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Question.

Jill

Who are your favorite feminist/social justice bloggers who don’t get the attention they should? What other blogs should Feministe readers be reading?

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  12. Macon D at Stuff White People Do hasn’t updated in a while, but the archives are worth perusing.

    The writers at Female Impersonator are super smart, and the blog is fun to read. (I might have been introduced to it through Feministe, actually.)

    Lesbian Dad is more a parenting blog than a social justice blog, but it’s a good read for insights on gender-nonconforming parents and kids, and on raising feminist kids. (See Mombian for a snarkier, more news-oriented take on lesbian parenting, also a good resource.)

  14. Also, I’m sure you all know about <a href="http://thefbomb.org/"The F Bomb (again, I probably heard of it through Feministe to begin with), but I find it inspiring that there are young feminists out there, talking about their lives and the issues.

  17. i can’t recommend http://thecanonball.wordpress.com/ enough.

    From their blog:
    “While Canonball’s focus is on the experiences of reading and writing as women, we also write posts on movies, music, television and anything else that has us scrawling out essays on napkins during our lunch breaks – all from an intersectional feminist lens.”

    these ladies rule.

  18. I’m currently doing a lot of reading in the asexual blogosphere, which is generally completely invisible in the wider SJ-sphere… which is frankly a damn shame, because we are having some amazing conversations about stuff like sexual compromise and workable models of consent for the asexual community, breaking down the romance/friendship dichotomy and what sort of long-term relationship models that offers, gender presentation when you’re asexual and other stuff I actually think sexual people could really benefit from as well. And cake. Lots of cake.

    In that vein, I suggest Writing from Factor X, Asexual Curiosities, Charlie the Unicorn, Ace Detective, Asexy Beast, and Love from the Asexual Underground (the last blog hasn’t been updated in a while but there is some absolutely amazing stuff in the archives) to give a few.

  19. http://enagoski.wordpress.com/

    She mainly blogs about sex, and it is mainly hetero-normative sex, but she admits that openly. I think she does this because she scientifically studies sex. That is what the blog is about, but I still think it has feminist roots, and I think she says some noteworthy things.

  20. I think Radgeek (http://radgeek.com/) who writes on both social justice and feminist issues (as well as philosophy) from a left libertarian/anarchist perspective is well worth everyone’s time.

  22. I vote for Production not Reproduction. The blogger is feminist and blogs about open adoption with a refreshingly progressive, highly ethical stance.

  30. I hadn’t read any feminist blogs in the past, so my experince with them begins and ends with the always excellent http://ethecofem.blogspot.com. Covering not only gender issues but also political, marketing and popular culture concerns, April’s blog provides opinion pieces and a variety of writers across the spectrum.

  31. The Feminist Philosophers group blog is exactly what the title suggests, though it is not merely a social-justice outlet for it concerns itself with issues related to academic philosophy as well. If anyone knows of more feminist philosophy (or just philosophers who are feminist re: other topics) blogs — group or single-author — I’d really appreciate it. 🙂

  32. Um, I’m going to go ahead and be self-promotional: At The Beheld, I blog about beauty and personal appearance through a feminist lens, exploring the relationship that women have with the choices we make every day in self-presentation. I think we’re all past the point of wondering whether feminists are “allowed” to wear lipstick, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve all come to a happy place about every choice we make. I interview a variety of women about their perspectives on beauty, plus analyze studies that purport to comment on attractiveness, beauty, etc.

    http://the-beheld.com

  34. full disclosure: this blog is written by a friend of mine, but it’s still worth reading. not strictly speaking a feminist blog, though i know the author is hyper-feminist and i’m pretty sure she actually reads feministe, but it’s a good primer on a sex-positive attitude and it’s really funny in any case. and i know she’ll appreciate the advertising so i might as well.

    Milkshake and Honey

  36. Feministe/Jill, *THANK YOU* for posting this. I’m bookmarking this page (while I eventually bookmark all the blogs suggested that I like) because it is a great resource. Additionally, it’s reminded me that there are so many blogs I know of and love that I probably don’t read enough (I definitely trust/rely on feministe as my go-to if I can only read one blog in a given day). So now not only do I have a bunch of new blogs to add, but I re-discovered some others. Yay!

    A few favorites:
    http://www.deeplyproblematic.com/ (love this name)
    http://www.leewind.org/
    http://www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/

  38. Oooh, I love this thread and so many of the blogs getting love here. I would add fugitivus.net, though she’s not updating much anymore. It’s a blog primarily about the author’s experience of abuse and rape, though through a very well-tuned feminist and anti-racist lens.

