Nice, huh! Courtesy of a Women Political Bloggers , a site that answers the question, “Where Are the Women Political Bloggers?” by posting a list of 250 of ’em. Ha.
blogging life
We know that men dominate the op-ed pages, left and right. (My friend Catherine Orenstein is doing much to counter that.) But you would think that in a new media mode, like the video opinion site Bloggingheads.tv, and the related feature at the New York Times online, there might be an effort to correct the imbalance from the start. Right? Wrong. I just did a count and only 3 of the 20 bloggingheads debating issues of the day at the New York Times online are women. And there’s nary a woman on Bloggingheads.tv homepage. I don’t know how the heads are chosen, but come on. Can’t we do a little better?
For those of you unfamiliar with this new opinion format–and for the female among you who are ready to step up and offer yourself up to Bloggingheads.tv–here are some samples:
I am inwardly jumping up and down with excitement at this news: feministing has won the Bloggers Choice Award for Best Political Blog–by a landslide! As the gals over there might say, hells yeah! Angryharry came in second, and DailyKos came in third.
My heartfelt congrats–and kudos!–to Jessica, Ann, Vanessa, Samhita, Courtney, and everyone else who works so hard to make feministing the sassy, savvy, edgy, witty, informative, provocative, intelligent blog that it is. And do check out the very prolific Jessica Valenti’s new book, already available for pre-order, here.
Friend plug alert! Two of my besties are doing very cool things in NYC this next week. On Sunday, Nov. 11, documentary filmmaker Ilana Trachtman will be screening her amazingly moving film, Praying with Lior, at theMargaret Mead Film Festival here at the Museum of Natural History. If you have the chance to see it–and Ilana is touring the country with it this year–do!
Then, on Monday, Nov. 12, Rebecca Wallace-Segall–the mastermind behind WritopiaLab–will be hosting a reading at the Lincoln Square B&N in which young writers from her workshops read from their work. Rebecca has also started a blog with her emerging writers, and is raising some interesting issues about youth, writing, imagination, and culture. For instance, she asks, “Can some video games (violent ones included) sometimes play a positive role in inspiring the minds of youth? Can they transcend their insidious time-wasting, violence-encouraging, obesity-making, inclinations?” Hmm…Marco?!
The bilingual parrot on my shoulder in this pic is named Compeche. He lives at the Gallery Inn, in Old San Juan, where we stayed for part of the week, weathering out a tropical storm….
But before anything else, a mongo shout out to Elizabeth Curtis, Alison Piepmeier, and the Catalyst gals (Cheryl, Emily, and Laura) for guest posting in my absence! Elizabeth has been a techy mentor to me these past months, leading me into the wilds of v-logging and elsewhere, and we’ve thrown in to do a panel together (along with Courtney Martin) at this summer’s National Women’s Studies Association–will let you know. In response to the Catalystas’ post, Marco (who cries, bless his male heart) once thought of a starting a blog (or something) called Real Men Cry at the Movies. I still think he should. And Alison is so spot on with her post in trying to figure out where and how the institutional fits in to a younger generation’s feminism, which has been labeled as largely engaged at the personal and symbolic levels. I love Courtney’s response to Alison’s post, which I’m elevating to post space in case you missed it. Writes Courtney:
In an age of social networking where everyone is painstakingly creating a profile of themselves online, adolescents get a crash course in the individual and the symbolic from day one, and repeated entres on a daily basis. I’m heartened that some of these social networking spaces are getting more political, as in Facebook’s cause function, but there is still so much more work to do if we are to reinvent what “social action” means to a new generation of feminists.
I strongly encourage GWP readers to check out these gals’ blogs: A Blog without a Bicycle (Elizabeth), Baxter Sez (Alison), Crucial Minutiae (Courtney–who is currently blogging from her midwest speaking tour). Also check out Alison’s snazzy new website–love the t-shirt she’s wearing, of course!
Slate has a new all-women blog. Check out The XX Factor. Here’s a self-reflexive post on their early reviews. Eager to check it out over time and see how it sounds. But hells, I say, welcome!
One of my alltime fave blogs, feministing, is a finalist for the Top 3 Political Blogs Blogger’s Choice Award. If you, like me, can’t live without the reportage, humor, and wit of these sassy savvy brave feminista ladies, vote for them! They’re up against sites like Daily Kos–also cool and probably a shoe-in, but how great would it be for our gals to win too. Voting ends today. Vote aqui.
(If this isn’t the creepiest image I’ve posted here–it’s from the Blogger’s Choice site, but I’m not holding it against them. Especially if feministing wins.)
