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What a week
The week started in Philadelphia on Saturday. I went to the launch of Impeach For Change at, of all places, Constitution Hall. I was there to discuss with other bloggers the importance of keeping the matter of George Bush's impeachment on the table. Not for political vendetta but as a matter of constitutional crisis.
Then on Tuesday on to Barnard College, where with 5 other feminist bloggers we discussed the state of the feminist blogosphere and what opportunities and obstacles lie ahead.
Hours later I hopped on a train to go down to Washington DC. I was slated to give a workshop on blogging with Chris Rabb of Afro-netizen, Bill Densmore of Media Giraffe and Faiz Shakir of Think Progress. I swear, an hour and a half is just not enough for tackling all the questions of concerned of people who want to use new media tools like blogs but just don't know how.
Let's say I am DYING to follow up on all these conference. Give me until tomorrow. I'm running out to pick up my kids at school. Also, the week is not over yet. I still have Rootscamp to attend.
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Blogging and Feminism : (Web)sites of resistance
Feminist Futures
Blogging Feminism:
(Web)Sites of Resistance
A panel discussion
Tuesday, 14 November, 7:00 PM
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required.
Cyberspace . . . will have important effects in encouraging women to participate in designing and implementing models of economic development, constructing stable democracies, ensuring that different cultures can exist side by side without violent conflict and providing the sense of trust, partnership and solidarity that are necessary to any society in which people cooperate for mutual well-being.
- Lourdes Arizpe
Of the internet's viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their lives, their issues, their analyses of the world can come into sharp focus. Outside the confines of mainstream media, where women are addressed (usually exclusively) as consumers, feminist bloggers have become the cultural producers blazing some of the most radical and rousing paths toward revolutionary social change.
This spring, The Scholar & Feminist Online, will publish issue 5.3 - "Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance." On Tuesday, 14 November, guest editors Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti come together with select contributors to discuss how feminists are fulfilling the promise of creating a cybercommunity dedicated to securing a more just and peaceful world. Panelists include Lauren Spees and Michelle Riblett, BC '05 (Hollaback), Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen), and Alice Marwick (Tiara).
Barnard University's Center for Research on Women
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