Break out the balloons and the streamers — we've reached a total collection of 500 women bloggers. (Yes, there are millions out there, this just seeks to highlight a nice range of them and give them a bit of publicity.)
Why "femmes fatales?" Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest and variety.
First off, unusually, I'm going to start with a whole blog, rather than a particular post, since it would be unfair to single any one out: Reading Middlemarch is a group blog of women (at least I think they are all women) reading George Eliot's masterpiece, and reflecting on it as they go. A great idea — and it would be fascinating if someone wanted to do something similar with a feminist classic — say The Female Eunuch? (Just a thought...I'm already committed to a variety of projects for about 23 hours a day.)
Turning back to the politics — well I have too, even if with a heavy heart — but let's start with a positive story: on Avast! Feminist Conspiracy! (which proves from its title that irony is alive and well in America - whew!) an account of the campaign of Tammy Duckworth, "a disabled combat veteran and a woman of color, running on the kind of democratic platform that many of us joined the party for".
Also on a note of celebration, Mikaila on The Pan Collective (a women's blog "on Caribbean life" makes her first blog post, celebrating Jamaica's first female Prime Minister — the Honorable Portia Simpson Miller.
Now I think Hecate, on her blog, should stop pulling her punches, say what she really thinks, as in the case of the Wiccan high priests versus a Great Falls, South Carolina town council. "The basic premise is that if xians aren't allowed to shove their religion down everyone else's throat, then the xians are being persecuted," she says.
Article comments
1 - Lisa Call
Thanks for the mention.
I prefer "artist that quilts" although "artistic quilter" isn't bad either.
2 - Sage
I'm a new feminist blogger with very few hits. I don't know if I *deserve* a wider audience, but I'd sure like one! So far I've been writing about marriage, abortion, a native sweatlodge ritual, feminism, etc. The favourites seem to be "Men in Skirts" and "Inside Every Polite Woman is a Valerie Solanis Screaming to Get Out." See what you think.