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Feministe Live-Blog: A Preview

As I mentioned in my previous post, Feministe will be live-blogging all night tonight as the polls close and the results come in. The whole shebang will start at 6, but to get you excited, here are our live-bloggers (info and bios will be updated as I get them):

Little Light

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!

Plus the Feministe crew. Yeah, it’s gonna be awesome. See you in a few…


4 thoughts on Feministe Live-Blog: A Preview

  1. Hi Jill,

    Thank you for the liveblogging! I’m really looking forward to it and the diverse contributors πŸ™‚

    Just one question, from those of us outside the US, what time are you guys on? To be precise, 6pm where? It says to me that this was posted at 6.15pm, but over here it’s 10.15pm (I’m in Ireland).

    I assume it’s 5.15pm where you are right now?

    Thanks!

    Ariel

  2. Ariel — you’ve got it right. WordPress really needs to work on creating a smooth daylight savings transition, but since they haven’t yet the posting time is an hour off. It’s currently 5:24 here, so we’ll be starting in a little over half an hour.

  3. Awesome, Cara. Here in Ireland people are following this more than they did our own election last year!

    There’s a town in County Offally where they’ve found out that Obama has Irish ancestry! Half the town is in the pub following the elections live. The Obama campaign has apparently invited representatives from the town to go to the U.S. and they’re hoping Obama visits the village whenever he gets around to an official visit to Ireland.

    But! This is nothing new of course. The same stuff was on the news when a small village in County Meath, I believe, found that’s where John Kerry’s ancestors came from. Not surprising as the man was called Kerry after all πŸ™‚

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