Hi, Feministe-ers.
I’m Sarah Jaffe, and I’ll be one of your guestbloggers for the next couple of weeks! I have a blog that is rarely updated these days–more often I do my writing elsewhere.
I’m a journalist by trade, but I do dearly love blogging and so when the Feministe crew offered me a guestblogger slot, I figured it was a good time to make myself actually jump back into this mindframe again. By day, I run the website for GRITtv with Laura Flanders, which is, if you’re not familiar, a progressive/feminist television program on satellite, cable, and public stations as well as on the web. I’m ridiculously lucky to have a job in media at this time, and I spend a lot of time thinking about the changing journalistic/media landscape, as well as my role in it. I may wind up blogging about this more.
Other things I do: I am deputy editor at GlobalComment.com, I have written for Bitch and Bust, The American Prospect and the Nation. I love pop culture as much as I love politics, and politics are pretty depressing these days, so I’m looking forward to doing some more feminist cultural criticism, which is the pretentious name I give to posts where I argue for the feminist significance of Robyn or David Bowie (both are coming).
I’m a white, Jewish, heterosexual, overeducated, employed, tattooed, loudmouthed cis woman living in Brooklyn. I am a whole bunch of media cliches, but I try to break through a few of them. I have a pretty liberal comment policy–not much you say is gonna offend me. Oh, and I’m a gigantic comic book nerd and an unapologetic Wearer Of Red Lipstick.
I am ridiculously busy, so I can’t promise to be the world’s most prolific guestblogger, but I will try to make it fun.
Nice to meetcha.