Healthy Eating (PM Press, fall 2009)

She was born in Boston and partially raised in Los Angeles; her family moved to New York City when she eight, making her a New Yorker by chronology and temperament. The transplant to Oakland, however, has worked out remarkably well.