A Feministe reader asks how she can blog about her personal life without “selling out” her friends and family. As long as I’ve been doing this thing, and as many fights I’ve had about it with friends and family, here’s the gist:
1) Don’t record anything too personal for posterity’s sake. I won’t write about [...]
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On Writing, Atrocity and Privilege — Random, Redux
Published April 12th, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Environment, Feminism and Things We Can Do. 19 CommentsPart of my endless frustration with blogging, especially when I was at a more widely read blog like Feministe, is something that I still run into at my newer, smaller blog:
I Had a Bad Day Today: 15 comments in one day
200,000 Women Have Had A Really Fucking Bad Decade: 2 comments in two [...]
I came home tonight ready to blog about how thrilling it is that the Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning in Indiana for the first time in my memory, and how much this will galvanize Hoosier liberals, but my wrist is really fucking bothering me. I think the real problem was rediscovering how much I [...]
I’ve been going through all my author archives at Feministe remembering how much time I was able to devote to blogging, thinking, and writing when I was in college. Time is such an important commodity. So much good stuff there that I’m proud of in retrospect.
[By the way, a great article [...]
Mothertude, The Word on Blogging Appropriately
Published February 14th, 2008 in Blogging, Feminism and Law. 3 CommentsHear, hear:
Longtime readers know that I blogged about my life while I was married, and my online writings were used in an unsuccessful bid for stripping me of my rights to see my older child. I was called a “pornographer” and was accused of exposing my children to sexual predators through my blog. I was [...]
May the Lord Bless Ad Filtering Software
Published February 12th, 2008 in Advertising, Blogging, Feminism and Racism. 3 CommentsPart of my lingering responsibilities for Feministe is putting together their new ad content. This has been a personal challenge — because if you surf the internet like I do the only time you click on an ad is on accident. It is a necessary evil, seeing that the hosting service was becoming [...]
Bad blogger.
I’m still reading blogs — and bookmarking, obviously — but it feels like a time to step back and un-invest myself in some of the blogosphere in order to reevaluate some of my previous actions and opinions. Mostly I feel like my voice is unnecessary in many of the debates that are raging [...]
Little in the way of writing in the next couple of weeks. I’m attempting to finish a web-based project for another feminist blogger within our planned deadline.
Plus I’ve been slacking. Damn you, internets.
The Price of Writing for the Public
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