About
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Unfit to Print is maintained by Erin Wiegand, a writer, editor, and German translator living in Oakland, California. She is the former managing editor of LiP Magazine, an award-winning journal of radical politics, culture, sex, and humor, and current project editor for Blue Snake Books, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. Her writing has appeared in several print and online magazines, including LiP, AlterNet, and In These Times, and in two anthologies: Tipping the Sacred Cow (a LiP anthology) and In the Beginning (from the editors of mental_floss).
If you would like to talk to Erin, email her at erin [at] unfittoprint.net. If you would like to pay her to write or rearrange words, visit her “professional” website at erinwiegand.com.
ABOUT THIS BLOG
The title “Unfit to Print” stems from my 2004 thesis Islam: What’s Fit to Print?, an examination of post-9/11 representations of Islam and Muslims in the New York Times. I began this blog as an outlet for critiquing depictions of race, gender, sex, and cultural identities within pop culture and the media (both mainstream and independent). The title “Unfit to Print” is not meant to suggest censorship as a means of combatting bigotry within the media, but is meant to raise the question of what is considered “fit” or “unfit” to publish, and why; it is as much a reference to the “unfit” nature of my own writing for mainstream publishing as it is a criticism of the proliferation of sexism, racism, and classism through the mass media.
This blog isn’t exclusively devoted to media criticism, of course; other topics of interest include capitalism, anarchism, feminism, white supremacy & racism, patriarchy, gender essentialism & anti-sex feminism, factory farming & vivesection, the construction of “mental illness”, the pharmaceutical industry, agribusiness, and neocolonialism.
I also like horror movies and cartoons.