Blog Sisters     by jeneane99

Drucilla Blood has been publishing her thoughts and ramblings in one format or another since, as a sophomore in high school, she started a zine called Lime Green Bulldozers. She currently resides in Austin, TX, where she takes frequent breaks from her adventures to spew ideas into the ether.

Weblogs:
Full Bleed: Confessions of a zine girl
Clothespins for the Revolution
Radical Homeschool Blog

Over the course of her active and opinionated lifetime, Elaine has (among many other things) taught Eighth Grade English; co-led the team that instituted the successful collaboration between the New York State Education Department and the State Council on the Arts; wrote legislation for the State Senate establishing what is now the New York State Theater Institute; had her poetry published in a major anthology; won a local swing dance contest; led arts-based self-empowerment workshops for women; marched in Washington in support of liberal and feminist issues; wrote an alumnae speech given by Jane Fonda; had a grant proposal she wrote for a university program in Engineering and Ethics used by the NEH as a model proposal; and gave birth to (and as a single mother raised) two amazing kids: the infamous www.theonetruebix.com and the irrepressible http://home.attbi.com/~cwyln/. She is still a feminist, still opinionated, and still learning.Weblog:http://www.kalilily.net

Gina holds a Ph.D. in educational administration, a B.A. in U.S. History, and a Master of Public Administration degree. She is married and childfree, loves all animals, especially dogs. In addition to writing, she enjoys organic gardening, volunteer work, and reading.

Weblog:
http://www.gullybrookpress.blogspot.com/

Other Sites:
http://www.gullybrookpress.com/

Deb works full time at a public college in New Jersey and teaches courses in American literature, composition, and women's studies. She has a Ph.D. in literature, and her research and writing focuses mainly on women and American Indians in the 19th century and the ways in which they created political agency through writing and activism. Together with her husband, she parents an amazing son who is now 6 years old. Their family also includes a standard poodle, two guinea pigs, 4 hermit crabs, numerous fish. Demographically speaking, she is white, Jewish, middle class, liberal and a US citizen. She is passionate about her immediate and extended family, friends, literature, feminism and progressive politics, food, teaching, learning. She sees her blog as a form of autobiography that encourages collaboration, dialogue, and constant revision.

Weblog:
http://caxton.stockton.edu/distracted

Other site:
http://caxton.stockton.edu/bookish

Rosemary grew up in a middle-class academic family. Her father is a linguistics professor and her mother is an administrator and an art history/literature geek. After earning a bachelors in biomedical sciences, specializing in neuroscience, at Kings College London, Rosemary moved to San Diego, CA, where she works as a research associate in a diabetes research lab. "I'd like to move in to the field of public health, specifically public health education programs, but I'm still trying to figure that one out," she says. Rosemary considers herself a decidedly lefty-libertarian, who tends to show more interest in socio-political issues like human rights and feminism than in the large global political debates. Never married and with no children, Rosemary is in a stable monogamous relationship with a 24-year-old civilian technical instructor for the Navy. "I think that one of the things world/society needs most of all is better education; teaching people how to think and stretch their minds would decrease prejudice and fear of the unknown greatly, and give us happier citizens in general, rather than emotionally frustrated hoards who can barely parrot back what they memorised in school, and will never be able to fulfill their potential because it was stifled too soon," she says.

Weblog:
http://painfullyfluffy.blogspot.com/

Andrea was born three weeks early on December 31st, and since then has been just as eager to get out into the world and experience it. She has lived on a sailboat, traveled most of the United States, been on three continents, and hopes to visit the rest someday. She likes to defy the stereotype of the pasty-faced, logic-loving, outdoors-fearing technologist. As often as she likes to go out and wander the web, she also likes to go out and wander through the woods. As often as she likes to write code, she also likes to write poetry and stories. She is passionate about reading and writing, technology, nature, Mr Wiggins, maintaining a childlike wonder about the world and a healthy sense of adventure. She likes to volunteer her services for things like Blog Sisters, the Blogsticker Factory, mediAgora, and create free web sites for good causes. She also reads and watches too many cartoons, and has yet to decide what she's going to be when she grows up.

Weblog:
http://www.jngm.net/arjlog/


Other Sites:
The Geek Icon

Esta is passionate about history, baking, and getting her hands dirty; Sleater-Kinney, Ani DiFranco and other women who let it hang out. She says she's also interested in "choral music; poetry, stripping religion of its stigma, promoting free thought among teenagers, and yelling at SUVs on the interstate." Beyond that, Esta says she tries to be a considerate and loyal friend, daughter and sister.