As I’ve mentioned here before, photographer Emma Bee Bernstein and writer Nona Willis-Aronowitz (daughter of Ellen Willis) are writing a book based on a six-week road trip across the USA. I have a sense this book is going to be big. Read about it already in the Metro. They’re photographing and talking to young, smart, ambitious women about what they think and feel about feminism. They’re also talking to feminists of their mother’s generation and beyond, to ask them about the past and future of feminism. (Um, I am not their mothers’ generation but I got talked to about the future of feminism and let’s just say that Nona is another who I would follow anywhere. Love that girl.)
They started in Chicago, have taken weekend trips to Minneapolis and the Detroit area, and a couple days ago, they started on the long stretch across the country. I’ve set them up with my dear friend Shelby in Wyoming. Can’t wait to hear how that goes. Check out their blog, from the road, GIRLdrive. Here’s a lil taste:
Both of our mothers were deeply involved in Second Wave feminism, so we are closely connected to the movement’s history. But our roadtrip seeks to discover how other women our age grapple with this history of freedom, equality, joy, ambition, sex, and love.
This book is about our generation. It’s about gutsy young women across the American cityscape. It’s about the past and the present, and it glimmers on the future. It’s about the promise of the open road. It’s about us—girls with drive who can’t even take a road trip without turning it into a book.
Now how’s that, Jack Kerouac.
So, please check out their blog and comment away–but know that the blog comments are fair game for the book, hehe.
So the current issue of On Campus with Women –an online publication of the American Association of Colleges and Universities–focuses on “Women on the Web.” It includes an article on Facebook Feminism by Kathy Fischer, one called “Women Harnessing the Power of Internet Publishing” by Genevieve Brown, an essay on“Academic Blogging as Intercultural Exchange”, and a personal essay by moi, which begins:
Technological innovation can transform a culture, but it can also transform a career. It did mine. When I started out as a PhD student in English and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I could hardly imagine that fourteen years later I’d be calling myself “Girl with Pen†in public, living in New York City, and writing for The Guardian. That pen, really, is a keyboard. But I like mixing it up…. Read more
So here’s a little clip Elizabeth Curtis (a 20something mentee/tor o’ mine) and I did, as part of a larger project, as we like to say, about authors using the blogosphere to spread word about their books. Note: I was having a very bad hair day here. Please don’t hold it against me.
We know that men dominate the op-ed pages, left and right. (My friend Catherine Orenstein is doing much to counter that.) But you would think that in a new media mode, like the video opinion site Bloggingheads.tv, and the related feature at the New York Times online, there might be an effort to correct the imbalance from the start. Right? Wrong. I just did a count and only 3 of the 20 bloggingheads debating issues of the day at the New York Times online are women. And there’s nary a woman on Bloggingheads.tv homepage. I don’t know how the heads are chosen, but come on. Can’t we do a little better?
For those of you unfamiliar with this new opinion format–and for the female among you who are ready to step up and offer yourself up to Bloggingheads.tv–here are some samples:
I am inwardly jumping up and down with excitement at this news: feministing has won the Bloggers Choice Award for Best Political Blog–by a landslide! As the gals over there might say, hells yeah! Angryharry came in second, and DailyKos came in third.
My heartfelt congrats–and kudos!–to Jessica, Ann, Vanessa, Samhita, Courtney, and everyone else who works so hard to make feministing the sassy, savvy, edgy, witty, informative, provocative, intelligent blog that it is. And do check out the very prolific Jessica Valenti’s new book, already available for pre-order, here.
Friend plug alert! Two of my besties are doing very cool things in NYC this next week. On Sunday, Nov. 11, documentary filmmaker Ilana Trachtman will be screening her amazingly moving film, Praying with Lior, at theMargaret Mead Film Festival here at the Museum of Natural History. If you have the chance to see it–and Ilana is touring the country with it this year–do!
Then, on Monday, Nov. 12, Rebecca Wallace-Segall–the mastermind behind WritopiaLab–will be hosting a reading at the Lincoln Square B&N in which young writers from her workshops read from their work. Rebecca has also started a blog with her emerging writers, and is raising some interesting issues about youth, writing, imagination, and culture. For instance, she asks, “Can some video games (violent ones included) sometimes play a positive role in inspiring the minds of youth? Can they transcend their insidious time-wasting, violence-encouraging, obesity-making, inclinations?” Hmm…Marco?!
The bilingual parrot on my shoulder in this pic is named Compeche. He lives at the Gallery Inn, in Old San Juan, where we stayed for part of the week, weathering out a tropical storm….
