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March 17, 2005
(Some) Women I Read
At this week's SXSW conference, I mentioned to danah that I don't read blogs as often as I used to. She asked me which ones I still read regularly, and I rattled some names off.
"That's almost all women," she said.
Huh.
I honestly hadn't realized it until she pointed it out. But yes, most of the names on my "must read as soon as they post" list are women. Many of them are my co-authors here on M2M misbehaving, so I don't feel a need to list them again. But, in the spirit of Halley's call to make interesting women more visible, here are some others that are on my regular reading list:
Elouise Oyzon
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Dervala Hanley
GetUpGrrl (the pseudonymous author of Chez Miscarriage)
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Allison Kaplan Sommer
Ayelet Waldman (whom I now read through Salon, since she's discontinued her blog)
I'm not listing the recommended ten names because I don't want to list for the sake of listing. These are people whose voices matter to me. Many of them people I know in the real world, but not all. But all of them people who've drawn me into their lives with their stories. I don't read blogs for news and links. I read them for stories (which might include news and links, which is fine), and these women all are generous and skilled in sharing their stories.
Posted by Liz Lawley at 10:43 AM in People | Permalink
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It's harder to work out when you read Planets. (LinuxChix Live has nearly forty women). Leaving out aggregating sites and people I know IRL (if I know someone IRL, I'll read their blog), the women on my own will-read-every-post list are:
Dorothea Salo
Getupgrrl
Belle Waring (on Crooked Timber and John and Belle Have a Blog)
Rachel Chalmers
Shauny Marsh
Laura
Rivka
My favourite LiveJournals are all written by women, but unfortunately they all friends-lock, so I won't list them with the above.
I think there's roughly an equal number of men on my will-read-everything list. The complete list of people I aggregate is fairly male dominated, but everyone I've added in the last six months has been female, bar one. I think this has been mostly due to reading less of the academic linguistics blogs.
Posted by: Mary at Mar 17, 2005 5:08:38 PM
And I'll bet each person you link to know what SXSW and M2M are. Is it a secret club or am I just 'out there'? Reading this post makes me feel so out of touch. I'm assuming that if we are reading here we should know what SXSW and M2M mean? I give up. Catch you all on the flip side. Off to read CBO, just to add to the confusion. There's a lot I don't understand these days.
Posted by: meg at Mar 17, 2005 9:44:04 PM
Actually, none of the people on that list were at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW), a conference that Caterina mentioned in an earlier post. None of them are heavily tech-oriented, really, with perhaps the exception of my friend and colleague Elouise Oyzon (who's a a digital artist and teaches in my department) and Dervala Hanley (who's worked for some tech companies).
The M2M part was just a mistake; I write for two group blogs, this one and Many-to-Many (M2M), and in a somewhat sleep-deprived state I mixed the two up in my writing. I've fixed that now, and added a link to SXSW to help clarify. (I've also corrected the link to Teresa's blog, which was wrong before.)
Sorry if I gave the impression there was some kind of secret society. I was simply trying to point to women whose writing I love, but who aren't part of any inner circle of technology or blogging.
Posted by: Liz at Mar 17, 2005 9:55:24 PM
Lovely list, half of which I already recognize and the other half I think I'm about to become familiar with. My reason for posting after long lurking: not to be nit-picky, but you've swapped links for TNH and Sommer up there in the version I see in front of me. Could just be my own browser, it gets wonky on even numbered days.
Posted by: sundre at Mar 18, 2005 7:51:11 PM
Thanks for adding the link to SXSW. That explains it very well and it was an interesting place to visit.
Posted by: meg at Mar 18, 2005 10:59:30 PM
sundre, you're right--I've swapped the links back. thanks!
and meg, glad the linked helped. it's really a wonderful conference. but it's far from the only place where one can find wonderful women.
Posted by: Liz at Mar 19, 2005 8:29:14 AM
Nice resource by a student. but many well-behaved women make history.
Posted by: Shirazi at Mar 22, 2005 2:12:52 AM
