The Political Voices of Women

Celebrating Women Political Bloggers!

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the 500+ women who are blogging about politics. Women are playing a powerful role in politics, and women bloggers are helping to lead the way. Our list of women blogging about politics, has just reached over 500!!!

To celebrate, I will be posting links to 100 women today, and then again each day, for the rest of the week.

One of my goals for this site, is that women will use each other’s sites, to link to in their own blogs, and promote each other.

So…If you have some time today, check out the first 100. Have you discovered some blogs you like? Let me know in comments, or in a post.

You can help promote women political bloggers. And, if you know someone not on the list, please send me their link, and I would be happy to add them.

Maybe you can even do a post on women political bloggers for your own site, and link to some of the women on this list.

Here are the first 100 from the list (in alphabetical order)…

1. A Brain Like Mine - Diary of a Feminist Housewife
2. A Lovely Promise — Human rights, war and peace, politics, and gardening.
3. A Mommy with an Attitude
4. A Series of Tubes — How are political groups using the internet to reach out to citizens? From YouTube debates to Facebook groups, this blog will tell you all about it.
5. Above Average Jane - PA Politics and GREAT interviews with pols and candidates
6. Nikki — According To Nikki
7. Adventures In Daily Living
8. Althouse
9. Always On Watch
10. Amanda Carpenter — From Townhall.com
11. American Princess — Party politics and the age of the Post and Prada
12. And Rightly So — I am not a politically correct person at all. I speak my mind and I could care less who I offend when doing so. I call a spade for a spade when needed. I also swear a whole lot - get ever it.
13. Anderson @ Large — I blog about politically black news and commentary, focusing on voter participation, voting rights, civil rights, religion and politics, and voting rights and technology.
14. Anna’s Clue Tank
15. Annie’s Inferno
16. Anonymous Is A Women — A blog about politics, religion, the economy, the culture wars - you know, all the fun stuff.
17. Antigone Magazine — A blog about women, politics, women in politics and the politics of being a woman.
18. Appetite for Equal Rights
19. Arianna Huffington — Huffington Post
20. Sandy Renshaw — Around Des Moines
21. Asheville on the Ground
22. Assorted Babble
23. Avedon Carol
24. Average Jane at Progress Ohio — Our mission is to provide quality online and off-line tools for use by individuals, groups and organizations to further their ideas and issues through communication and action.
25. A. M. Reynolds — Backyard Beacon — The Backyard Beacon is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan citizen-based watchblog that sheds light on underreported stories, particularly those in minority communities. The Beacon is a Newstex.com licensed Weblog distributed through the LexisNexis services.
26. BackyardConservative — Comments and Links from a conservative in the Chicago suburbs. This blog is a product of over 25 years of biting my tongue in polite society.
27. Bang the Drum - Rant and ramblings of a political junkie.
28. Barbara’s Blog
29. Barbara’s Tchatzkahs
30. Becky from Deep Muck Big Rake — So much muck, so little time.
31. Been There
32. Betsy’s Page
33. Big Girl Pants
34. Big Green Purse
35. Birth Pangs
36. Biscotti’s Blog
37. Black On Campus
38. Black Political Thought
39. Black Women, Blow The Trumpet!
40. Black Women Blogging
41. Black Women Vote!
42. Blatherings
43. Blog Fabulous
44. Blog For Democracy
45. Blog It Forward
46. Bloggg
47. Blogging Amerikkka
48. Blogging For Michigan
49. BlogHer — A community of Women Bloggers
50. BlogHer — Election 2008
51. Blogs By Women
52. Blonde Sagacity — The conservative that liberals hate to love.
53. BlondeSense
54. Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
55. Blue Bloggin — My liberal blog focuses on Texas and national politics, political corruption, the environment and what every else pops in my head.
56. Blue Gal
57. Blue Girl, Red State — I’m an over- educated, pissed-off redhead with a broadband connection and a credit card; fiercely dedicated to the Constitution; here to remind y’all that America is founded on four boxes: 1.)The Soapbox. 2.)The Ballot Box. 3.)The Jury Box. 4.)The Ammo Box. They should be used in that order. This is my soapbox.
58. Blue Linchpin
59. Blue Spot
60. Blue Star Chronicles
61. Bluedaze — You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi
62. BOHEMIAN Adventures
63. Bold Words — Exploring How Bold Words Can Give Life To Bold Ideas
64. Bottom Line Up Front — Amy
65. Bride of Acheron
66. Brilliant at Breakfast
67. Brown Sugar
68. Build Peace — Arizona-based blog by a woman peace activist, mother, writer, anthropologist, semiotician — most often political, but not always. Original scoops and reporting have included Raging Granny arrests and Howard Dean`s positive interactions with Arizona CODE
69. BWFO — Black Women For Obama
70. Care2 Election Blog
71. Catzmaw’s Commentary — I mostly write about issues like the Iraq War, legal issues like habeas corpus and Guantanamo, and the like. Lately I’ve been writing about radiation therapy.
72. Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis
73. Center for New Words — The Center for New Words is dedicated to a simple mission: To use the power and creativity of words and ideas to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society.
74. ChangeServant — Big ideas Random thoughts Irregular musings
75. Chicago Moms Blog — The Chicago Moms blog is a collaborative group of moms writing about their lives in Chicago, Ill.
76. Chicken Hawk Express — Robin
77. Choose or Lose
78. Citizen Against Lies
79. Chronicles of Dissent — Fighting back against the erosion of privacy and civil liberties in post-9/11 America.
80. Citizen Jane Politics
81. Code Neon Blue!
82. Coleen Rowley — Huffington Post
83. Completely Unnecessary
84. Confessions of a Closet Republican
85. Connie Talk
86. Conservatism With Heart
87. Conservative Ally
88. Conservative Belle
89. Conservative Amazons — Conservative Amazons is written by a group of college-age conservative women who say that liberal feminism doesn’t tell their side of the story.
90. Conservative Girls Are Hot
91. Conservative Politics Today
92. Cool Crys Chronicles
93. Cooper and Emily — BlogHer Acts
94. Cooper at Wonderland or Not
95. Cosmo and Me
96. Country Dawn
97. Cynthia’s Interests — My blog is eclectic. I talk about everything from politics, to religion, to education and heath. I`m honest, yet I`m not always politically correct. My views are strictly told from an African American woman`s perspective.
98. Dana Tuszke — Political Contributing Editor for BlogHer
99. DC Metro Moms — The politics of parenting.
100. Dear Kitty, Some Blog

