This is for the younger feminist crowd out there. I co-moderate a blog/chat for pre-teen and teen girls. The girl who started the blog (Mon) falls into one of those categories, and i'm the blog's big sister.

Mon writes about her life, what's going on at school and at home, while i write about feminism and try to empower the girls who read our site.

We're only a fledgling blog right now, so we would love it if people would come check us out. Thanks!
http://chicablog.wordpress.com/

My feminist superpower would be the ability to change people's minds. Or to shut them up long enough to listen to what I have to say.

But I'd settle for plain ol' telekinesis. :)

I organise and edit a new blog called "Women talk to the G8".

http://opensummit.opendemocracy.net

It will run for three weeks, and gather thoughts and opinions from NGO representatives, activists and women bloggers on what could be practically done by the G8 to improve women's lives. They also talk about their field experiences on work.

The focus is Africa/Asia but there will be posts from US bloggers as well.

Our main topics are: climate change and gender, migration and women, women's health, women's rights, leadership and economic empowerment.

See you there :P

-Jessica

I have a blog that is linked with my username. I post a few times a month, but some may find it interesting. More importantly, however, I just created a Facebook group called "Jerry Falwell Down, Fred Phelps to Go". I'm sure pretty much everyone here agrees, so if you have a facebook, make a search for the group and feel free to add me as a friend.

That being said, I would love to have the powers of Mystique in X-Men. And then I would like to have hot, shape-shifting sex with Hugh Jackman.

I love shameless self-promotion.
Let's see... I have a post up about the MJ statue, and how it relates, more generally, to the comic industry.

In that same grain, I have a post about why I don't like Wonder Woman's costume, and a critique of the costumes of several other women.

A feminist superpower... hmmmm... how about the ability to reflect a person's bigotry back at them so that they really understand all the fucked up shit they've done and have a chance to experience what it would really be like to walk in someone else's shoes for a change?

I have a drug policy reform blog. I talk about the war on drugs and all the ways that it is harming society. Here is my favorite post but you should really read them all. I am that good.

http://blamethedrugwar.blogspot.com/

Well I can't resist shamelessly plugging myself so... here's an entry I wrote recently after an enlightening trip to Planned Parenthood: http://lilaeden.livejournal.com/44518.html

It isn't prolific stuff, really, but I never pretended to be. :)

Woo Hoo!

Okay, my blog is only about a month old, called The Curvature, and linked to my name as well. It's a feminist blog and I post at least once every day, so check me out.

Here's my favorite post of the week, so far, where I talk about why feminists need to pay more attention to GLBTQ issues:

GLBTQ Issues are Feminist Issues

My feminist superpower would be to make any man feel every fear and insecurity of any woman within arm's reach of him. Because I think that, for the vast, vast majority, if they knew how things were for their mothers, sisters and intimate partners, they would change.

Babeland (the feminist sex toy store) has a blog written by yours truly. I review toys, give sex tips, talk about sexuality, post pertinent news articles, etc. It's a really fun blog to write and I would love to have more readers!

Hmm . . . why is my comment being moderated?

Cara, sorry about that. It's up now. TypeKey has a weird thing going on where it holds comments with several links in it because it thinks they're spam...

I have just started a blog to showcase a paper on feminist blogging as a third wave feminist legal method, Feministing included of course! Please take a look and let me know if you have any suggestions. There will be more postings next week!

http://hermanifesta.blogspot.com

My feminist superpower would be that whenever I see a man or a woman in a disempowering situation in the media (i.e a beer ad that belittles men for the girliness or that awful Captivity movie) I'd be able to instantly replace it with an empowering image.
That, or the ability to make the heads of people like Jerry Falwell & Pat Robertson explode (Even though nature has taken care of Jerry for me--thanks!).
My blog isn't an "official" blog--it's mostly about my life but feminism & politics play a pretty big part in it. Checka dis; http://dru-plus-spike.livejournal.com. expect big doses of pop culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer references, & updates on each & every one of my nutty schemes.

1) My feminist superpower would be getting people to understand what it means to be a feminist!

2) I write a blog on feminist mothering and related issues at:

http://www.motherblogs.net/jessica

Please stop by and comment!

My superpower would be like Christmas Yet to Come to show people how their actions might play out in real life.