But before anything else, a mongo shout out to Elizabeth Curtis, Alison Piepmeier, and the Catalyst gals (Cheryl, Emily, and Laura) for guest posting in my absence! Elizabeth has been a techy mentor to me these past months, leading me into the wilds of v-logging and elsewhere, and we’ve thrown in to do a panel together (along with Courtney Martin) at this summer’s National Women’s Studies Association–will let you know. In response to the Catalystas’ post, Marco (who cries, bless his male heart) once thought of a starting a blog (or something) called Real Men Cry at the Movies. I still think he should. And Alison is so spot on with her post in trying to figure out where and how the institutional fits in to a younger generation’s feminism, which has been labeled as largely engaged at the personal and symbolic levels. I love Courtney’s response to Alison’s post, which I’m elevating to post space in case you missed it. Writes Courtney:
In an age of social networking where everyone is painstakingly creating a profile of themselves online, adolescents get a crash course in the individual and the symbolic from day one, and repeated entres on a daily basis. I’m heartened that some of these social networking spaces are getting more political, as in Facebook’s cause function, but there is still so much more work to do if we are to reinvent what “social action” means to a new generation of feminists.
I strongly encourage GWP readers to check out these gals’ blogs: A Blog without a Bicycle (Elizabeth), Baxter Sez (Alison), Crucial Minutiae (Courtney–who is currently blogging from her midwest speaking tour). Also check out Alison’s snazzy new website–love the t-shirt she’s wearing, of course!
Slate has a new all-women blog. Check out The XX Factor. Here’s a self-reflexive post on their early reviews. Eager to check it out over time and see how it sounds. But hells, I say, welcome!
One of my alltime fave blogs, feministing, is a finalist for the Top 3 Political Blogs Blogger’s Choice Award. If you, like me, can’t live without the reportage, humor, and wit of these sassy savvy brave feminista ladies, vote for them! They’re up against sites like Daily Kos–also cool and probably a shoe-in, but how great would it be for our gals to win too. Voting ends today. Vote aqui.
(If this isn’t the creepiest image I’ve posted here–it’s from the Blogger’s Choice site, but I’m not holding it against them. Especially if feministing wins.)
As I’ve mentioned here before, photographer Emma Bee Bernstein and writer Nona Willis-Aronowitz (daughter of Ellen Willis) are writing a book based on a six-week road trip across the USA. I have a sense this book is going to be big. Read about it already in the Metro. They’re photographing and talking to young, smart, ambitious women about what they think and feel about feminism. They’re also talking to feminists of their mother’s generation and beyond, to ask them about the past and future of feminism. (Um, I am not their mothers’ generation but I got talked to about the future of feminism and let’s just say that Nona is another who I would follow anywhere. Love that girl.)
They started in Chicago, have taken weekend trips to Minneapolis and the Detroit area, and a couple days ago, they started on the long stretch across the country. I’ve set them up with my dear friend Shelby in Wyoming. Can’t wait to hear how that goes. Check out their blog, from the road, GIRLdrive. Here’s a lil taste:
Both of our mothers were deeply involved in Second Wave feminism, so we are closely connected to the movement’s history. But our roadtrip seeks to discover how other women our age grapple with this history of freedom, equality, joy, ambition, sex, and love.
This book is about our generation. It’s about gutsy young women across the American cityscape. It’s about the past and the present, and it glimmers on the future. It’s about the promise of the open road. It’s about us—girls with drive who can’t even take a road trip without turning it into a book.
Now how’s that, Jack Kerouac.
So, please check out their blog and comment away–but know that the blog comments are fair game for the book, hehe.
So the current issue of On Campus with Women –an online publication of the American Association of Colleges and Universities–focuses on “Women on the Web.” It includes an article on Facebook Feminism by Kathy Fischer, one called “Women Harnessing the Power of Internet Publishing” by Genevieve Brown, an essay on“Academic Blogging as Intercultural Exchange”, and a personal essay by moi, which begins:
Technological innovation can transform a culture, but it can also transform a career. It did mine. When I started out as a PhD student in English and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I could hardly imagine that fourteen years later I’d be calling myself “Girl with Pen†in public, living in New York City, and writing for The Guardian. That pen, really, is a keyboard. But I like mixing it up…. Read more
So here’s a little clip Elizabeth Curtis (a 20something mentee/tor o’ mine) and I did, as part of a larger project, as we like to say, about authors using the blogosphere to spread word about their books. Note: I was having a very bad hair day here. Please don’t hold it against me.
