{"id":3188,"date":"2011-11-13T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2011-11-13T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:50:48","slug":"gwp-nwsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/11\/13\/gwp-nwsa\/","title":{"rendered":"GWP @ NWSA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just off the plane from a fabulous trip to Atlanta for the National Women’s Studies Association Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 Thought I’d share my opening remarks from Girl w\/Pen’s session, “Gone Virtual: Opportunities and Challenges for Feminist Scholar-Bloggers.”\u00a0 Thanks to everyone who came and participated in the Roundtable, and to those who weren’t able to be there, I hope these postings help! <\/em><\/p>\n

It’s an honor to be here in real space with these women with whom I share a platform virtually.\u00a0 A bit about the history of Girl w\/Pen: In 2007, when my first book (Only Child) came out, and then my second (Sisterhood, Interrupted), I started a blog.\u00a0 It’s mission morphed as I did, becoming eventually a group platform designed to “bridge feminist research and popular reality.”\u00a0 Today, we are a collaborative blog of 10 scholar-bloggers across disciplines–all of them what I would call “engaged scholars,” women who are not only modeling something important for their students (namely, engagement in a more public form of dialogue) but reinventing what it means to be a feminist scholar along the way.\u00a0 They’re going to share with you how blogging for a larger audience impacts their research, their writing, and their teaching, and how collaborative blogging can serve broader feminist goals.<\/p>\n

But first, a quick comment about why it’s particularly interesting and important to be blogging NOW.\u00a0 The blogosphere is remaking the media.\u00a0 It’s part of media, sure, but it’s also proactively shaping, often, what becomes news.\u00a0 I’ve recently teamed up with The OpEd Project <\/a>and have been teaching seminars with them.\u00a0 A big part of what we talk about there is women’s imperative to contribute to public forums and public debate given our woeful underrepresentation in the nation–indeed, the world’s–most public and prominent thought leadership forums.<\/p>\n

How many of you blog?\u00a0 How many of the rest of you would like to blog but feel you have no time to?<\/p>\n

My hope, by the end of our session this morning, after hearing what these scholar-bloggers next to me have to say about it all, is that the question becomes not how can I possibly add blogging to my already packed life but how can I not.<\/p>\n

Panelist introductions:<\/p>\n

Heather Hewett is an Assistant Professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies. \u00a0Her work\u00a0has been published in a range of academic and popular venues, including\u00a0Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0Brain, Child, <\/em>and in several edited collections, including\u00a0Chick Lit: The New Woman\u2019s Fiction. <\/em>She writes and edits the “Global Mama” column for GWP.<\/p>\n

Veronica I. Arreola is the assistant director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender and the director of the Women in Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A veteran blogger, her own blog, Viva la Feminista, is where she discusses the intersection between feminism and motherhood. She holds a bachelors degree in Biological Sciences and a masters in Public Administration, both with concentrations in Gender and Women\u2019s Studies. She began work on her Ph.D. in Public Administration last year.\u00a0 She writes the Science Grrl column at GWP.<\/p>\n

Alison Piepmeier directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, where she’s an associate professor of English.\u00a0 Her most recent book is Girl Zines:\u00a0 Making Media, Doing Feminism<\/em> (NYU Press, 2009).\u00a0 She’s a member of the NWSA Governing Council.\u00a0 She writes the Body Language column at GWP.<\/p>\n

Allison Kimmich has led the National Women’s Studies Association since 2004. \u00a0Most recently she has guided the Association’s Teagle-grant funded research on women’s studies and civic engagement. \u00a0She holds a PhD in women’s studies from Emory University.\u00a0 She writes the Girl Talk column for Girl w\/Pen.<\/p>\n

Kyla Bender-Baird is a Doctoral Student at the CUNY Graduate Center where she focuses on sociology of gender, embodiment, and the law.\u00a0 Her book, Transgender Employment Experiences, <\/em>was released this fall by SUNY Press.\u00a0 Prior to returning to graduate school, Kyla worked at the National Council for Research on Women where she served as the managing editor of their blog (among other things).<\/p>\n

And I’m Deborah Siegel. (Bio and all that stuff at www.deborahsiegel.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A quick note about how the blog itself works: We’re each “editors” and welcome guest posts that fall under the broad rubic of our particular columns.\u00a0 We also welcome guest posts on other topics as well.\u00a0 (See the guidelines<\/a>, and use our contact form<\/a> to get in touch with our fellow blogger and webmaster Avory Faucette!)<\/p>\n

FROM THE HANDOUT…<\/em><\/p>\n

CHECK OUT PANELISTS\u2019 COLUMNS AND SAMPLE POSTS<\/strong>
\nSCIENCE GRRL \/ Veronica Arreola Can We Whistle Stereotypes Away?<\/a>
\nBODY POLITIC\u00a0 \/ Kyla Bender-Baird Love Your (NonNormative) Body <\/a>\u2013 a dialogue with Kyla and Avory
\nGLOBAL MAMA \/ Heather Hewett Maternal Health, One Year Later<\/a>
\nGIRL TALK\u00a0 \/ Allison Kimmich The Other Sex Talk<\/a>
\nBODY LANGUAGE \/ Alison Piepmeier High Expectations<\/a>
\nMAMA W\/PEN\u00a0 \/ Deborah Siegel Midlife Mama Asks Whether We\u2019re All Too Isolated to Fight the Pink-v.-Blue Battle Outside Our Homes<\/a><\/p>\n

OTHER VENUES WHERE GIRL W\/PENNERS BLOG<\/strong>
\nBaxter Sez<\/a>
\nMs. Magazine Blog<\/a>
\nThe Pink & Blue Diaries <\/a>
\nViva la Feminista<\/a>
\nThe Real Deal <\/a><\/p>\n

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