Weblog:
http://www.diaries.com/es

Finishing up an honours degree in communications, Jen X is interested in reading and writing, looking after her cats, hanging out with friends, watching movies and having interesting conversations about everything from the correct use of various slang terms to the prevalence of advertising and the treatment of women overall. "I don't claim social relevancy or even importance to any of what I do," she says. "It's entertainment, it's me being open and honest, as I am in real life, and hopefully it'll open your mind or teach you something."

Weblog:
http://eiram.blogspot.com

Other publications:
Articles for the Whore's Boudoir can be found at http://drunkenwhore.blogspot.com

Liz is a mother to two young sons, wife to a stay-at-home dad, and daughter to two wonderful, smart, loving parents. She's an early adopter of technology, an ENFJ, and an irrepressible smartass. Her life is defined and enriched by the people in it, but those relationships are supported and strengthened by technological tools like e-mail and blogging.

Weblogs:
http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/mamamusings/

"I am 29 and living with cancer," Mare writes. "How do you think I feel today?"

Weblog:
http://www.bullseye.blogspot.com/

Jennifer is married to a wonderful man who works in IT and has a beautiful seven year old daughter. Jennifer's foremost passion is music and art. She paints in acrylic on canvas and draws in Photoshop. In 2002 her 4 x 3 acrylic painting, "Liberty Eternal" auctioned for $1,000.00. Jennifer is not a musician but she supports local music in NC by writing music reviews, going to shows and posting club schedules on her art site. Jennifer is a dean's list student working on her associate's degree before going for her Bachelor's. She hopes to own her own art gallery and music bar someday.

She is currently heading up a team of walkers for the MS Walk in April 2003 in honor of her mother, who has Multiple Sclerosis. In November 2002, she was the Libertarian candidate for NC House District 61, running against a Republican. Jennifer made history by earning 21% of the vote, a record number for a third party in her county. She was also the third political candidate in the world to use a blog as part of her campaign. Guilford County, NC is now the political blog capitol of the world. She is most concerned about G/L/T/B equality. Jennifer also posed for a tasteful pin-up calendar featuring other Libertarian women-the 2003 NC Ladies of Liberty Calendar which earned national attention. Jennifer has served as secretary for the Libertarian Party of Guilford County, currently maintains their web site, and in the past served as Public Information Officer for the Student Government Association at CPCC. In between college she has acquired work experience in banking and customer service.

Weblog:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0113431/

Other Sites:
http://www.schulzart.com, http://www.gclp.org

Clancy has a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of North Alabama and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, respectively, and is working toward a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Scientific & Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota. Her primary research interest is blogging, but she is also interested in feminist studies. She's a southern woman who loves the Minnesota weather but misses biscuits & gravy, grits, and soul food. She likes TV, hip-hop, and campy movies like Earth Girls are Easy and Rock'n'Roll High School (the one with the Ramones, not Corey Feldman).

Weblog:
http://culturecat.net/

Other Sites:
http://umn.edu/home/ratli008/

Dorothea is currently working for the University of Wisconsin Survey Center on a two-year data-capture project. She says she is, in alphabetical order, "Agnostic, avid reader, Caucasian, carfree, childfree, female, feminist, IXTJ, markup geek, married, occasional programmer, teetotaler, RPGer, vegetarian, and probably a few other things that don't leap to mind."

Weblog:
http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/

Other Site:
http://textartisan.com/

Jeneane is a well-known weblogger on her personal blog, allied (http://allied.blogspot.com), and a business blogging pioneer who began blogging in 2001 and founded the first women's team blog, Blog Sisters (www.blogsisters.com ), that same year. She is a Board Member and Contributing Editor to the high-profile women's community, BlogHer , and she has been featured in such publications as Business Week, The New York Times and The Sunday Times Online. Jeneane has helped several companies with their social media and blogging strategies and implementations, including Cox Communications, BubbleShare, Qumana, Rojo, ChickAdvisor.com, and StyleFeeder. She also serves on a number of Web 2.0 advisory boards, including the Media 2.0 Workgroup.
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Jeneane is an escapee from BigPR, with nearly two decades in traditional public relations and marking roles, with 5 spent at the Ketchum Atlanta office. Jeneane contributed to the branding, launch, and positioning of more than 50 clients while at Ketchum, many during the dot-com boom. As Senior E-Business writer, she was responsible for concepting and writing virtually every type of communication - web sites, brochures, ads, white papers, articles, scripts, marketing plans, speeches, launch strategies, and more - for every imaginable audience and market.

She lives in Atlanta with her husband George Sessum (http://musick.blogspot.com) and her daughter Jenna.

Weblog/Websites

Allied
Jeremy Outerbridge
Blog Sisters
Sessum.com
Jeneane's Portfolio Site