Welcome Feministe readers! Here’s your election night live-blog. We’ll be moderating out the comments as often as possible, but since we all have various plans, some may be stuck for a while. But please feel free to participate, and we’ll clear you for posting as soon as we can. In addition to your Feministe regulars, our other Live Bloggers are:
Little Light: Little Light is a twenty-five-year-old able-bodied mixed-class trans dyke of color from the U.S. Pacific Northwest. A writer, preacher, media activist, street medic, and religion scholar, she has been holding her breath for a solid month waiting for tonight. Any allegations that she totally cried during the Obama infomercial are, of course, entirely false, and besides, you can’t prove anything.
DeviousDiva
Natalia: Natalia Antonova is editor of GlobalComment.com. She was born in the USSR, lived most of her life in North Carolina (c’mon and raise up), and is presently working in the Middle East.
Mikey: Mikey is a heartbroken young lawyer in Brooklyn. When people ask, he says he’s a community organizer. He just bought three huge cupcakes from Crumbs. He will eat them all right now. He misses David Foster Wallace and palls around with feminists. He was Lil’ Wayne Palin for Halloween.
Renee
Terrance
Daisy: Daisy is a 51-year-old feminist, grandmother, old-hippie herbalist and tarot-reader, redneck southerner, and lifelong political junkie. Her first presidential campaign involved leafleting door-to-door for George McGovern at age 15, in which she first learned what it was to have unpopular opinions! (That war threatened to go on forever, too.)
Katie: Katie Loncke, 22, spends her time healing from a recent four-year stint at Harvard, where she double majored in social theory and feminist studies, and co-authored a progressive/radical student blog called Cambridge Common. She works at a book store, cooks for her friends, writes letters by hand, and participates at a queer-and-POC-friendly meditation center near her apartment. Like Obama, she’s got the black-dad-white-mom thing going on. Unlike Obama, she has never danced on national television. Katie is a long-time fan of Feministe.
Allison: Allison Martell is a student and journalist in Toronto, Canada. Last summer she guest blogged about economics and feminism for Feministe, and her own site is at www.economicwoman.com.
evil fizz: evil fizz is attorney who works for the US government. She would tell you more about her work, but it is the government after all. She lives outside of Seattle.
Anna: Anna is a public high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York and the co-creator of Macha Mexico: A Lesbian Guide to Mexico City, an English-language blog about queer life for women in Mexico City. Even though she has some major reservations about the institution of marriage, as a dyke and a native Californian she is closely following Proposition 8 in addition to the presidential election.
Jessica: Jessica Stites is an assistant editor at Ms. magazine. When she’s not rabidly following election results, she likes sci-fi and word games. Geek the vote!
Thomas: Thomas MacAulay Millar is a cisgendered het white male, a New York – area litigator, a feminist, a progressive, a spouse, a parent and a Scottish-American, not necessarily in that order. He has commented and occasionally guest-posted at Feministe since 2004 as “Thomas” or “Thomas, TSID.”
Katrina: Katrina Lynne Baker is a Living Liberally National Director and National Organizer. Living Liberally is dedicated to creating communities around progressive politics. Through social networks and events, Living Liberally promotes political engagement, and facilitates collaboration among progressive organizations. The organization believes that our political identity should be part of our regular lives and creates easy entryways into progressive political involvement, where you can find a community that shares your values. Living Liberally has approximately 300 chapters, with at least one in every state, and chapters in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Its programs include Drinking Liberally, Eating Liberally, Reading Liberally, Laughing Liberally, and Screening Liberally. Katrina works in the area of employment law and previously founded and hosted Ithaca’s first weekly three-hour feminist radio show, Eve Outloud.
Enjoy! And go Obama!