About Our Blogroll

Probably this is the kind of post you write when you first establish a blog, but I guess better late than never.

Currently there are five sections to our Blogroll:

1. Other places we write
Some of The Hand Mirror’s writers also blog elsewhere. These are the other blogs their work appears on, as well as here. There is original content by our writers (i.e. stuff that hasn’t been posted here) on each of these blogs and they are well worth a good looksie.

2. Other NZ women in Blogland
This is a list of all the blogs I can find that have NZ women writing on them, either on their own or as part of a team.

By “NZ women” I mean women who either openly identify as New Zealanders and are based in Aotearoa or overseas, or are immigrants to NZ from another country. There is no intention to list only feminists, or to label all of these bloggers feminist. The idea is to promote the blogging of NZ women, regardless of subject matter or politics. To this end please do let me know if your blog, or another you are aware of that meets the criteria, is missing and I will add it in.

Most of these blogs have come to my attention through the blogrolls of others. I am also sporadically working through the blog listings at the excellent site Kiwiology to pick up any women I have missed, although this is taking a long long time.

This portion of the blogroll was converted to a most recent post listing in January 2009. A few of the feeds may not be working properly - if your blog is one of those please get in touch so we can work out how to fix it.

3. Other NZ Blogs
These are NZ blogs who don’t have any women writing on them but are generally progressive in their outlook. These are left-of-centre/progressive bloggers who have, at least sometimes, been supportive of feminism and women's participation in public life.

4. Foreign Feminists
This only scratches the surface of the vast array of overseas bloggers writing from a feminist perspective. At the moment this list is dominated by American and Australian blogs, and if you have some from another part of the world to suggest feel free to do so in comments or by email.

5. Carnivals
Here we have a list of blog carnivals which make a point of featuring women, and/or are explicitly feminist. If you are aware of a carnival that should be added to this list please let me know.


So there you go, now you know!

Last updated January 26th 2009