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Number of member blogs so far => 18

1.Academic Parenthood

http://academicparenthood.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Jaime Lester

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
This blog is a compilation of shared experiences and information for academic parents who are on or aspire to be on the tenure track. Our goal is to provide information, spark debate, create awareness, and maybe even promote activism to help all women and men feel as if they can be successful academic parents.


2.Across the Pond: a feminist blog

http://femsacrossthepond.wordpress.com/

Blogger: Kimberly Springer

Other regular contributors:
Jane Elliott (University of York), Heather Gilligan

Main Theme or Focus:
Across the Pond is the work of four thirty-something feminists, including three university faculty members and one writer. We blog about culture, gender, sex and women’s lives from a feminist perspective. Two of us live in the U.S. and two live in the U.K.


3.BrokenBeautiful Press

http://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com

Blogger: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
BrokenBeautiful Press is based on the basic assumption that love, knowledge and inspiration are renewable resources for revolution that we produce together everyday. Use this site to make love as community, creativity, interaction, knowledge and growth. We are dedicated to the visibility of love as something that we are always making (and therefore which is neither scarce nor for sale). We invite you to acknowledge the ways that you are making love happen all of the time. Please check back often for tools to use in your community and email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com to submit resources that you have developed and would like to share with the world.


4.en|gender

http://www.myhusbandbetty.com

Blogger: gail kramer

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
helen boyd's journal of gender and trans issues


5.Fabulously Feminist

http://fabulouslyfeminist.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Shantel Troska

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Fabulously Feminist is an activist academic blog ran by a current Women's and Gender Studies graduate student. With articles, newswire, even poetry, this should be an essential stop for anyone fighting for women's rights today!


6.Girl with Pen

http://girlwpen.com

Blogger: Deborah Siegel

Other regular contributors:
Kristen Loveland, Virginia Rutter, Courtney Martin, Gwendolyn Beetham, Tonni Brodber, Veronica Arreola, Elizabeth Curtis, Jacqueline Hudak, Laura Mazer, and others

Main Theme or Focus:
Girl with Pen ("bridging feminist research and popular reality") publicly and passionately dispels modern myths concerning gender, encouraging other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers to do the same.


7.Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

http://www.guerrillagirlsontour.blogspot.com

Blogger: Aphra Behn

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Guerrilla Girls On Tour's blog written while touring the world proving femininsts are funny.


8.Huntington Library Women's Studies Program

http://huntingtonwomensstudies.blogspot.com

Blogger: Karon Jolna

Other regular contributors:
Blogmaster: Penny Richards, Ph.D., Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Main Theme or Focus:
The Huntington Library Women's Studies Program has been presenting thought provoking Women's Studies seminars to the Southern California community for twenty five years. Join us on our new blog for more information and discussion about our quarterly seminars at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.


9.livelyblog

http://www.livelyfoundation.org/livelyblog

Blogger: Leslie Friedman

Other regular contributors:
artists, audience, students, teachers, writers

Main Theme or Focus:
livelyblog has news of the activities of the not for profit Lively Foundation. Areas that are of special interest to NWSA include programs of dance, music, narration about women; Peace Dances; educational programs available to women's centers, universities/colleges, clubs, elementary schools, high schools, and more. Lively publishes the international arts review The Hedgehog with important features and interviews with women of many cultures. Past cover stories included Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan and Maria Benitez.


10.Professor Splenda Galore

http://drparker.blogspot.com

Blogger: Juli L. Parker

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Articles written for local newspaper and other venues on topics relevant to women.


11.Regional Food Round Up

http://regionalfoodroundup.blogspot.com

Blogger: Marcia Chatelain

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
I bring together my passions for food, politics and history in one place. I focus on a regional dish as a way of exploring the past and engaging the present.


12.Sciencewomen

http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewomen

Blogger: Alice Pawley

Other regular contributors:
Co-blogger the pseudonymous ScienceWoman

Main Theme or Focus:
We write about lots of things related to gender and science: being women academics in the sciences or engineering, science associated with gender, how life intersects with work, navigating the academic pathway as women who don't want to conform to existing disciplining, and so on. Come read!


13.SUBJECT(S THAT) MATTER

http://feministpollyanna.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Rachel Leigh Smith

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Blog by a women's and gender studies graduate student that focuses on gender(ed) issues in culture and W&GS activities in her life. Focused around her program at the University of Memphis.


14.UMKC Women's Center

http://umkc-womenc.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Brenda Bethman

Other regular contributors:
Kristen Abell, UMKC Women's Center Staff

Main Theme or Focus:
Blog sponsored by the UMKC Women's Center. We post on thought-provoking articles to foster discussion on women's issues. We also accept guest posts, so contact me at bethmanb@umkc.edu if you would be interested in writing a guest post for our blog.


15.various blogs

http://www.redroom.com/authors/maria-espinosa

Blogger: Maria Paula Espinosa

Other regular contributors:
redroom authors

Main Theme or Focus:
personal reflections on a wide range of topics.
the website also contains reviews of my books as well as reviews I have written on other writers' work.


16.Women's Page History

http://womenspageeditors.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Kimberly Voss

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
A blog devoted to women's page editors beginning during World War II (when many women were hired by the newsrooms until the war ended) through the early 1970s when the sections were transformed into lifestyle sections.


17.Yan Bin Chronicles

http://yanbinchronicles.blogspot.com

Blogger: Vivien Ng

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
This blog is my muse AND superego. Chronicles my creative projects and other musings.


18.Zwischen Banalität und gesellschaftlicher Empörung

http://www.moenkedieck.com-a.googlepages.com/banalit%C3%A4tundemp%C3%B6rung

Blogger: Sonja Inga Mönkedieck

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Bei meinem Blog handelt es sich um einen Mailverkehr zwischen meinem alten Lehrer und mir in deutscher Sprache. Anhand von politischen, persönlichen, kulturellen, künstlerischen und sozialen Thematiken versuchen wir die Spannung zwischen Banalität und gesellschaftlicher Empörung zu beschreiben.


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