The Bitter Southerner Reveals The All Women Issue, Available Now
June 25 2024 - 1:23PM
Business Wire
In the media brand’s largest issue to date,
every word, every photo, every illustration, every assignment, and
every edit, was made by women
The Bitter Southerner, the James Beard Award–winning independent
media brand telling important stories through a Southern lens,
reveals The All Women Issue. Its largest and first themed
issue ever includes stories, essays, poetry, and art by and about
90 different women culminating into a cultural document of
historical significance depicting what it is like to be a woman in
2024.
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Kacey Musgraves on the cover of The
Bitter Southerner's Issue No. 8 The All Women Issue / Courtesy: The
Bitter Southerner
Every element of the magazine — from the words and illustrations
to the editing — was made by women. Even advertising dollars were
put up by female-founded companies including Tibi, Hable, and
Alabama Chanin.
The Bitter Southerner’s All Women Issue (Issue No. 8) is
electric, vibrating with female creativity, resilience, ingenuity,
vulnerability, activism, joy, and grief. Subjects include beauty
school, insomnia, odd birds, women demanding reproductive rights,
and an end to gun violence.
“We always publish a diverse chorus of voices, but for this very
special edition, we invited only the women to sing,” Co-Founder
Kyle Tibbs Jones writes in her editor’s letter. She adds, “This is
not your mother’s women’s issue. In our All Women Issue, the
emphasis is on ALL. In a critical election year for our country,
we’ve created a magazine filled with storytelling and poetry and
essays and photography that explore how we’re feeling, right now,
as women.”
The All Women Issue is available now to order at
bittersoutherner.com and at select retailers.
Highlights include:
- On the cover, Kacey Musgraves photographed by her sister
Kelly Christine Sutton, talking with journalist Christina
Lee about her inner source of strength, how she prefers to lead
with softness and love, and her new album Deeper Well
- Award-winning author and legendary food historian Toni
Tipton-Martin writes “A Letter from Home” about the black women
who've taught America to cook
- Preeminent writer, professor and social commentator Roxane
Gay writes the magazine’s feature essay on TikTok
- At 83, the one and only, Joan Baez shares a
heart-wrenching retrospective poem
- “The Unstoppable Women of Nashville,” a photo essay capturing
Gloria Johnson, Alison Russell, SistaStrings, Caroline
Randall, and the mothers of The Covenant
School
- Soulful and striking collage art by Atlanta artist Shanequa
Gay
- And more powerful contributions from A-list writers Elissa
Altman, Sabrina Orah Mark, Holley Haworth, Shane
Mitchell, and others
- Brilliant “books we’d like to see” from media moguls Carla
Hall, Errin Haines, Marissa Moss, Helen Rosner, Kerry Diamond, and
Jamila Robinson.
- And because we’ve got to laugh, Jewel Wicker talks to
fiercely funny Southern women, Dolcé Sloan, Heather McMahan,
Leslie Jones, and others.
Through storytelling and activism, The Bitter Southerner is
leading a movement across digital and print magazines, books,
podcasts, and commerce. The media brand remains on the forefront
reporting a true, more progressive, more modern account of what the
South is, and thus, what America is today. From the beginning, The
Bitter Southerner challenged the models of traditional media,
launching 11 years ago with long-form stories and ecommerce when
neither were embraced. This year, The Bitter Southerner won its
ninth James Beard Award and has seen tremendous growth and
profitability over the last four years. The magazine has a 96
percent retention rate among subscribers.
ABOUT THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
A beacon from the American South and a bellwether for the
nation, The Bitter Southerner is an Athens, Ga.-based independent
publisher, founded in 2013, that connects an activated and vocal
global community working to make the South, and America, a better
place. Today, The Bitter Southerner publishes three print magazines
annually, books under its BS Publishing imprint, the “Batch”
podcast, and iconic apparel and home goods in the BS General Store.
bittersoutherner.com
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Kyle Tibbs Jones Co-Founder, Editorial and Communications
Director kyle@bittersoutherner.com