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Happy Anniversary Shark-Fu!


She mentioned this in her notes column on monday, but I wanted to highlight it again.
Today is the fifth anniversary of Shark-fu’s blog, Angry Black Bitch.
I love her blog origin story–the blog was actually an early birthday gift from a friend.
Shark-Fu is an indispensable voice in the blogosphere and I’m glad she’s kept her bitchitude going for five whole years. We’re also lucky to have her thoughts on Feministing once a week in her “Notes from a bitch” column.
So head on over and give her some anniversary loving. She’s also asking for donations to SAGE Metro St. Louis, which serves older LGBT folks.


She mentioned this in her notes column on monday, but I wanted to highlight it again.
Today is the fifth anniversary of Shark-fu’s blog, Angry Black Bitch.
I love her blog origin story–the blog ...

The Lies I Told Myself

Check out my friend Rodney’s amazing new More Life vlog, starting with this entry about his HIV misdiagnosis as a teenage boy in Texas. Rodney is a longtime community organizer, activist, and most recently, minister-in-training. He blends the political with the spiritual in really rare and important ways for a whole new generation.

Transcript after the jump by Maggie Froelich. Thank you Maggie!

Check out my friend Rodney’s amazing new More Life vlog, starting with this entry about his HIV misdiagnosis as a teenage boy in Texas. Rodney is a longtime community organizer, activist, and most recently, minister-in-training. He ...

The Feministing Five: Julie Zeilinger

Julie Zeilinger is the founder and editor of The F Bomb, a feminist blog run for and by teenagers. She’s a high school junior from Pepper Pike, Ohio, which makes the fact that she founded and manages a blog with contributors from all over the country all the more impressive. Zeilinger says that one of the greatest challenges has been juggling her high school commitments and her role as editor of the blog. She’s thrilled to have so many contributions to edit and so many comments to moderate, but notes that she would have started and maintained the site “even if no one ever read it; I needed to do it for me.”
The F Bomb, as ...

Julie Zeilinger is the founder and editor of The F Bomb, a feminist blog run for and by teenagers. She’s a high school junior from Pepper Pike, Ohio, which makes the fact that she ...

Would You Pay for the New York Times?


The word on the street is that the New York Times may be moving to a pay scale for viewing content online.

New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system.

As someone who writes for a website that provides ...


The word on the street is that the New York Times may be moving to a pay scale for viewing content online.

New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the ...

Bridging Women’s Studies and Cyber-Feminism

Miriam, Samhita, Jess, and I are headed to Hotlanta tomorrow for the National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference. We look forward to meeting readers there for the first time and reuniting with old friends. (And pretty please, if any community posters are there and get to see Angela Davis’ keynote tonight, please write about it. We were all dying to see it but couldn’t get out in time.)
Anyways, we’re doing a panel on bringing off line and on line feminisms more, well, in line. I thought I’d throw an excerpt of the abstract up here and see if anyone had any thoughts/questions for us as we head into our lil’ talk:

There is no question that the internet is ...

Miriam, Samhita, Jess, and I are headed to Hotlanta tomorrow for the National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference. We look forward to meeting readers there for the first time and reuniting with old friends. (And pretty ...

Economica

The International Museum of Women is always doing innovative, international work, so it came as no surprise when I discovered their most recent efforts: Economica. According to the site: “I.M.O.W.’s latest online exhibition explores the many facets of women’s experiences of and contributions to the global economy.”
You’ll find interesting podcasts, including Naila Kabeer talking about “the relationship between social justice, economic growth, and gender equity” and Julie Nelson challenging economic jargon. You’ll also find a great Q&A with Delores Huerta. I loved this excerpt:

In every one of our country’s movements and struggles, women have always been at the forefront-whether it was the worker’s movement, the civil rights movement, the peace movement or of course the women’s movement. Because ...

The International Museum of Women is always doing innovative, international work, so it came as no surprise when I discovered their most recent efforts: Economica. According to the site: “I.M.O.W.’s latest online exhibition explores the many ...

Some Reflections on Blogging and Feminist Scholarship.


Hey Folks! I’m back from my five week hiatus wherein I focused on life outside of the internet and worked on my MA thesis (which is almost done!) in Women and Gender Studies. In the last few weeks, I had the opportunity to push aside writing online to delve into my thesis research which is an exploration of the production of identity vis-à-vis the internet and specifically how people articulate, vet out and circulate ideas about race, gender, class and sexuality in online worlds. Academic writing is so different in many ways from journalistic or blog style writing; citations are more formal, arguments more nuanced, obviously pieces are longer and filled with complex terms. But in some ways it ...


Hey Folks! I’m back from my five week hiatus wherein I focused on life outside of the internet and worked on my MA thesis (which is almost done!) in Women and Gender Studies. In the last ...

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