By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 13 years ago

Happy birthday to us!

Today is Feministing’s 7th birthday!

On this day back in 2004, Jessica and Vanessa founded Feministing.com. Today we are the world’s most-read feminist publication, and home to a vibrant online feminist community.

There’s been a lot of blogging, a lot of activism, and a fair bit of cursing and drinking, too (what would feminism be without the cursing and the drinking?) We are thrilled that you readers are out there, reading and commenting and engaging with the issues we write about every day.

Feministing, as you know, is a labor of love; we don’t do it for the money, we do it because it matters to us and because it brings us satisfaction and joy (and sometimes it brings us a world of trouble but mostly it brings satisfaction, joy and a sense that we have a chance to change the world in our own small ways). Thanks, readers, for hanging out with us here, for engaging with our writing and for pushing back when you don’t agree with us.

Oh, and if April 12th is your birthday too, happy birthday!

Lots of love,

The Feministing Crew.

New York, NY

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia.

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