{"id":3557,"date":"2012-04-12T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:02:06","slug":"blogging-and-womens-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/blogging-and-womens-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging – and women’s history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blogging<\/a><\/p>\n

People ask me what my blog is about, and every time I pause. I know I’m supposed to have an elevator speech prepared, I guess it’s time I start thinking about that.<\/p>\n

This blog has been through so many iterations. I started the first CoffeeJitters blog on LiveJournal back in 2001. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than ten years since that first blog post. A lot has changed over that decade.<\/p>\n

CoffeeJitters has been a single girl making her way in the world blog, a wedding blog, an infertility blog, a photography blog, a quitting my job and going back to school full time blog, a wow! I’m pregnant! blog, a mommy blog, a cancer blog, and a relearning how to dream after cancer blog.<\/p>\n

Mostly, it’s a love letter to my daughter and husband, and an ongoing autobiography. It is my story, and my practice honing my voice. It is my chance to be heard.<\/p>\n

I think in a way, that’s what a lot of us bloggers are doing. I keep picturing all the bloggers of the world at their computers furiously typing away in a clackity-clack version of the Whos that Horton heard, yelling at the top of their lungs, “We Exist!”<\/p>\n

Blogging allows us to make our mark on the world. To show that we exist. To have a voice and have it heard. To contribute to the ongoing story of the human race.<\/p>\n

My studies recently have centered a great deal around women’s history throughout the world, and the difficulty involved in truly understanding what a woman’s life was like. Mens stories were recorded, by men. Women’s stories… not so much.<\/p>\n

I look at blogging in comparison to that and I think: what a gift we are leaving for future generations. Is there any comparable resource in history to the wide range of women’s stories now available? Sure, there’s a good deal of exaggeration. That also exists in our history books. But there is so much more variety of stories and lifestyles represented. I’m proud to be a part of this movement. I’m so happy that future generations will have such a wealth of information about their ancestors – us. (On second thought, maybe I’d better go clean up a few of my posts)<\/p>\n

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