Cuz I am going to be there! And I am going to be on an amazing panel of bloggers including Jill from Feministe, Amanda from Pandagon, Lindsay from Majikthise and Pam from Pandagon and Pam's House Blend.

Our panel is about feminist blogging. Shocking, I know :)

Women Bloggers Found: Has Feminist Blogging Gone Mainstream? Saturday, August 15th 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Panel, 317 Time: Saturday, August 15th, 3:00pm - 4:15pm Room: 317

A few years ago, male bloggers 'round the liberal bloglandia were wondering out loud, "Where are the women bloggers?" Many of the women in the feminist and progressive blogospheres responded with frustration--we were there, and had been, the whole time. Today, the blogosphere looks awfully different, as feminist bloggers are increasingly mainstreamed and able to exert stronger influence on online discourse. But "blogging while feminist" isn't always easy, and feminist bloggers have faced harassment and threats that are uniquely gendered and sexualized. Feminists who have been most successful at running bigger blogs have also been mostly young, white, heterosexual and middle-class--so their issues have been presented to the mainstream progressive movement as the whole of feminism. This panel will look at what has changed, what hasn't and who remains on the edges of progressive blogging. It will also examine how female bloggers--and feminist bloggers in particular--are treated in mainstream spaces, and what we can do about it.

I am excited. I am sure I will learn a lot, but will also have a lot to say so expect live-blogging!

2 Comments

July 21, 2009 8:51 PM

[0+]  jupiter said:

Any older feminist bloggers?

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July 22, 2009 11:32 PM

[0+]  gudbuytjane said:

Or trans women feminist bloggers? Or women of colour feminist bloggers who don't ban trans women for using the term cis*?

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