  39. I do think that Shakesville is worth mentioning. I certainly have learned a lot from it over the past 5 or 6 years.

    However I think Melissa is under a lot of stress and takes it out on people who are not her enemies, but social justice activists who simply disagree with her. I suggest lurking but if you dare comment on the board make sure to agree with Melissa or you’ll meet the ban-hammer even when the subject is on very controversial people like Mary Daly or in my case Hillary Clinton.

    Disagreement with Melissa on her blog is anti-feminist now, and while she seems to tolerate trolls to a degree, she won’t tolerate social justice activists who think she may have made a mistake.

    I like http://gaildines.com/ but her blog hasn’t updated in a long time.

    I like http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/

    I miss http://disabledfeminists.com/ but there is still a lot of good stuff in the archives.

    And Robert Jensen has a site with his articles that are worth reading. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/articles_gender.html

  42. I enjoy FeministFrequency.com. Great blog (mostly video) dealing with the issues of feminism, social media, and includes some good analysis of sexism present in ads, tv, movies, and online communities. She also has great videos about positive role models in tv and movies. It might be more popular than I think, though.

  43. I don’t think any of these is obscure enough to qualify me as a hipster activist (I kid, I kid!), but I like them and I’m sure some other people will too, but just don’t know it yet.

    Mercedes Allan @ Dented Blue Mercedes

    DBM is collection of theory, politics and advocacy for trans, LGBT, sex and gender minorities, and their place in a decolonial world. From Alberta-based writer Mercedes Allen and guests.

    Michelle @ The Fat Nutritionist

    Why “fat”?

    Because, to be perfectly frank, I’m fat. And I’m telling you this up front because I don’t want you getting the wrong idea about me.

    See, I’m not here to give you a stern talking-to about your weight, or your eating habits, or your lack of exercise. And I’m certainly not here to pretend that I’m perfect, that I know it all, and that you’d better do what I say or else.

    Nope. Not even remotely.

    But I can help you get to a friendly place with food and your body.

    So, I call myself fat because not only am I fat — at five feet, five-and-a-half inches and two-hundred-sixty-some-odd pounds — I’m also not especially bothered by it. Because the size of my body, and your body, is morally neutral. Fat doesn’t equal lazy or ugly or even, necessarily, unhealthy.

    Ladysquires @ Shitty First Drafts

    A blog about culture, writing, and pedagogy

    (All quotes are from the blog’s self-descriptions – I thought I’d let them speak for themselves!)

  50. I can’t believe I didn’t mention Hugo Schwyzer. A sometimes long-winded, sometimes thematically limited, but always smart male feminist. I wish all male feminists men displayed such humility and forthright feminist sensibilities.

  52. I’d like to put a shoutout (and a tip of my Irish curls) to Shark-Fu at Angry Black Bitch on the other side of Missouri from me, as well as Racialicious where a lot of good substantive work on the intersection of gender and race takes place. Those of us who are melanin deficient often need the reminders these sites give us.

    (and in an act of shameless self promotion), I have started a new blog, Am I the Only One Dancing that takes on the “home” sphere with a feminist bent, and resurrected my old blog, Walking Upstream to talk about politics and social policy from a feminist, poverty activist perspective.

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  56. Thanks for this post! There are so many great blogs to read on here. Most of the blogs I read have already been posted, but I have to mention Native Appropriations.
    Also, I assume this hasn’t been posted because most people already know about it but Muslimah Media Watch is a fantastic read.

  57. Hopefully it’s okay that I recommend my own blog. The Border House is a collaborative feminist video gaming blog with over 20 contributors. We talk about intersectionality in video games, including issues involving disability, sexism in games, LGBT representations in games, and sex in games. 🙂

  58. Wow–great suggestions from everyone! I love so many of the ones suggested here, especially The F Word, Shakesville, Feminist Frequency, and Womanist Musings. The other one I suggest is Gender Focus, which is run by a friend of mine (full disclosure) and has great content from a bunch of Canadian feminists.

  63. Many thanks for all the awesome links to so many cool looking blogs!

    I thought I’d recommend a blog that’s less specifically feminist, but one of the few that I always take careful time to read and also where I never fear to read the comments. (I’m largely comment-phobic everywhere else).

    You may be interested to read Havi’s blog over at The Fluent Self

    From the site:

    Stuff we talk about around here:
    Destuckification: working through the stucknesses that get in the way of doing your thing.

    Mindful biggification: the art and science of getting your thing into the hands of your Right People without feeling icky or weird. My duck doesn’t like the word “coaching” and I’m not such a big fan of the M-word. So we’re mindful biggifiers – with fairy dust.
    I also write about my conversations with walls and monsters, and what it’s like to work on a pirate ship. Good times.”

    I find the tools useful to approach my study, my activism, and how I’m being in the world in general both for myself and for others.

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