Posts Tagged #SYTYCB

By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Sesali Bowen

Sesali Bowen is the training director for United States Student Association, a progressive non-profit that fights for and organizes students across the country. She’s also one of our newest contributors from our So You Think You Can Blog contest. She wrote about being fat and visible at the intersections, what we can learn from women rappers, and bravely asked what if Shidea Lane wasn’t a woman of color. She also blogs at Bad Bitch Society.

When she’s not writing amazing feminist analyses for the site, she’s doing jigsaw puzzles, online window shopping, reading, and writing.

And now, without further ado, the Feministing Five, with Sesali Bowen.

Anna Sterling: When did you begin to identify as feminist?

Sesali Bowen: I ...

Sesali Bowen is the training director for United States Student Association, a progressive non-profit that fights for and organizes students across the country. She’s also one of our newest contributors from our So You Think You ...
By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Amy S. Choi

Amy S. Choi is a freelance journalist based out of Brooklyn, NY and one of three winners in our So You Think You Can Blog contest. Her work has appeared in BusinessWeek, Women’s Wear Daily, The Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, and The Wall Street Journal, to name a few. She also sits on the board of Ugly Duckling Presse, an independent publisher in Brooklyn, that specializes in poetry.

A feminist in her free time, she volunteers with Girls Write Now, the premier writing program for high school girls in NYC, mentoring a high school senior. The three places she calls home are Chicago, New York and Hawaii. In 2010, she spent a month doing a Buddha pilgrimage ...

Amy S. Choi is a freelance journalist based out of Brooklyn, NY and one of three winners in our So You Think You Can Blog contest. Her work has appeared in BusinessWeek, Women’s Wear Daily, The ...
By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Alexandra Brodsky

Alexandra Brodsky is one of our newest contributors to the site. She’s one out of three winners in our first ever blogging contest– So You Think You Can Blog. She recently graduated from Yale and started work at a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Zambia.  We’re pretty big fans of hers here at the site. And we have been for awhile. In 2011, we wrote about Alexandra and how she helped bring a Title IX complaint against Yale. It resulted in a serious restructuring of the school’s anti-sexual violence policies and programs.

She got her feminist blogging start with Yale’s online feminist magazine Broad Recognition. She also co-ran the school’s center for public service and social justice, and performed ...

Alexandra Brodsky is one of our newest contributors to the site. She’s one out of three winners in our first ever blogging contest– So You Think You Can Blog. She recently graduated from Yale and started ...
By Lori Adelman • 12 years ago

Announcing your new Feministing contributors: Sesali, Alexandra and Amy!!

This summer, Feministing held a contest to look for a brand new Contributor. We were looking for someone to join the Feministing team and blog for us once a week — someone who’s smart, funny, insightful, reliable, and raring to go.

Well, I’m sorry to say we didn’t find one qualified candidate in the bunch…

We found three.

We want to thank everyone who participated in the contest, and especially the 6 finalists. We were so thrilled, humbled, and honestly overwhelmed by the responses that came in. We loved all of the entries and it was so hard to narrow it down.

That said, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome Alexandra, Sesali, and Amy to the Feministing team. Check out their bios ...

This summer, Feministing held a contest to look for a brand new Contributor. We were looking for someone to join the Feministing team and blog for us once a week — someone who’s smart, funny, insightful, ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 12 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: This is How You Lose Her


Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest member of the Feministing team will be announced next week!

One of my closest friends—let’s call him Sal—worries about how the angry Reddit dudes are doing. Nonstop aggression, violation, transphobia, misogyny, and rape apologism are problematic, he explained to me on a search for the perfect afternoon snack, but they grow out of the loneliness of the ...

Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering ...
So You Think You Can Blog logo. Features the mudflap girl dancing. Image by Patrick Sheehan
By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

Announcing our new Contributor contest: So You Think You Can Blog?

Want to write for Feministing? Want to be the next Lori Adelman, or the next Zerlina Maxwell? Want to join one of the most read and most respected feminist commentary teams on the internet? Want to make the world a fiercer, funnier, more feminist place? This is the chance you’ve been waiting for.

Feministing is looking for a new Contributor. We’re looking for someone to join the Feministing team and blog for us once a week — someone who’s smart, funny, insightful, reliable, and raring to go. To that end, we’re holding a little contest.

Here’s how it’s going to work.

Next week, contestants who want to be considered must write two blog posts on the Community blog between Monday the ...

Want to write for Feministing? Want to be the next Lori Adelman, or the next Zerlina Maxwell? Want to join one of the most read and most respected feminist commentary teams on the internet? Want to ...