I ain't got no blog, so...My feminist super-power would be NerdyFunGyrl -- this would be a superhero for all those gyrls out there who are kinda geeky, like to get silly, don't care about makeup/clothes/hair/ fill-in-the-blank-girl-stuff, and actually take the initiative with things like *sex* and *fierce intellectual debate*.... Hmmm....

My feminist superpower would simply be to force people to listen to everything that comes out of their mouths. I honestly think that if more people really listened to what they were saying, there'd be more feminists out there.

I have a LiveJournal, but most of it is friends-locked these days (it would be a very BAD THING for my soon-to-be-ex-husband to find out too much about what's going on in my life right now). So that wouldn't be too useful for y'all.

However, I do have a requested feminist superpower. I want the ability to replace people's words with what they actually mean. For instance, a guy who says, "Lots of girls lie about rape to punish men," might be revealed to be saying, "Having committed one or more rape acts in my life, I'd like people to not believe any of the victims if they come forward."

Not really a feminist blog, but I'm at A Little Bit Country, and I also blog for Ditch Mitch McConnell.

Mmm...feminist superpower...I would love for lazer beams from my ta-tas. Nuff said. :)

I recently started a blog ( http://www.wheresmyreflection.blogspot.com/ )in the vein of my personal feminist critiques. It started kinda all over the place, but i'm focusing it more on a critique of televison.
I'd love to have more hilarious contributors if people want to leave their thoughts.
As far as a superpower goes... i would like to be able to instantly know all the ingredients, means of production and packaging expierence of anything i touch. For example, i would like to know, upon touching an apple in a grocery store, where it was grown, what, if any pestacides were used, who picked it, what their working conditions were, how far it travled to the store, etc.

I blog at http://quinnstephens.com/blog.
There's no particular focus and I'm not very good about updating, but I think that at least ikkin will enjoy my latest post.

I'd like a feminist power along the lines of Roni's and Rin's. But I'll take telekinesis, too, if it's being offered. That would rock.

Thanks for this opportunity!

I am a freelance journalist, and a master's degree in social work candidate in Columbia University's School of Social Work. I recently completed a 16-week volunteer writing facilitator position in a Florida prison for women. The idea was to empower these women through the use of words.

I have a blog called Social Justice Feminist, which speaks to just about everyone. I try to update it every couple of days. Sometimes I have (very) long entries about my thoughts on an issue, and other times I list of headlines that I feel are important in understanding why feminism is very important in our world.

I also co-manage a site called Epidermic, which is intended to smash racism through a tool called education.

Hope you visit both sites!!

I'm a standup comic and I wrote this week about why I don't laugh at fat girl jokes. My blog is carriecallahan.blogspot.com

I have a newish blog called The Din of Inequity where I write, somewhat infrequently, about feminism and law from a BC perspective.

My favourite recent post was about a Gazette article espousing an increase in the domestic birthrate as a way of cutting the "costs" of immigration.

[None of which may interest you if you're not Canadian or really, really, bored :)]

I have a post up about the Oliver North article you referenced yesterday!

http://delightfullydogmatic.blogspot.com/

I have a post up about the Oliver North article you referenced yesterday!

http://delightfullydogmatic.blogspot.com/

The National Women's Law Center has recently launched Womenstake.org to promote and inform timely discussions of a broad range of issues affecting women. We're also starting a series analyzing the problematic points of the Carhart decision (now that the initial shock has subsided). Let us know what you think!

I have a livejournal that I update almost daily. Not too long ago I did a little bit of analysis of Alanis Morisette's parody of "My Humps".

I think my favorite feminist superpower would be Woleverine-like claws (actually, my City of Heroes character is a claws scrapper)... I suppose it's not feminist-specific per se, except that when someone accuses a woman of being catty, I can yell something like, "I've got your cat right here, buddy"...

My blog, Out and Back, is where I blather about whatever's on my mind. I've been putting up a lot of photos from my work-related travels, as well. I went off a bit on Falwell today and yesterday, so those posts are up if anyone's interested.

If I could have any feminist superpower, it would be the power to make men experience body dysmorphia the way women do... so they can better appreciate the appearance-related crap we have to deal with on a day to day basis. (I have this vision in my head of a bunch of straight guys asking each other, "do these jeans make my ass look big?")

