Please, if this is stepping on toes/breaking rules/whatever, somebody let me know, and I will immediately delete this and post it in a more appropriate way. I was just aiming for more and longer in the visibility department.
But here’s the deal — lots of us, for various and completely understandable reasons, felt the need to leave the Big Orange behind a summer ago. Since then, there has been an unfortunate lack of strong, feminist voices at that particular place — a sad reality which poster hrh is trying to correct by starting a thursday night discussion group,
the Planet of the Savage DKos Feminist Supervixens.
(I have linked to one episode, but there are more under various other posters — I will link to tonight’s when it is posted).
This group will be meeting Thursday nights somewhere around 6 or 7, it seems.
So this is an invite, and it’s also a Spit commentary.
The invite part is this:
for those of you who are willing to poke your heads back into the orange place, the discussion is waiting for you. There will be one tonight, and there will be one next week, and all are welcome to join!
The Spit commentary part is this:
I completely understand the exodus that occured last summer, and in fact probably would have thrown up my hands and left myself, had I been around for the infamous pie wars. Still, I think there is some value in providing a feminist discussion space within what has become the mainstream, both to involve new people and to provide support for those who stayed. I see a lot of benefit in having that discussion be central to one spot for the time being; however, I also am willing, with hrh’s permission (which I’d still have to inquire about), to crosspost the discussion here, should there be a strong set of people who are really set in not going back, or who cannot for whatever reason.
Please come check it out if you can, and let me know if you’d like to see it crossposted or would prefer, as I would, to see the discussion grow in one spot first.
