episode three: A WOMAN ON THE ROAD IS ALONE

"A man on the road is solitary," the writer Vanessa Veselka said. "A woman on the road is just alone." Veselka thumbed rides for three years as a teenager & never once saw another girl hitching. We've got wanderlust too, and we don't need company. But like Veselka, we could think of a lot of stories about men on the road alone and not so many tales about women traveling solo. (If there's one thing this patriarchal society hates, it's a woman with agency doing whatever TF she wants.) So we hitchhiked to Vegas in protest of that tradition. WE OUT HERE.

"a man on the road alone is solitary," the writer Vanessa Veselka said. "a woman on the road is just alone." join the women of Bitchface as they hitchhike to Las Vegas while contemplating the double standard of traveling alone, a rite of passage for men and a liability for women. 

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A. Nicole Kelly is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow who received an MFA from the Programs In Writing at UC Irvine. Her work has appeared in Drunken Boat, ZYZZYVA, Fiction Southeast, and elsewhere.

Phoebe Ünter is a downtown Los Angeles-based graphic designer and journalist. She mothers a number of projects, including a quarterly arts and culture publication called "Get Down Town" and a feminist guerilla publishing collective.

Elyssa Dudley is an audio enthusiast rarely without a microphone and a belly full of pupusas. Her stories (about everything from witchcraft to bounce queens) have aired on KPCC, KCRW, and the worldwide web.

follow along with their feminist pursuits at http://bitchfacepodcast.tumblr.com/.