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posted by bitchphd
Announcement time! I've just started a new gig as a Culture Editor at the Suicide Girls News Blog. By way of drumming up hits, my first post there is a summary of how, exactly, Plan B works, something I've wanted to write up in one easily linked post for a while now. Mostly I'll be writing about repro rights stuff over there; I'm already thinking it'll be an interesting task to find my voice for a different kind of site.
I've also started doing the occasional post over at The Valve, where I can already tell that my voice is going to be sort of tongue-permanently-in-cheek; we'll see if the Very Serious Project of Literary Blogging can handle a monkey in the drawing room once in a while. Both there and at The Long 18th, another academic blog, I'm writing under a different name; halfway observant readers will figure it out, but for the record (and as per my MLA talk), the writer-persona distinction is one that matters to me and that I enjoy playing with, so here's hoping no one conflates the two or ruins the fun of the game of "everyone who wants to, knows, but we all enjoy pretending not to."
Of course, the public/private spheres will overlap, and I realize that by blogging for Suicide Girls I've pretty much given up any chance I might've had to be hired by the 2016 Pelosi for President campaign. But if Gloria Steinem could be a Playboy Bunny, I can darn well write for a hipster softcore pinup site. As Ezra said not too long ago, anyone who wants to crap on a liberal blogger for getting paid can bite me. (Ezra didn't actually say that; I'm summarizing.) And, since I'm a mass of contradictions, I not only want to maintain the fiction of my writer/persona distinction, I also want to blur the lines between "appropriate" and "inappropriate" discourse--so it seems to me a noted bitchy feminist writing feminist content on a softcore site that itself is playing around with the issue of where, exactly, sexual desire and porn interact with and part ways from feminism, is an interesting and worthwhile project.
I've also started doing the occasional post over at The Valve, where I can already tell that my voice is going to be sort of tongue-permanently-in-cheek; we'll see if the Very Serious Project of Literary Blogging can handle a monkey in the drawing room once in a while. Both there and at The Long 18th, another academic blog, I'm writing under a different name; halfway observant readers will figure it out, but for the record (and as per my MLA talk), the writer-persona distinction is one that matters to me and that I enjoy playing with, so here's hoping no one conflates the two or ruins the fun of the game of "everyone who wants to, knows, but we all enjoy pretending not to."
Of course, the public/private spheres will overlap, and I realize that by blogging for Suicide Girls I've pretty much given up any chance I might've had to be hired by the 2016 Pelosi for President campaign. But if Gloria Steinem could be a Playboy Bunny, I can darn well write for a hipster softcore pinup site. As Ezra said not too long ago, anyone who wants to crap on a liberal blogger for getting paid can bite me. (Ezra didn't actually say that; I'm summarizing.) And, since I'm a mass of contradictions, I not only want to maintain the fiction of my writer/persona distinction, I also want to blur the lines between "appropriate" and "inappropriate" discourse--so it seems to me a noted bitchy feminist writing feminist content on a softcore site that itself is playing around with the issue of where, exactly, sexual desire and porn interact with and part ways from feminism, is an interesting and worthwhile project.
Labels: employment, mememe, metablogging
Posted at 2:50 PM
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