Recommended Women Bloggers, In No Particular Order

[miss_s_b]

There follows a list of female bloggers who may or may not fall into the definition of political that you use, but who are all very much worth reading. Lots of them are sciencey. This is not an exhaustive list. I just went through my userifo and grabbed out those who caught my eye. I have undoubtedly missed some people; this is because I am only human. Apologies if you are one of those I missed.

The People's Republic of Mortimer - if you're not already reading Alix, there's no hope.
innerbrat - despite her misgivings about being thrust into the politics blogging arena, I genuinely think Debi is one of the best bloggers out there. Feminist, scientist, comics geek, and one of my small daughter's biggest heroes. Debi is the very definition of awesome, and I love her to bits.
Lynne Featherstone MP - great site design, and a blog that illustrates very well how posting about local issues can be tied in seamlessly with what the nation is talking about.
Feminist SF - where feminism and science fiction collide.
strangefrontier - car-mad PhD scientist and stand-up comic. Not entirely cisgendered.
Mothers for Women's Lib - does what it says on the tin. A group blog for feminist mums.
pickwick - subtitler working for the BBC among others. Good source of insider info about the beeb, Doctor Who mad, very strong on freedom of information.
Geeka Chicas - a group blog run by asato_muraki by and for geeky women.
Feminist Law Professors - tends to concentrate on American law, but useful non-the-less.
caseytalk - an American diplomat currently living in Uzbekistan, who writes on a variety of subjects.
Pink Stinks - campaigning for non-gendered toys for children, and the non segregation of existing toys.
lizw - Scottish Lib Dem Christian, with very forthright and informed views.
When Fangirls Attack - link blog concentrating on gender issues in comics fandom. Surprisingly wide range of topics covered under this narrow-sounding heading.
el_staplador - Liberal Christian blogger. Very intelligent. Reminds me that atheists don't have the monopoly on rationalism. Not a stepladder fetishist, despite my initial misreading of her username.
Caron's Musings - about equally split between Lib Demmery, general politics, and Formula 1 racing.
lizbee - Australian bookstore worker, Doctor Who maniac, and feminist. Very witty. Good place to get a handle on Doctor Who fandom.
ihavecake - stand-up comedian transplanted to London from Yorkshire.
Sara Bedford - Lib Dem mum and Arsenal fan.
stormsearch - corset-mad sailor. Has interesting views on a variety of topics.
Charlotte Gore - everyone already reads Charlotte, right?
cesy - mathematician and lovely lovely person.
ginasketch (or ginasketch) - illustrator, feminist, and activist on mental health issues. Currently obsessed with entomology.
Crust of the Grouch - artist and non-aligned politics geek.
nanila - American expat scientist living in England and working on the Cassini spacecraft project.
PC Bloggs - has been somewhat inactive since being featured on radio four earlier this year, but still awesome.
neohippie - Texan bioscientist, pagan and anglophile. My abiding memory of Amanda when I met her was her joy that You guys have DARWIN on your MONEY!!!
Penny Red - feminist and Labour supporter who is totally supporting the wrong party.
purple_pen - lecturer in Roman History and geek about all sorts of things. We went to Leeds Pride with her this year, and she's very cool.
Jane Watkinson - a young Lib Dem, sometimes slightly naive but always entertaining.
Helen Duffett - Helen is Mum to every Lib Dem Blogger. She organises us, wipes our noses, smooths our clothes, and not one single person has a bad thing to say about her. Either she really is some kind of divine maternal presence, some incarnation of the Goddess, or she's a bloody good actress and has every single Lib Dem in the country completely fooled.

Comments

[burkesworks]

You forgot my little foul-mouthed friend on the Isle of Wight; not only does she prove that swearing can be Big and Clever, but her takedown of Cameron's keynote speech is fisking at its finest.

[miss_s_b]

Ah! She is on my LJ reading list, but not my DW one.

[(Anonymous)]

My dear, I am not and have NEVER been a member of the Labour party. I worked for them on digital inclusion once, and that's it. </ pedantry Thank you for the mention.

[miss_s_b]

Edited.

[scarier.wordpress.com]

Curse you Rigg! There's already too much in my feedreader! You've added some since the last time you did such a post, haven't you?

[miss_s_b]

Oh, probably. And some of the ones I linked to before will have gone inactive and things.

[strangefrontier]

I am honoured by inclusion, m'dear! And now I have Skunk Anansie stuck in my head: yes, it's fucking political, everything's political! I do have a lot of quite political rants, mostly about feminism, education and Ben Goldacrey sort of science-in-the-media topics, that never make it from my brain to my blog. With a little more note-taking and self-discipline some of those should start seeing the light of livejournal.

[innerbrat]

The trouble is, that crossposting LJ-to-DW is still not automatic, and so it might be a good idea to link my LJ. (as I have written since July, just not remembered to cross post)

[matgb]

If you're using Semagic, then post to DW, and it'll auto crosspost now as DW xposts everything unless you tell it not to.

Alternatively, hit the import button every so often, theoretically brings everything across including new comments on old posts.

But agree she should be linking to your primary locale.

[innerbrat]

1. I have a free account with DW, a permanent account with LJ. If I post to DW, I have a choice of 6 icons and I don't get all the metadata options that LJ offers.

2. Hitting the import button bring everything across, including everything that's already been imported, as I discovered to my horror.

[matgb]

1) Good point, and one I hadn't considered.

2) That's not good. It is, in fact, a bug--try running it again to see if they've fixed it? Last I looked, the importer was working pretty much exactly as wanted, but I haven't got a reason to use it currently.

[innerbrat]

Oh what do you know, I think it worked.

DAMMIT, DW, what did they do to their CSS?

[innerbrat]

No, it didn't work. Now if you skip back a couple of pages on my Dreamwidth, you get duplicate posts.

[matgb]

Bollocks, that sucks. Can you report it to support? It's definitely not supposed to be happening.

[innerbrat]

I could. I don't think I have time to, but I might do when I have the time.

[dry-valleys.livejournal.com]

I must confess there are few women on my 'roll- if they are writing about the things I'm interested in, they just haven't come to my attention yet. Accordingly I will look at some of them links.

Do you ever read Pandagon? I love it. :D

[po8crg]

I started reading both Pandagon and Shakesville after the John Edwards / Catholic Church thing, but eventually dropped Pandagon because I could only cope with one high volume feminist blog.

[miss_s_b]

Just had a look at it. I love the line yet another example of a Republican standing up for cruelty on the grounds that American penises will fall off if we don’t engage in needless cruelty for cruelty’s sake. but I get quickly bored of American politics...

[lizw]

Thanks! I'll check out some of the others you mention.

[ginasketch]

thanku. <3

[myliberaldemocratpoliticalramblings.wordpress.com]

Thanks for link, but can I ask how I am naive?

[miss_s_b]

You can ask. I'm not going to go through your blog for specific examples right now, but the fact that you're asking the question rather than looking back at your old posts yourself and trying to work it out might be a symptom.

[(Anonymous)]

:s

I don't think that is a requirement at all of being naive. I am not going to go back and say well maybe that is naive when i don't actually think i am. You are the one who has called it me, so i think its a bit unfair to make that claim and then not back it up with any evidence! I would rather know what you the reasoning of the claim is then me trying to guess.

[myliberaldemocratpoliticalramblings.wordpress.com]

I did that anonymously, but i think you know that was me (Jane) anyway.