A conference that attracts thousands of women content creators and thousands more individuals employed by vendors and publishers that work with, or in support of, those women creates a massive vortex, for lack of a better word, of women’s energy. This exists beyond the corporate entities that control, coordinate, and sponsor the media sites and conference. This […]
BlogHer: Staging Legacy
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. […]
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 […]
A Strawberry Solstice Moon
Full Moon on a Summer Solstice Occasionally celestial events co-occur. It seems that such an overlap is happening today. The Summer Solstice and the June Full Moon both happen today. That much is true. Everything else you might read about it could be bunk. Misinformation is everywhere. A cautionary tale to include your source when […]