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This month's feature topic is "Feminist Blogs - Taking the Personal into the Political." Blogs - short for Web logs are regularly updated online journals. Highly personal, some are the intimate or day-today thoughts of a person while others are a critical analysis of the daily media. Just like reading someone's diary, some are as light as air and some are fascinating. There is a huge range of feminist blogs out there - some written by well-known women like feminist comedian Margaret Cho and others written by anonymous women. A smattering of links are provided below, but the best thing about reading blogs is stumbling upon them so exploring is the central aim. When you find one you like they can be surprisingly addictive, in the meantime it's nice just to know there are plenty of other feminist women out there. You won't agree with everything you read on a feminist blog, but they're interactive - you can post a comment on their website and take part in a conversation with the author. The following blog links were taken from Ms Magazine site where plenty of other blogs are linked also. http://www.msmagazine.com/blog/default.asp
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“I am woman, read my blog! Blogs by women! “ http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=blogsbywomen;action=list
“Is it possible to integrate feminist ideals with a nurturing lifestyle? Yes! The Feminist Mothers WebRing [FMWR] links together sites created by nurturing thinking women. Must contain original content about feminist, women's, or mothering issues. Must value the feminine viewpoint. Attachment oriented sites encouraged. Limited to non-commercial sites by women.” http://q.webring.com/hub?ring=feministmom
“Let's go to England and get married. It's legal there, and it isn't about special privileges, it is about the fact that they recognize same sex partnerships there as real relationships, and not perverse oddities, as we are viewed by some here in the United States. I am in fact quite in favor of going to the UK because people are smart there, and even nice in the most unexpected ways. I was walking with a friend in Liverpool, and it was hot and strangely steamy, the way the north can be in late summer, and we were complaining loudly about how thirsty we were, and this little girl turned around and offered me her orange soda….” http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/blog.htm
“Fat Girl Week In A Day or a waist is a terrible thing to mind. I was going to stretch this out over a week. Make it a celebration of Fat. A festival. A feast. but I'm busy and I don't always make it to the computer everyday. So fine, it's Fat Girl Week in a day. I learned to hate my body from my mother. She learned it from hers. It's a family trait, like being smart, creative, beautiful and fat-an intimate heirloom.” http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=bettydoeslife
“I don't love disclaimers, but here's one: This post is personal, I'm in no mood to be judged, so if you're here looking for fodder to be unpleasant, just go away. This will probably, amusingly enough, encourage the very people I wish to deter. The responses to this week's topic on We Have Brains has really gotten under my skin.…” http://potebrigitte.diaryland.com/
“Today, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell came and spoke to my Women's Studies class. Sometime during her talk, she mentioned Susan B. Anthony, and I was transported momentarily back to childhood. If you met my mother and spoke with her for an hour or so, you wouldn't guess right off that she is a feminist. I don't even know if she's say she is, but I can tell you that when I was born, she named me Clancy because she'd heard the name on Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley's 1970s morning show and liked the fact that it was a little gender-ambiguous.” http://www.culturecat.net/
“Jenny, the character that Mia Kirshner plays on The L Word, has become the most talked about part of the new hit series. Is she just young, confused and in the process of finding herself, or is she a lying, manipulative, selfish bitch? Personally, I find myself talking (yelling) at my set every time she appears. How can she be so lame? Why doesn't anyone else see that she is such a lousy writer? She is such a loser! But Mia Kirshner is adorable, even if the character she plays is not. In a story similar to Mary Cheney's, David Knight is caught between his sexual identity and his father's political views. David's father, (William J. "Pete" Knight), an elected California politician, is the state's most outspoken opponent to same-sex marriage, and the architect of California's Defense of Marriage Act. Last month, David and his partner of ten years, Joseph Lazzaro were married in San Francisco. As you can imagine, this caused a rift in the Knight family. David recently talked about his decision and his father's reaction. A very inspiring story--I admire him for sticking up for his love.” http://blogs.salon.com/0001883/
“I'm a biologist, an Apple/Unix geek, an audiophile, an avid reader and film buff, and an amateur (in both the inept and unpaid senses) photographer. I live and work in Oxford (the one in the UK, for any US readers) - a surreal place at the best of times. I apparently do not have the gene for interest in make-up, clothes or celebrities. Believe me, I've tried to be interested. I've even bought so-called "Women's magazines", convinced that I can't be so psychologically different from the rest of female-kind. But eventually I realized that I just do not have any interest in them, and now I just head straight for the computer/hi-fi magazines aisle. This makes time spent in the hairdressers very dull. Don't get me wrong - in respects other than my interests, I am resolutely female. I like the toilet seat left down (dammit), I worry about the cleanliness of my carpets, and I don't find farting amusing. You might be thinking, "but surely we've got past this kind of gender stereotyping?" I thought so too, but the name of this blog comes from a particular look I get given at some point when I talk to someone (usually male) who knows (or thinks he knows) a great deal about a technical subject…..” http://www.houseofplum.com/plumcrazy/
“Blogging was discovered by my friend, anne, and passed along to me. I jumped on the bandwagon and eventually tried to convince all of my friends worth having to create one as well. many did, but few kept up with it the way anne and i have. although i often get tired of blogging, i like representing myself on the internet in ways that are sometimes interesting, but most often highly exaggerated and fairly immature. this, too, is why i enjoy it. at one point in my time at University, i wasted everyone's time in a COM class talking about blogging. my instructor looked up my blog and discovered that i had talked badly about her. this is one consequence of having a public self…..” http://feministe.us/
“I also remember, during that same era, my parents' friends teasing me about being a "women's libber", as feminists were called in those days. You ask me, "When did you become a feminist?" As soon as I learned how to think. I am in my late thirties, and will celebrate my next birthday in October. I'm looking forward to turning 40. Really. I am. In case the amateur quality of these pages didn't give it away, I am not much of a programmer or tech geek. I'm more of a liberal arts geek - I have Ph.D. in Speech Communication, and earn my living as a university professor. It's a great job - it's about as close as you can get to remaining a student for the rest of your life, and you don't have to pay tuition anymore. I am married, without children. It is possible to be a fully self-actualized adult, and have no desire to have children.” http://ladida.org/
“The Wall St. Journal is the most schizophrenic publication in America; it has some of the best reporting around, but the editorial page is written by people on heavy psychotropic drugs.” http://www.suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/
“Yo Mama's Maternal Feminist Agenda” http://yomamasays.org/
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ARTICLE RESEARCHED AND COLLATED FOR THE APRIL 2004 NEWSLETTER
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