Our fourth Twittercast will be held this Sunday night at 10 pm EST, our usual time. Please review this previous post about the mechanics of Twittercast-ing, if you are not already familiar with the method, and remember: add the hashtag #fem2 at the end of your Tweets to be included in the discussion. (If you [...]

We’re very excited to tell everyone that our friends at Linkfluence will be presenting at Fem2.0 new research about how feminist blogs/women’s issues fit in the US political Web. Some preliminary conclusions are:    1)   The feminist blogosphere is a dense, well-structured, and tight-knit network.  2)   The feminist blogosphere is tightly enmeshed in the progressive [...]

Re-posted with permission from Choice USA. A blog from Choice USA’s Executive Director, Kierra Johnson. As I stood on the Mall in what seemed like 40 below weather waiting for my glimpse of our new President, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the young voters surrounding me who made this all possible and will [...]

Cross-posted from e.politics. Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogoshere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers in the general progressive political space who come to mind right away are Jane Hamsher and Digby [...]

It was a clear moment for me. In 1993, I attended my first California Democratic Party State Convention. I had just turned 20 and was activein both Democratic politics and student government as an organizer, albeit very behind-the-scenes. The world was full of possibility. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein had just made history as the [...]

On January 11th, executive coach Peggy Klaus wrote an article for the New York Times called “A Sisterhood of Workplace Infighting.”  In it, she examined how women treat one another at work, and stressed the importance of “learning to value one another so we can all get ahead.”  She referred to this issue as the [...]

Last Sunday  we had a rather provocative #fem2 discussion over privilege, patriarchy, raising boys, identity politics and feminism over Twitter. You can find the discussion through Twitter Search. I helped facilitate the discussion by opening it with this vignette about kids (it actually happened a couple of weeks ago): i have two boys and the [...]

My excitement about going to Fem 2.0 is multilayered.  One of the benefits of being the Vice President at The Women’s Media Center is the opportunity to meet and learn from so many great women.  Some of my favorite bloggers and media mavens will be there: Veronica Arreola, Joanne Bamberger, Avis Jones-DeWeever and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner [...]

This has been re-posted with permission from the Spring 2007 issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online. Deborah Siegel is creator of the group blog Girl w/Pen and the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. If you have signed on to this issue of the Barnard Center for Research on [...]

I have been a long time political activist and feminist. Yes, I said feminist, and proud of it. I know that for some people that is not a good word but here is what it means to me very simply: anyone (male or female) who believes in the equality of men and women. Last month [...]