Hi, I'm a longtime reader, but this is my first comment here, I think.

Shameless self-promotion: my thoughts about the compatibility of feminism, liberal values, and selective abortion.

My feminist power would be a point-of-view ray (like the empathy inducing gun in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) that I could shoot out of my fingertips.

I've noticed that most responses so far on desired feminist superpowers focus on having a greater ability to communicate with others. Gives me a warm fuzzy.

Although, as mentioned by BabyPop, having laser beams for my ta-ta's might be kind of fun too.

I'm looking forward to reading all your blogs.

I'll also throw my shameless self promotion hat in the ring - I write about politics, feminism, and other random topics at phonelesscord.net. A recent favorite feminist post (a response to Christopher Hitchen's article in Vanity Fair about how women are humorless) is here.

http://www.soda.can.com

My feminist superpower would be the power to make men pregnant, so they can stop basking in their oh-so-convenient ambivalence about the need for reproductive rights.

If I could have any superpower at all, I'd be telekinetic.

Oh, me, me, me! http://boltgirl.blogspot.com

My superpower would be a psychic kick in the nuts to every guy who says, "Wow, that takes balls" or "You should grow some balls" or "He's so awesome, he must have huge balls." You know, just to remind them what a frickin' liability those soft front-and-center targets are from a self-defense standpoint. I prefer my ovaries. They're much better protected.

I'm too new to the blogosphere to have anything worth self-promoting, even shamelessly ;).

But, feminist superpowers I would LOVE to have . . .

Andrea! Love the pregnancy idea. I was actually thinking the other day, how fascinating it would be if we just didn't have sex differentiation. If we could just forget about gendered selves and get on with our lives. Maybe my superpower would be the superpower to erase sex differentiation, and just let us all be human.

I also think the power of persuasion superpower, which a lot of people have touched on in various forms, is not only warm & fuzzy, but also, well, powerful! If we could erase people's internalized fears of change and equality, and instill in them joy and pleasure at a new way of life that is better for us all--even if it means giving up the safety and security of old habits--WOW.

I would love, as a superpower, to be able (somehow!) to ensure that our future will be a feminist future, a human-rights future, a more equal, more peaceful, more cosmopolitan future. Maybe it won't look exactly like we imagine it will . . . and I certainly don't want a matriarchal "utopia" . . . but I would love to be free of the fear that we're actually moving backwards. I think I could work a hell of a long time in the trenches, as long as I felt that slowly but surely we were getting there.

I'm doing a shameless plug here for the National Sexuality Resource Center and American Sexuality Magazine. We also maintain a blog at Voices of American Sexuality.

We publish provocative articles on sexuality and culture, react to news through the lens of Sexual Literacy (the ability to have a mentally healthy, medically safe, and pleasurable sexual life), and fight for full sexual citizenship and rights for all Americans. Come check us out!

I have a blog about the house I just bought with my friend Steve. We write about being young homeowners, being financial parnters (not romantic partners mind you), neighborhood/community issues in Buffalo, and lots of other stuff:

http://oldoldhouse.blogspot.com/

Also, a livejournal.

I've got a family blog on our time away from our "real lives". My mom reads it. Sometimes. You could too! We've farmed, hiked, camped,subjected ourselves to timeshare pitchs and replaced a transmission. Stories from the road, and more recently, Tucson at http://owlhouseblog.blogspot.com

Feminist because it's unavoidable.

My feminist super power would be to have women's real power be recognized. And I would like to fly. With wings.

Andrea and annajcook- we could all be like snails (although I think some men might like the idea a bit too much that they could have sex with themselves)

Anyways I have nothing to promote, although I'm almost done with a huge paper on this importance of Muslim women's voice when it comes to the debate about the veil (and why feminist philosophers would back that up).

My feminist superpower would be a big hammer I could knock some sense into people. Although non-feminist superpower would be to be able to fly.

Back in the day, when I actually read comic books, I was a fan of the New Universe line of comic books.

The one super power that came to mind as having feminism-related applications was that of the telepath Wayne Tucker. He can read minds, input images and thoughts into other people's minds, learn what other people know, and even compell them to do things.

