Why Londonfeminist?
Well, I’m a feminist, and I’m in London.
I’d got that far. But what’s the point? Aren’t there enough feminist blogs?
There can never be too many. And anyway, this is London-specific, mainly. Behind it is the London Feminist Network’s forum, which is a women-only members-only discussion forum.
That sounds like a coven.
We mostly talk about politics, cake and the overthrow of the patriarchy.
Back to this blog: isn’t it a bit audacious to use the name londonfeminist? Do you think you speak for all feminists in London?
Obviously not. Feminism isn’t a single hive-mind theory. There are almost as many types of feminism as there are feminists: conservative feminists, progressive feminists, liberal feminists, radical feminists, socialist feminists. We all agree that we want equality for women, but we don’t always agree on how to do it. So no, I don’t speak for all London feminists – I don’t even speak for any one of those groups. But I got to the domain name registration first.
Can other people post here?
Of course. If you want me to publish a guest post, contact me on admin {at} londonfeminist {dot} com.
Can you tell me more about yourself?
I’m a full time lawyer, an armchair politician, activist, wannabe writer, talented grinker, forum administrator, I’m a member of LFN, the UK Legal Feminist Group and have been involved in Reclaim the Night.
What is the comment policy?
I love comments, please do leave them. However please try to be nice, even if you disagree with me / another commenter. Outright misogyny or ad feminam attacks will be deleted or replaced with childishly amusing text.
Hello Julian,
I’m a newbie at this exciting forum. Just wondered what a grinker is?
A grink is an unsolicited communication to a public body, usually written in green ink. Letters of complaint, outraged FOI requests, that sort of thing. And a grinker is one who writes them.
Hi, attended F-word at Rebellious Media Conference,
Was interested in continuing the discussion from that event so was going to sign up to London Fem network forum, but notice in the sign up it’s women’s only.
I understand the need for women’s only spaces but wondering where, as a male, I could be directed to continue on the discussion from that event,
Is there a possibly you could have a male friendly sub-forum?
Sorry, left my comment in the wrong place :s
Hi Ben, the forum is at present women only – and it would be impractical to open a sub-forum since at present I’m chucking out about 40 spammers a day, and it would allow guests to post. For the time being the blog is the public interface so do feel free to leave comments / start discussions on any topics there – or if you want to do a guest post, let me know.