About
Check out our mission statement, to the right! In keeping with that mission, we frequently post Guest Posts and invite submissions (see “Submit Your Ink“).
Regular Columns
- Nice Work (Virginia Rutter, Editor): social science in the real world
- The Man Files (Shira Tarrant, Editor): a column with rotating authorship, bringing together some of the most provocative thinking about feminism and masculinity on the web
- Science Grrl (Veronica Arreola, Editor): the latest research and press on girls and women in science & engineering
- Mama w/Pen (Deborah Siegel, Editor): reflections on emergent motherhood, feminist and otherwise
- Girl Talk (Allison Kimmich, Editor): truths and fictions about girl
- Generation Next (Courtney Martin, Editor): myths and facts about a new generation of activists
- Off the Shelf (Elline Lipkin, Editor): book reviews and news
- Bedside Manners (Adina Nack, Editor): applying the sociological imagination to medical topics, with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health
- Body Language (Alison Piepmeier, Editor): Because control of our bodies is central to feminism. (”It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.” –Lucy Stone, 1855)
- The Xena Files (Leslie Heywood, Editor): a fresh and feminist take on literal girl power
- Global Mama (Heather Hewett, Editor): myths and realities of motherhood and family life in a globalized world
- The Intersectional Feminist (Allison McCarthy, Editor): author interviews and essays with an eye on critiquing kyriarchy — a “complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression” (neologism coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, made popular by Lisa Factora-Borchers)
- Beyond Pink and Blue (Lori Rotskoff, Editor): explorations of gender stereotypes and realities in children’s lives.
- Pop Goes Feminism (Natalie Wilson, Editor): an intersectional feminist analysis of popular culture
Comment Policy
We encourage and invite your comments on all our posts! We maintain a spirit of civil discourse over here. We’re happy to have disagreements — and frequently do, even amongst ourselves — but we don’t tolerate no disrespect. Please respect the community, and that means the editors and guest posters as well as readers and other commenters too.
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Editors
Deborah Siegel
Virginia Rutter
Shira Tarrant
Veronica I. Arreola
Allison Kimmich
Courtney Martin
Adina Nack
Heather Hewett
Elline Lipkin
Leslie Heywood
Allison McCarthy
Alison Piepmeier
Lori Rotskoff
