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Feminist bloggers featured in New York Magazine

The very awesome Emily Nussbaum has an article in this week’s New York Magazine featuring feminist bloggers. The article is running in conjunction with a feature about the 40 year anniversary of Ms. Magazine and gives a brief history of the rise, importance, paradox and evolution of blogging. Similar to the conversations surrounding Ms. Magazine, blog conversations are diverse, sloppy and the very basis of current feminist activism.

Ms. magazine was a crucial publication, and I read every issue of it up until 1994, when its out-of-touch porn-debate issue irritated me sufficiently that I put it down forever. But as many women as Ms. spoke to and for, it rarely featured the kind of swashbuckling manifestos that supercharged so much of ...

By Jos Truitt • 12 years ago

A Gay Girl in Damascus a hoax

The real person behind the Amina lie: Tom MacMaster.

Last week a post on the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, supposedly from the blogger’s cousin, reported the blog’s author Amina Arraf had been kidnapped by security forces. Other bloggers, including myself, posted to raise awareness and encourage folks to take action. Others who had been following the story and noticed information on the blog that seemed fishy began digging. Now the truth has come out.

Amina is actually Tom MacMaster, a married straight white man from the US. The widely circulated photos of Amina were pictures of Jelena Lecic that MacMaster stole.

MacMaster’s statement on the blog after he was outed is dripping with self-righteousness:

I do not believe ...

The real person behind the Amina lie: Tom MacMaster.

Last week a post on the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, supposedly from the blogger’s cousin, reported the blog’s author Amina Arraf had been kidnapped by security ...

By Jos Truitt • 12 years ago

A Gay Girl in Damascus blogger kidnapped: Take action!

Amina Abdallah Araf, who writes the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus where she speaks critically about Syrian politics, was kidnapped on Monday. Her cousin reports:

Earlier today, at approximately 6:00 pm Damascus time, Amina was walking in the area of the Abbasid bus station, near Fares al Khouri Street. She had gone to meet a person involved with the Local Coordinating Committee and was accompanied by a friend.

Amina told the friend that she would go ahead and they were separated. Amina had, apparently, identified the person she was to meet. However, while her companion was still close by, Amina was seized by three men in their early 20’s. According to the witness (who does not want her identity ...

Amina Abdallah Araf, who writes the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus where she speaks critically about Syrian politics, was kidnapped on Monday. Her cousin reports:

Earlier today, at approximately 6:00 pm Damascus time, Amina was ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

A blog you should be reading: Crunk Feminist Collective

I’ve been following the Crunk Feminist Collective for a while now, and their writing is really on-point and not to be missed. They turned one this month (happy anniversary!) so I thought they deserved a shout-out.

A bit from their mission statement:

The Crunk Feminist Collective (CFC) will create a space of support and camaraderie for hip hop generation feminists of color, queer and straight, in the academy and without, by building a rhetorical community, in which we can discuss our ideas, express our crunk feminist selves, fellowship with one another, debate and challenge one another, and support each other, as we struggle together to articulate our feminist goals, ideas, visions, and dreams in ...

A ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

What We Missed

The Democratic Leadership Council has ceased its operations.

The Women’s Media Center has an incredible piece by Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi on the revolution in Egypt. Also, Wael Ghonim, the Google executive that helped start the protests, has been freed from detention.

An interview with Julie Zeilinger, teenage feminist and founder of the awesome blog, The FBomb.

A fantastic comic by Jen Sorenson on the “Protect Life” Act.

In or around the NYC area? Support reproductive justice? Love trivia? Then go to this.

The Democratic Leadership Council has ceased its operations.

The Women’s Media Center has an incredible piece by Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi on the revolution in Egypt. Also, Wael Ghonim, the Google executive that ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

Awesome blog alert: Microaggressions

Sometimes, it’s the little things. When it comes racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of intolerance, structural and institutional oppression can be hard to see. In day to day life, it can be hard to put your finger on systemic discrimination and to identify the exact forces that continue to privilege some groups in American society over others.

But when it comes to interpersonal interactions, those forces are easier to identify. Microaggressions is a blog that catalogs those small expressions of inequality, from a parent who pointedly leaves newspaper articles about HIV lying around for her gay son to see to a white classmate claiming, on MLK Day no less, that she’s been discriminated against because she’s white.

It’s ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

Salon closes Broadsheet.

Well this really sucks. Salon has decided to shut down its brilliant feminist blog, Broadsheet. Via Editor-in-Chief Kerry Lauerman:

No feature in Salon’s history kicked up the amount of righteous dust and ad hominem rage as Broadsheet, which debuted in 2005 and filed its last regular post on Dec. 21. We’re immensely proud of the role it’s played raising intensely important questions about women’s issues in politics, pop culture and way beyond. For much of the last year, Broadsheet has been a one-woman show performed by Tracy Clark-Flory. She’s done a terrific job, but it’s time for her to move on to focus her attention on stories that she’s most ...

Well this really sucks. Salon has decided to shut down its brilliant feminist blog, Broadsheet. Via Editor-in-Chief Kerry Lauerman:

No feature in Salon’s history kicked up the amount of righteous dust and ad ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Five: Melissa Silverstein

Melissa Silverstein is the brains behind the blog Women and Hollywood, a feminist perspective of how gender works in the movie industry. Silverstein started the blog several years ago to fill what she perceived as a gap in the online discussion about the entertainment industry, and has pledged that the blog will exist “until women are equal in all areas of entertainment.” Women represent more than half of moviegoers, and yet Hollywood, where those movies are made, is very much a man’s world. Women are still desperately underrepresented among the ranks of directors and producers, and women actresses face very specific gendered pressures that male actors do not face. At Women and Hollywood, Silverstein reviews movies, interviews behind ...