Small Strokes Big Oaks

There is so much great feminist stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in… Read more ›

In class the other night, I was talking to a few of my other women classmates and they were asking me a bit about my papers (good wife and literacy) for both classes, since both of them have to do… Read more ›

Dear Men at the Gym, I know how to work out.  Yes, my appearance might belie this fact: I’m small, have a bit of a baby face, I only look about 18-years-old at most (which I am reminded of every… Read more ›

While writing my paper about Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community, it occurred to me that I wasn’t sure what to do with the names of the wonderful women who provided answers to my interview questions.  In most of the… Read more ›

Bio My name is Mary Lee Shalvoy and I am 49. I was born in New Jersey on July 1, 1960. I grew up in northern NJ, 10 miles due west of New York City and lived there, pretty much… Read more ›

  Bio Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. When she first began selling to The New Yorker, she was the youngest and one of only three cartoonists who were women. In 2005, she wrote  Funny Ladies: The New… Read more ›

        Bio I’m Rebecca Welzenbach, 24, currently of Ann Arbor Michigan.  I graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a degree in English Literature in 2007 and just completed my Master’s of Science in Information with a focus on Archives and… Read more ›

This is a section from my Diversity paper (intro here) about what it means to be a “good woman” or a “good wife” and why a few women seemed to feel the need to coach me toward their idea of… Read more ›

Bio Name: Amanda ReCupido Age: 23 Location: New York Occupation: Public & Media Relations, secret blogger, Twitter-er extraordinaire Education: BA in Writing from Illinois Wesleyan University, Graduate Certificate in Publishing from NYU Blog: http://www.undomesticgoddess.com 1. Define the online feminist blogging… Read more ›

This is a section from my Diversity paper (intro here) about what it means to be a “good woman” or a “good wife” and why a few women seemed to feel the need to coach me toward their idea of… Read more ›

Bio Name: Sharna Fulton Age: 48 Location: Loganville, GA; (originally from Denver, CO but a Bostonian at heart) Occupation: PR & Marketing, Cartoonist Education: BA English Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder 1983 Blogs: www.chloepinkcartoon.blogspot.com (main blog!); www.peaceofthepie.com 1. Define the online feminist blogging community.… Read more ›

Bio Hi! I’m Esmeralda Tijhoff, a 28 year old woman from an average city, Groningen, in the Netherlands. I’ve studied history at the university of Groningen and specialized in women’s history and genderstudies at the University of Utrecht. Since my… Read more ›

What follows is the revised proposal for my interview about the literacy practices of the feminist blogging community.  Comments are, as always, welcome. Topic and Background I am fascinated by technological literacy and how social media, blogging in particular, is… Read more ›

Borders are difficult things to manage; they are not real in the sense that this computer or this desk is real – they are not tangible.  When two groups meet, however, an inevitable border is formed, and when cultures clash,… Read more ›

The eminent scholar “took the bull by the horns,” substituting urban black speech for the voice of an illiterate cop in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae. And we sat there. Dana’s purple eyes deepened, Becky twitched to her hairtips and Janice in her… Read more ›

This post is intended to be part of the Fem2.0 blog carnival about caregiving. For more information, or to participate yourself, click here. Women are, by nature, multi-faceted. This isn’t to say that men aren’t, but that society dictates that… Read more ›

I have just finished reading White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Maurice Berger for my class on the literature of diversity.  It is a decent read, especially for anyone interested in the problems surrounding race in our… Read more ›