research in progress day

Today I did a short presentation in the Research in Progress day held by the Deparment. This included an overview of the project and some reference to the study I have done so far. It went well and I received some valuable feedback, regarding my standpoint in particular and how this should be communicated clearly in the project. It was suggested, and I have come to agree with that after the first month of the research, that looking into how feminisms are articulated through the blogs of disabled/ill women might not be the road I want to follow. Politics are important and the question still remains how blogging serves as an activist practice for women, I will just not be accessing whether or not bloggers identify with feminisms.

At this point, I have also included Astrid’s Journal from Nederland and The Beauty Offensive from Britain in my corpus list, in an effort to make the study more Europe-focused. I have had great difficulty tracking down blogs written by women concerning disability/illness that are either from the UK or continental Europe. Disability carnivals and blogrols from more popular blogs link mostly to US based or Canadian bloggers. I assume that European bloggers use languages other than english and given that I could only read either English or Greek (my dutch and french are really inadequate for anything but tourism), I am scanning for greek disabled women bloggers(I have so far looked for αναπηρία, τύφλωση, σκλήρυνση κατά πλάκας).

This post then is an open call for anyone who knows of disabled-mentally ill, chronically ill, impaired-women european bloggers. Also, an invitation still for communicating through the questions I posted previously.