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WomenArts News Room Blog Descriptions
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Adios Barbie
www.adiosbarbie.com/blog/
A blog dedicated to critically examining and challenging representations of women’s bodies in the media. (If you have trouble accessing this site with Internet Explorer, try Firefox or another browser.)
A Rehearsal Room of One’s Own
http://nicefeminist.blogspot.com/
Cultural commentary from “your average uppity, moderate-liberal, occasionally androgynous, pansexual, vaguely Christian, feminist, humanist, sensualist, gender activist/playwright/lover of human beings.”
Arlene Goldbard
www.arlenegoldbard.com
Culture, politics, spirituality, and arts policy.
Art and Beyond
http://liliannemilgrom.wordpress.com/
Artist Lilianne Milgrom blogs about the artistic process, the art she encounters in her travels, and how the feminine unconsciously finds its way into work by women artists.
Art Fag City
www.artfagcity.com
Writer and art critic Paddy Johnson writes about the New York art scene, often with a feminist slant.
Beyond Asiaphilia
http://beyondasiaphilia.wordpress.com/
Valerie Soe writes about Asian American arts, culture, films, and activism.
Bitch Magazine Blog
http://bitchmagazine.org/blogs
More feminist responses to pop culture from one of our favorite magazines.
Black Native Jewel
http://blacknativejewel.wordpress.com/
Christian Totty’s blog is devoted to exploring her own artistic process as a woman of color, and to highlighting the work of other women of color in the arts.
Blog This Rock
http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/
The blog of Washington DC-based Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness. Former WomenArts staffer and poet Sarah Browning heads this organization of DC poets for peace.
Bodylogue
http://bodylogue.blogspot.com/
New York-based writer and performer Deepti Gupta blogs about skin color, body image, and what it means to be a woman in relation to media representations and the culture at large.
Bright New Day
www.brightnewday.wordpress.com
Part of the cyberquilting experiment led by radical women of color, this blog features work that connects women of color through vision across space and time.
The Brooklyn Socialite
http://thebrooklynsocialite.wordpress.com/
Writer, artist, and clothing designer Robyn Hillman-Harrigan comments from Brooklyn, NY, on art, culture, and politics.
Club Des Femmes
http://clubdesfemmes.blogspot.com/
A positive female space for the re-examination of ideas through art. Based in London, the club also presents film screenings, discussions, and other events that celebrate women artists and look beyond the mainstream.
CultureGrrl
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/
Lee Rosenbaum blogs about arts world issues, arts blogging, and journalism issues with an emphasis on the visual arts.
Doc and a Drink
http://docandadrink.wordpress.com/
Documentary filmmakers Becky Beamer and Katy Jones review documentaries and drinks – they even sometimes include drink recipes.
Electric Lady
http://electriclady.wordpress.com
Independent filmmaker Gina Andreoli documents the trials, tribulations, and joys of producing a completely self-funded web series, Gemini Rising, with ruminations on such topics as when nudity is gratuitous and when it is art.
Elizabeth Appell
http://eappell2.wordpress.com/
Writer Elizabeth Appell has recently begun making films. She shares the joys and tribulations of exploring a new art form after a career in writing.
FBomb
http://thefbomb.org/
A blog for outspoken teenage feminists by Julie Zeilinger of Pepper Pike, OH, who turns an insightful, critical eye on subjects such as the sexism of marketing aimed at teenage girls, the experience of doing stand-up comedy as a young woman, and how young feminists can form positive romantic relationships.
The Feminist Guide to Hollywood
http://feministguidetohollywood.blogspot.com
Melanie Taylor documents her experiences as a feminist working and living in the entertainment industry in Hollywood. She reviews movies and comments on general media representation and reaction to women.
Feministing
www.feministing.com
Cultural criticism from a feminist viewpoint.
The Feminist Spectator
http://www.feministspectator.blogspot.com/
Feminist commentary on theatre, film, and television.
Grrrlsounds
http://www.grrrlsounds.com/
Music blog from a feminist, riot grrrl perspective, with news, reviews, and interviews of women musicians and DIYers. Focuses on punk, indie, and garage music, old and new.
Guerrilla Girls on Tour
www.guerrillagirlsontour.blogspot.com
Feminist activist performance artists the Guerrilla Girls blog about women in theatre, violence against women, feminism, activism, reproductive rights, street theatre, performance art, and women and food.
Hillgirlz
http://www.hillgirlz.com/blog_jewelle_gomez/
Writer and activist Jewelle Gomez blogs from the San Francisco Bay Area about writing, politics, and culture from the perspective of a lesbian of color.
The Hot Pink Pen
www.thehotpinkpen.com
Film critic and SWAN Day co-founder Jan Lisa Huttner reviews films written or directed by women.
In the Midst of Memory
www.inthemidstofmemory.blogspot.com
Jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts documents the making of a “sound narrative” about her family history. Many posts discuss how her own research is situated within the context of current studies of African diasporic history, examining and attempting to counter-balance the sexism of these studies.
