Okay, right up front – this post revolves around #BlogHer16. Every year that I am fortunate enough to be able to attend this conference, I try to write something in preparation before heading out to the conference. I am writing it here this year as WLP would not exist without BlogHer. Allow me to explain. I […]
Juice, JuJu & Karma: The Price of Your Identity
This is an edited repost of an article originally posted on Nancy’s personal blog in May 2013. ———– Do you every ask yourself, who am I helping with my participation in this ad campaign or blogging network? Perhaps you should. Helping yourself, helping your community, and helping global corporations all have very different reward structures […]
Collectivism, My Favorite New Identity
This is an edited repost of an article originally posted on Nancy’s personal blog in April of 2014. ———— I have a new identity! I’m a collectivist! I have not changed, but there is a revitalized use of a label I have not previously embraced, but that I will now gladly blazon with every opportunity. […]
July Legacy Prompts
The Women’s Legacy Project publishes a monthly post with prompts intended to help chroniclers of all sorts consider events, topics, and people related to the month at hand. The post contains between 30 and 50 prompts. Monthly Musings July 1, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, one […]
Take Me as I Say Not as I Do
Today, while I was updating a woefully out-of-date profile on WordPress/Gravatar I re-affirmed a most basic part of myself. I am in awe of life. Old enough to know better. I wander in awe amid the complexity, order, and nuance of life. The ripples of small acts amplify my belief in goodness. I try to […]
Intersectionality and Legacy
Intersectionality is a concept applied by black feminists, womanists, to the additive nature of inclusion in non-dominant social groups. Poverty, class, male privilege, and white privilege all reinforce and strengthen the dominant norms of wealth, class, male privilege, and white privilege from which other norms are derived such as beauty, worth, and intelligence. I like the concept that intersecting […]