For a project which I may or may not decide to work on: What are your favorite Feministe posts? What are the classics? Which ones do you remember? Let us know in the comments. Also: Are you a Feministe guest blogger? If you are, and you haven’t gotten an email from me this week, drop me a line.
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This one. It is one of the best blog posts anywhere.
(It was also duplicated as a “Greatest Hits” post here, so I hope it’s not DQ’d from project Jill is considering.)
*sigh*
Okay, just testing a basic comment with no links or html or anything to see if this one doesn’t disappear into the ether.
Okay, I’m assuming there’s something about my original comment which is fundamentally being rejected by the commenting system here, but I was going to link to Little Light’s amazing “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”, from her 2009 summer guest-blogging stint (can be Googled). There are many more, I know, but that one has been on my mind a lot lately.
Yes! I vote for this one!
Ohhhh. Duh. Feministe with an e. I thought it said feminist…. Sorry.
For better or for worse, I’ve often learned the most from the posts that inspired controversy, even contention and real anger. Posts that lead to conversation; it’s in the back-and-forth between many people that I get a sense for the broadness of interests and perspectives that feminism tries (and sometimes fails) to encompass.
An example: I Guess It’s a Jungle in Here Too, Huh?
link is broken.
I enjoy the “worst letter” (or worst commenter) awards voting. That brings out the humor in posters, as well as the sense of community spirit. Even typical lurkers (like me) who feel they don’t have the knowledge or experience to post on most subjects can contribute and feel a part of the group.
[...] saw the idea for this post at Feministe and I really like [...]
“The Oppressor Within” by Bint Alshasma changed my life.
This piece on body image put words to feelings I’d never had the words to describe. It is why I started reading Feministe.
I don’t want to make Jill sad, but I loved this piece on loving and losing Percival.
Not just because I’m a cat person and was blubbing and sobbing as the words swam by, but because the experience of letting something/someone into your life and having them affect you so unexpectedly is very powerful.
God, yes.
Yes indeed. I loved that it spoke to grief, but also the sometimes narrow definitions of love, and who and what, is family.
I think these are all posts by guest posters (but not because I don’t love you, Jill). These are just posts that I found really memorable:
Ain’t I a Mama
Race, Class and Street Harassment
PSA
Oscar Grant, Audre Lorde, Trungpa Rinpoche and the question of loving your enemies:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/07/03/oscar-grant-audre-lorde-chogyam-trungpa-rinpoche-and-the-question-of-loving-our-enemies/
Sigh. The links didn’t show up, except for the last one. Damn.
This one was pretty bad ass.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/06/01/why-wearing-mini-skirts-is-a-feminist-issue/
A couple of these go back aways:
Confronting Citizenship in Sexual Assault: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/04/14/confronting-citizenship-in-sexual-assault/ (Brownfemipower)
In fact, all of the stuff BFP wrote about Detroit/Michigan, ruin porn, and poverty in her last guest-blogging stint here (linked in her post): http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/09/25/movement-rust-belt-style/
Trust, Mutuality and Co-creation Within Feminsm: The Art of Building a Movement: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/27/trust-mutuality-and-co-creation-within-feminism-the-art-of-building-a-movement/ (La Lubu)
This one is easy for me – Autumn Whitefield-Madrano’s, “I Can Handle It,” which is an excellent essay about domestic violence, and how it can happen to anyone. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve shared this with people in my life.
Here’s the link:
Hmm. I seem to also be having linking problems. Let me try that again:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/08/08/i-can-handle-it-on-relationship-violence-independence-and-capability/
This one, too!
I’ve felt I could have written some of the cat posts myself.
Also, sorry I’m too technologically limited to be able to link, but, as a card player, I’ll support the post about the woman who dated the Magic world champion and then tried to humiliate him.
I liked the post about the high school that had an unreasonable dress code (I forgot what it was called). Not only did I like the article itself, but I also liked the fact that a few students from that school commented on that post. I thought that was pretty cool.
I reckon you’re referring to “Students at Stuyvesant Take Issue With Dress Code”, where the dress code was blatantly designed to target female students rather than males: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/05/28/students-at-stuyvesant-take-issue-with-dress-code/
Yep, that’s the one.
Still love this one:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/23/what-color-are-the-holes-in-your-parachute/
Came to say this. Really brilliant.
I want to thank you for bringing attention to Lindsay Zoladz’s article Never Said Nothin’ for teaching me cunt is a reasonable word to use for female sexuality and introducing me to so many expressive women musicians.
I was a guest blogger a few years back, and I thought the best stuff came from BFP and Maia Williams, especially her brilliant badassery ex-pat writing about motherhood was simply divine.
Delurking to cosign to bfp’s series on the Rust Belt and Maia Williams’ guestblogging.
I also dig Lauren’s “Tammy and the Switchblade Lilies” (which isn’t online anymore) and other stories of teen mother struggle in the Rust Belt (detecting a theme here? yeah. basically, anything that features nontraditional perspectives on feminism, ‘specially if it centers working class and/or rust belt folks.)
There are a lot. I’ll have more. I’ll start by noting what could almost be called the founding post, though it literally was not, back when this was the solo blog of a never-married single mom working her way to a degree at in West Lafayette, Indiana: <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2003/10/22/rape-as-i-know-it/"Rape As I Know It.
BTW, most of the early archive pages won’t load for me.
Thomas’s Predator Theory post competes with Derailing For Dummies for my most-linked piece of writing on the internet.
Wow! It reminds me of the piece I read on child molester Jerry Sandusky in the New Yorker. Predation is predation, and so very calculated and adaptive.
There are so many. In addition to the ones others listed I love this post by blue milk:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/08/19/what-does-a-feminist-parent-look-like/
Or the series on Home by Chally (starting here):
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/03/02/where-are-you-from-part-1/
This post by Lauren made me cry and then curl up in a ball and then do some healing:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/11/21/one-abuse-script-with-many-faces/
This series by amandaw was amazing:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/08/19/things-that-make-my-life-easier-a-reintroduction-part-1-of-3/
There are so many more. But I have to go to sleep!
Thanks for sharing the link to Amanda’s post! I had seen some of the earlier posts cited there, but I missed this one and it’s fantastic.
Whoops – I meant Lauren’s post (the one about gaslighting/abuse). It seems my morning coffee hasn’t kicked in yet!
I still recommend this one to people…
My Sluthood, Myself
La Lubu’s “What color are the holes in your parachute” was amazing. I also loved Maia’s post on motherhood, so both of those are my favorite. And there was a guest poster, blue milk I think, who wrote on capitalism. Loved hers too.
………..I can’t pick one.
“Toward A Liberationist Feminism,” by jess h., August 2008, without a doubt: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/22/toward-a-liberationist-feminism-or-i-hope-pro-capitalist-feminism-is-an-oxymoron/
One powerful story I can’t find anymore was with the guest poster talking about her experiences being assaulted by her older female partner, and the dual stories that arose from the situation.
Not really “the best”, but I think the ones I remember most are Zuzu and Pliny’s posts on the Twisty Blowjob Brouhaha back in 2006.