Kunstblog
http://scribe-kunstblog.blogspot.com/
Journalist and short filmmaker Val Phoenix blogs from London about the arts, with a generous helping of social issues, politics, and queer feminism.
LA Female Playwrights Initiative
http://lafpi.com/about/blog/
Women playwrights of Los Angeles blog about striving for gender equality in the LA theatre world, the creative process, and other interesting topics. Excellent and insightful writing from some excellent playwrights who are helping the recently-formed LAFPI take off.
Life as an Artist
http://callieart.blogspot.com/
Brooklyn-based painter and photographer Callie Danae Hirsch blogs about making public art, the political and social implications of the art she sees on her travels, and the challenge of marketing ones art today.
Lynn Liccardo
www.redroom.com/member/lynnliccardo
Playwright Lynn Liccardo shares her critical observations about soap operas – their content, the industry that produces them, and the culture that both loves them and loves to ridicule them.
Minervana
http://www.minervana.com/Women-s-Rights-blog.html
Eli Aino blogs about the women’s rights movement around the globe, interviewing successful, creative women and reviewing books, films, and art exhibitions, with a focus on feminist alternatives to the mainstream.
Mira’s List
http://www.miraslist.blogspot.com
Writer Mira Bartok posts deadlines for grants, residencies and fellowships for artists, as well as interviews, articles, and other arts-related pieces. Her list is a great complement to our funding newsletters!
Movie Cross Rhodes
http://www.moviecrossrhodes.blogspot.com/
Nancy Keefe Rhodes is a Syracuse-based writer who covers film, photo and visual arts. She reviews films from a feminist perspective on her blog.
No Sleep Til Brooklyn
http://mofoartist.livejournal.com/
Feminist comic artist Sjögren Blücher blogs from Sweden about the creative process, trying to make it as a female comic illustrator and author, representations of women in art and on the internet, and trying to save up enough money to move to Brooklyn.
Performance Ethnography
http://performanceethnography.wordpress.com/
A storehouse of thoughts exploring performance as a mode of knowing and as a site of scholarship.
Poeta y Diwata
http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/about/
Writer Barbara Jane Reyes blogs about poetics, culture, and community from a Filipina-American perspective.
Seeing Black
www.seeingblack.com
Esther Iverem blogs about arts, media, and politics from a black feminist perspective.
See Light
http://clairelight.typepad.com/
Oakland, CA-based writer, editor, and teacher Claire Light is a founder and former senior editor of the Asian American magazine Hyphen. She blogs about literature, women’s issues, culture and politics.
Steady Diet of Film
http://steadydietoffilm.typepad.com/
Erin Donovan, a filmmaker and founder of indie documentary distributor A Million Movies a Minute edits and hosts a weekly podcast discussing current films with special guests, focusing on documentaries, cultural commentary, and women’s roles in all aspects of film.
Still in Motion
http://stillinmotion.typepad.com/
New-York based independent media producer, freelance writer, filmmaker and educator Pamela Cohn blogs about the craft of nonfiction cinema with a special emphasis on female experimental and nonfiction directors. The blog includes a series of interviews that she is turning into a book.
Susan Richards
http://www.susanrichardsmultiplevisionsstudio.blogspot.com/
Artist and writer Susan Richards muses on making art as a feminist political and spiritual practice.
That Little Black Book
www.thatlittleblackbook.blogspot.com
Weekly booklist and featured reviews of books by black feminist scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Timeless Rhythms
http://kerriebwrye.blogspot.com/
Artist Kerrie B. Wrye reflects on making art as a woman. Her blog also contains helpful links to resources for artists.
Transformative Media Justice
http://mediajustice.wordpress.com/
Media analysis and demonstrations of creative media justice from a cyberquilting experiment led by radical women of color.
Vertical Hyphen
http://www.lenellemoise.blogspot.com/
Performance poet and artist Lenelle Moïse blogs about “unmasking creativity. critiquing culture. telling true tall tales. ‘feministing’ femininity and queering the divine. one reclaimed word at a time.”
Waiting for the Muse
http://anntracy.blogspot.com/
Ann Tracy, who was the first woman on the air at radio station KTLK Denver in 1977, is a PR and creativity consultant as well as a photographer and journalist. Many of her blog posts explore the issues that women artists face involving self-esteem, motivation, and the need for community.
Wellywood Woman
http://wellywoodwoman.blogspot.com/
New Zealand scriptwriter Marian Evans blogs about film from a feminist perspective, with an emphasis on New Zealand women filmmakers.
Women In Hollywood
http://www.womenandhollywood.blogspot.com/
News, commentary, and reviews about women in Hollywood by Melissa Silverstein.
Zora – A Lit Blog from TORCH
www.torchpoetry.org/blog.htm
In the blog associated with TORCH, an online magazine of poetry, prose, and short stories by African American Women, Zora’s Metta Sáma interviews authors and investigates such topics as the absence of Spoken Word poets from academic settings.
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