I wonder if the "conventional" super powers (super strength, super speed, firing beams of electricity from your fingertips) might also be used for feminist ends. Imagine a group of badass superheroes, all using their super powers to kick the asses of patriarchal misogynists everywhere.

It's not what powers you have; it's what you do with them -- an adage that certainly applies beyond the pages of comic books.

I have a blog that has been ignored for a while as I've been running back and forth across time zones. It's generally a libertarian blog, although it's more a conglomeration of all my interests: feminism, gastronomy, strict constructionalism, law, science, etc. So it's hard to promote as a feminist blog.

My feminist superpower (sorry if it's redundant with some others): to make others understand that we did not ask to be born Woman. Nothing wrong with being female, but that we did not ask to be born the Other, who is "supposed to" want children, who is "supposed to" want to be a kindergarten teacher and not a high-powered lawyer, who is "supposed to" be not quite as smart and a good deal less rational than Man.

I would love for people to understand that I did not ask to be born Woman in a sexist society that does not support me, for I happen to be in a woman's body, but would support me if I were in a man's body.

I guess it's more of an equal-rights superpower, because it would apply to those who are of colour, gay, lesbian, or poor: to understand that accidents of birth do not undermine our own worth, and, as such, we cannot pass judgment on the members of a group.

If that makes sense...

My site is about women's magazines. It isn't strictly a feminist blog, but it is most definitely a not-buying-what-they're-selling blog. I write about both the serious (how mags talk about body image, beauty standards, and relationships) and the fluffy (the mystery of why Paris Hilton is on yet another cover).

http://glossedover.com

If I had a feminist superpower, I'd be Sheri Tepper.
Heh, heh...

Seriously, I'd chose being able to completely communicate exactly what I am feeling to anyone so that they absorbed it logically and processed it emotionally as though the experience were theirs.

i want to be able to inflict EMPATHY as my superpower.

If i couldn't do that i'd want to inflict a 60 second delay on folks that spout 'dittohead/fox/republican' talking points - or a delay as long as needed - until they actually were compelled to think about the implications of what they were going to say. For the sociopaths in that group it wouldn't much matter but for otherwise good hearted but easily led people, it might make a difference to their outlook.

Ooh, that Glossed Over blog looks great! I like my regular dose of fashion/style/beauty analysis, but add a bit of feminist pop culture analysis to it and I'm totally sold!

What a great bunch of posts. It's great to see everyone's links to their blogs and what they're about.

At I'm Sick of Your Insane Demands: Cary Tennis gets it wrong (again)

I have a blog whose title makes people confused - Feminists Don't Bake Bread. Not everyone sees the humour. *grin*

It's a group blog with the other three participants being scattered hither and yon.

I think a good taste of my writing would be My Deliberately Barren Self Is having Issues.

I haven't had much to say lately, having recently become incredibly ill, but I write about Women's History as well as topics of interest to Feminists, my friend writes about Queer issues, my partner writes about sorting out feminism from a male perspective, and my other friend writes about body issues.

(And I'm terribly excited about a couple of short series I'm working on about male and female activism, and the "a woman has to work twice as hard..." quote, and women in the bible (oh, women in the bible!!)). I crosspost a lot to my LJ, where most of my friends think I'm madder than a hatter, so the discussion over there is... frustrating, on occasion, but enlightening on other occasions, so...

Does Ranma's "curse" count as a superpower? Being able to do that at will instead of needing hot or cold water would be an interesting way to really mess with sexists' heads. :)

"My feminist superpower would be the power to make men pregnant, so they can stop basking in their oh-so-convenient ambivalence about the need for reproductive rights."

Read some of the Ranma 1/2 fanfic out there. ;)

No blog, but after mulling it over, my feminist super power would have to be the ability to enter a person's body to control what they say or do, almost like what the government is doing to women. For example John Roberts would vote for pro choice legislation. George Bush would denounce his anti choice views on national television. Rush Limbaugh would apologize for all of the horrible things that he has said. The list goes on...

And Pat Robertson would lie on his back, attempting to stick his foot in his mouth?

This is an excerpt from one of my favorite recent posts on one of my favorite recent scandals: Tobias:

PEPFAR: The art of practising safe prostitution.
It’s a gleeful morning here in Washington, kids, as all the international development-ites (even the former ones) wake up to Sunday morning talk shows filled with the news that Randall Tobias, director of foreign aid programs at the State Department (otherwise known as the head of USAID), just resigned due to the press finding out that he was listed on the D.C. Madam’s list.

