8-2 Blog: Best Practices

I chose Feministing as my example of a blog that I believe best demonstrates the desired function of a blog as a source of substantive writing and delivery of information. It reflects not only the goal of feminism, which is to strive for equality for everyone - not just women - but covering issues that present barriers to equality on the grounds of gender, race, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status, but also reflects the blog's purpose:

"Feministing is an online community for feminists and their allies. The community aspect of Feministing – our community blog, campus blog, comment threads, and related social networking sites – exist to better connect feminists online and off, and to encourage activism. We hope that the Feministing community will provide a forum for a variety of feminist voices and organizations."

Updated daily by a staff of journalists, academics, and figures of the feminist movement, Feministing offers a continuously wide array of stories. Their regular posts "The Weekly Feminist Reader" and the "Feminist Cheat Sheet" provide readers with a quick overview of the issues occurring that day, world-wide. Every story and every source is properly credited, accompanied by appropriate disclaimers for content, AKA, "trigger-warnings" for particularly graphic content, or proper labeling of editorials versus legitimate news articles.

The Weekly Feminist Reader for August 11, 2013, for example, provides a quick overview of political scandals and legislation, literary news, issues concerning education, race, rape-culture, and the prision-industrial complex:

Since when does VICE produce good reporting on sexual violence?
Minors with disabilities held in solidarity confinement in San Francisco juvenile hall.
Little Libertarians on the prairie.
More research on encouraging girls to pursue STEM.
The Pentagon’s new plan to combat military sexual assault doesn’t do enough.
Your computer is sexist.
Decades too late, Henrietta Lacks’ family is asked for consent.
“Why teach kids not to rape when you could teach them not to get caught?”
Newsflash, Hollywood: suicide isn’t quirky-cute-fun.
Unpaid interns are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment.
Texts from the yellow wallpaper.
Drag in the military sparks world’s least surprising controversy.
Of course dystopian YA novels are popular.
Go read Emi Koyama’s Twitter timeline from the last few days for info on how she was censored by white male “allies” at Forging Justice.
A childhood introduction to racism.
The Miami police killed Reefa, a celebrated teen graffiti artist.
Zimmerman and Drones.
Sexual harassment in comic book form.
Mini-doc: “Where Am I Going?”
The feminist history of school lunches.
Internet trolls = witch hunters?
Oprah received an apology for racist treatment in Switzerland.
The most recent episode of Belabored touches on domestic workers’ rights and the March on Washington’s upcoming anniversary.
Free article on dolls from Girlhood Studies!
Freshmen, meet your “relationship goals” with one simple step: Just stop getting raped!
Stone Cold Jane Austen.
FCC orders lower prison phone rates.
New abortion limits, but more money for women’s health, in Texas.
Wonkette pens a letter to Weiner.