Recently wordpress, as the host of blue milk, made some changes which meant that I no longer have a blogroll. My blogroll had an extensive list of recommended feminist blogs, particularly blogs written by feminist mothers or fathers. Judging from my blog stats those links were popular. I’m miffed. So, I’m going to set up new lists on this blog for readers. If you have a blog about feminism or feminist motherhood or feminist fatherhood and you’d be happy to be included on my list can you please let me know by leaving a link to your site in comments?
This is my chance to plug you and also to discover any overlooked blogs by feminist parents out there on the Internet.
Speaking of feminist parenting communities I’m really excited about the first ever Carnival of Feminist Parenting. It is over here at the very super Mothers for Women’s Lib. Read it, submit something for the next Carnival, or even offer to host a future carnival.
my blogroll disappeared too. but i went into the dashboard and inserted ‘links’ back into my widgets. it said there was no input or something like that, but when i went back to the blog, the blogroll had appeared again exactly as it had been! maybe it will work for you too…
How strange to lose your blogroll, mine didn’t disappear, which is no consolation to you but makes the problem stranger.
what a pisser!
I’m going to have to check my blogroll is still there now.
I missed it! looking forwards to see what happens next.
How strange for your blogroll to disappear like that. It must be a coding mistake on their part. Check the forums to see if people are asking about it. I hope it will be restored to your blog soon! (maybe just wait and see)
I missed the deadline for the first carvival but will definitely submit for the next.
Would love to be added to your blogroll once you get it back!
Yeah, my blogroll also disappeared, and I was able to fix it just as meli described. So try going into widgets.
I’d be honored if you’d add me. You’ve been on my blogroll for a while. I’m at http://kittywampus.wordpress.com/
Also thanks for linking to the carnival! Cool stuff.
I would love to be in your blog roll. Think I was there before…
Do check to see if you can get it back via your dashboard widgets. If not, please consider adding me back in.
That was exceedingly clever of wordpress.
I know you had me there, but did you have Stargazer, written by Anjum, a mother of two teenage daughters, Muslim, feminist, activist, Indian, New Zealand. She writes a great blog.
Also The Hand Mirror.
I’m pretty awesome, you could add me.
That happened to me too, and I followed meli’s advice. I grabbed the links widget and dragged it to the sidebar. A note popped up saying something about there being no content for the widget, but I left it there anyway and checked my home page……and my blogroll reappeared!!
thanks meli!
My blogroll vanished only to reappear a few days later too.
It’s probably just some wierd wordpress thing.
That sucks! I don’t know if I was there, but I’d like to be on the new list. I’m a feminist mother who blogs with attitude.
Funnily enough, I was looking for your blogroll the other day (needing something good to read) and couldn’t find it. When you make a new one, please include me: http://www.charlotteotter.wordpress.com
I’m a femininst mother with a blog, but I don’t know if it’s a feminist mother blog.
But I’m looking forward to your blogroll returning to its former glory, because I do love reading feminist mother blogs. How can a person really be a mother and not be a feminist, I wonder?
You had me down as feminist fatherhood. I appreciated the link, which is reciprocated, and would be pleased to see it there again.
In all honesty I think calling me feminist is generous of you. I am probably so compared to men of my father’s generation, and maybe even many of my own, and I certainly seek an active role in parenting and the household. But I’m contrarian, liable to dummy spits (as per back in my archive about 4 weeks), and hold an overall worldview that probably only sits 2/3 of the way towards compatibility with what you would call feminism. I think.
So anyway, just saying, kinda disclosure so I don’t let you down by failing to live up to such a term.
But I do enjoy waffling on about my kids, so we definitely have that in common =p
I went searching for feminist mom blogs, found yours, and now get to let you know about mine. Thanks, Google! Since I haven’t had my daughter yet (gimme a few days…she’s coming anytime now) it’s more of a pregnancy blog, but I will keep it going once the actual parenting begins.
Thanks!
kate
http://experimentalsoupmaking.blogspot.com/
You are not the first person I’ve heard of with the disappearing blogroll.
I have a feminist mothering blog and would love to be included (I also had a post in the Carnival of Feminist Parenting).
Here is my link: http://www.phdinparenting.com/
Hi,
We have a feminist childrearing blog at http://www.feministchildrearing.blogspot.com.
We are an anarchafeminist / anticapitalist collective based in the uk.
In sisterly solidarity,
CRAP (Child Rearing Against Patriarchy) Collective