Lit Femme is a living archive.
This newsletter is a celebration of the work of queer, lesbian and feminist writers, musicians, artists and historians. Expect intergenerational conversations, reflections, and listings of out-of-print/rare books, records and other dyke culture ephemera and generally extremely niche content. If this sounds like you’re shit, you’re in the right place.
Who is this femme and how is she so lit?
Trish Bendix is a writer, editor, researcher, producer and purveyor of deep lez dyke culture. Based in L.A., she is currently a regular contributor to the New York Times and Best of Late Night columnist.
Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Time, Variety, Vulture, The Cut, The Daily Beast, Conde Nast's THEM, Cosmopolitan, Vogue.com, ELLE.com, OprahMag.com, HarpersBazaar.com, The Hollywood Reporter, Nylon.com, LAmag.com, NBC Out, Slate, and Buzzfeed, among many others. Bendix has essays in the Seal Press anthology Dear John, I Love Jane and its sequel, Janeland (Cleis Press), Untying the Knot (Ooligan Press), Opposing Viewpoints: Celebrity Culture (Layman Poupard Publishing), and she penned the introduction for 2 Brides 2 Be (Archer).
Bendix previously served as Editor in Chief of AfterEllen.com and Managing Editor of the GLAAD and NLGJA Award-winning digital magazine INTO. She is the winner of the 2015 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBT Journalist of the Year from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association and was nominated for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article at the 2019 GLAAD Media Awards. She is a former board member of the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, a current member of the Television Critics Association, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
In addition to journalism, Bendix co-founded Queer Fest Midwest and co-hosted the Hollywood QCast podcast with TV Guide editor Jim Halterman. Bendix brought the first-ever queer panel to SXSW in 2010. She has spoken on Kara Swisher's Recode on NPR as well as San Diego Comic-Con, ClexaCon, Q-Me Con, Out Women in Business, Lesbians Who Tech, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, and Outfest, among others. She has a dedicated social media following and is frequently cited and asked for her opinions on lesbian visibility in entertainment, media, and popular culture.
She is represented by Katelyn Dougherty at Paradigm and currently working on a book about music and feminism.
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