Pop some khalua in the coffee, mix up some mimosas and griddle some pancakes, pals, because CNN has never been so fun.

For it seems that the same guy that developed the international policy against prostitution and for abstinence, couldn’t quite manage to abstain from prostitution.

Pretty much the only way for things to get more fun than this would be if we found out that Bush was a gay Iraqi.

Oh, the irony. And what we lack in fashion sense in this town, we make up for in our appreciation for the ironic.

More: http://scottybeammeup.blogspot.com/2007/04/pepfar-art-of-practising-safe.html

Ooo, I love all the new bookmarks I'm getting through these comments.

I'd love for you to check out http://www.respectrx.com

It's my girl culture blog focused on self-respect, sisterhood, social change. The blog is based on my best-selling book for teen girls RESPECT. But I also post items for women, parents, teachers and advocates. I try to stay on top of girl studies, trends and books (I'll be posting about Full Frontal Feminism and Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters next week!).

Also, subscribe to the RSS feed for Girls For A Change. I work with this org and it empowers thousands of teen girls to create social change all over the place based on their own ideas/projects!
http://www.girlsforachange.org/

thisisrape.blogspot.com

discussing representations in popculture (especially media) that perpetuate a Rape culture.

Nah, Pat Robertson would appear on national television and tell everyone that the September 11 attacks happened because his God was pissed over the right wing thinking that it speaks for him/her and for trying to control the bodies of women.

RE: BoltGirl on "Balls"

I use "balls" all the time, usually adding the clarification that, for me, "balls" refers to both testicles and ovaries. When somebody "disses" me for not having balls, or they imply that men=balls=poer, I say "We have balls, too! They're just on the inside!"

(Much smarter place for them to be. But for men, that'd cook the sperm, so unfortunately, the testes must hang.)

Thanks for all the blog sharing, good reads!

Also, I think that writings by feminists, regardless of subject, are "feminist" in nature. Hearing a diverse range of female voices publicly share thoughts, ideas and reflections on their lives/experiences is really empowering for me.

Not a blog, but a good website to take a look at.

http://www.heifer.org

They help women/families and their community become self sufficient by providing free agricultural and basic vetrinary education, plus giving animals to them. Although they help both men and women, their focus is on helping women with children become self-relient and they have programs in the majority of countries around the world.

I recently wrote about Mental Health and Asian American Women on my blog.
I attempt to describe the impact of being both biracial and an Asian American women as I navigate the mental health system.

When I visit a new mental health professional, I usually have to figure out a way to spill the beans. How do I let them know about my family and cultural background? I usually talk about my family's outright disdain for the mental health profession. But I hate the look in their eyes when they find out I'm Asian American. Because I can pass, the look doesn't happen as I walk in the door and sit down.
The body language and words of the typical white therapist have a look of either confusion or othering as I try to explain myself. Their eyes betray them and it hurts like hell.

I write for Cambridge Common at Harvard, which is a progressive blog that covers a bunch of feminist issues (with a bunch of feminist writers). Here are some links, if you want to check them out!

http://cambridgecommon.campustap.com/blog/entry/view.aspx?Iid=157758&redirectUrl=%252FHome.aspx%253FcomponentTypeId%253D3

http://cambridgecommon.campustap.com/blog/entry/view.aspx?Iid=158033&redirectUrl=%2fHome.aspx%3fstart%3d60%26componentTypeId%3d3

http://cambridgecommon.campustap.com/blog/entry/view.aspx?Iid=158182&redirectUrl=%2fHome.aspx%3fstart%3d50%26componentTypeId%3d3

Haha, this is very well-timed! My friend and I love Heroes and we've been coming up with not-so-super powers for ourselves.

My best friend said my superpower is "figuring out how something is a feminist issue".

And on the fun blog issue, www.allgirlarmy.org is totally fabulous. It was started by an amazing woman, Heather Corinna (who runs a great all-inclusive sex-ed site for teens, scarleteen.com) and is a collection of women bloggers discussing feminist issues in their lives. It's always an interesting and thoughtful read, I think.