Bitch magazine has taken to YouTube to raise money to keep afloat.

We love Bitch for many reasons, not the least being they recently did a Q&A with comedian Kate Rigg, who is our good friend and colleague.

Bitch’s role as an independent magazine is important and it would be terrible shame if it went under.

Utne Reader blog explains the situation:

If you‚Äôre not familiar with Bitch or haven‚Äôt read it in a while, here’s the lowdown: It is a 12-year-old independent magazine that looks at feminism through a pop-culture lens. It is genuine and earnest and playful at turns; it is surprising, incisive; it is the only print magazine out there doing what it is doing.

And I have to say, as a longtime fan of Bitch, this magazine just keeps getting better and better: The writing is tighter, the analysis deeper, the pieces more varied with every (quarterly) installment. I flagged nearly every article in their new issue (#41) to discuss at our next pitch meeting—to name just a couple of standouts, there’s an energetic discussion about why “it’s a new golden age of young-adult fiction,” despite continued censorship of books with “adult” language and sexual content, and an awesome, inspiring Q&A with the Detroit hip-hop artist and activist Invincible (articles not available online).