Four and a half months ago, in response to controversies involving this site and more general issues of discrimination, underrepresentation, devaluation, harassment, stalking of and FBI-investigated death threats against women bloggers, a Take Back the Blog event took place at my humble, now soon-to-be blogospherically defunct site. It did not change the world or even necessarily the blogosphere, but it provided a forum for education and for the expression of personal experiences of women bloggers and women generally in the face of patriarchal expectations, patriarchal conduct and patriarchal privilege. I consider it to have been a modest but real success.
Now I need your help. If this diary is an improper venue in which to request this help, I request guidance and direction from Kos Media and will comport myself accordingly.
I request volunteers to serve as the custodians of this 2007 event's HTML content and, ideally, to consider hosting future such events as may be desirable, consistent with feminist goals and aspirations and needed for the welfare of the community in the future.
My site, crablaw.com, the home of my Crab Media web projects until recently, has served as the home for multiple blog projects including Crablaw Maryland Weekly. Due to family needs, professional needs and other circumstances, I have had to separate myself from blogging completely; the details don't matter here. Included in the word "completely" is my domain crablaw.com. I will be converting the domain entirely to professional use in the next several weeks, and will not be hosting non-law practice related content therein from now on. Accordingly, the TBTB material needs to go to a happy home.
Many of the contributors to TBTB were active Kossacks, and many other Kossacks with feminist values who did not contribute may find the subject matter of interest both as archive material, as a basis for convoking regularly a gathering of feminist bloggers in the future and for the content value of the posts themselves. Accordingly, I would be grateful if any Kossack, perhaps a Kossack with a strong, activist feminist orientation, would consider taking custody of a copy of that lengthy post, and storing it towards future productive use.
Otherwise, I must discard it and its related support material out of crablaw.com.
If you are interested in discussing this, please comment below or feel free to email me at
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(Yeah, got spammed nasty recently, not playing....) In addition, I would be extremely grateful if readers of other feminist blogs could disseminate word to those bloggers as well. I don't want to be an irresponsible custodian; this is an attempt to honor, not trash, the voices who spoke out with clarity, passion and a demand for justice in April.
Please accept my thanks in advance for your consideration. Thank you.