Help celebrate women political bloggers. If you do a post on our list of over 500 women blogging about politics, leave me a link in comments…I’ll be mentioning these posts as friends of The Political Voices of Women in a future post.

Calling All Women Political Bloggers!

The Political Voices of Women started out as a list of 100 Women Political Bloggers. Today, the list has over 400. Well, 497 to be exact, and we are much more than just a list now. We have 10 contributing editors, a community of almost 70 women, and opportunities for all women bloggers to express their political opinions as guest bloggers.

We are just shy of 500 women political bloggers. It’s my hope to reach 500 by the end of this weekend. And, you can help. I’m hoping to celebrate by publishing the list (100 blogs at a time) each day next week. Help us reach the goal of 500.

Are you a woman who blogs about politics?

Are you on the list?

Do you know a woman blogger who should be on the list?

We just need three more women political bloggers to hit the 500 mark!

So…Check the list, and if someone is missing, please give me their link here in comments.

Hi everyone…I’m not feeling very well today. So I’m giving the blog up to the readers today (and maybe tomorrow too).

I am putting up the RSS Feed to the Blog Posts at our Political Voices of Women Community.

*The first comment on this post is the rolling RSS Feed Widget.

Any member of the community can post here (if you are not already a member, it’s very easy to become one).

Consider this an OPEN THREAD DAY. Feel free to put posts, news, and opinions in comments too.

Women Political Bloggers: Are You On The List? If not…go here to have your political blog added.

I am pleased to announce that our list of women blogging on politics, has today reached over 300. When I started the list only a few weeks ago I had 100 blogs, and now thanks to so much participation by other women bloggers, we now have 316 women political bloggers on the list.

I would like to take this time to thank some of the many bloggers who have helped grow and promote The Political Voices of Women. Now, in no particular order…

• Today, Dee from Conservatism With Heart not only promoted the blog and our list, but used her post to send me over 25 links of blogs that were not yet on the list…Single-handedly bringing our list to over 300. Thank you Dee. Dee also posts at Grizzly Groundswell.

• Earlier in the week I was honored to be mentioned in an article at The Huffington Post…How cool is that? I did a post about it here, and this is the link to the article by Carol Jenkins.

• Jill Miller of Writes Like She Talks, did a very kind post supporting the list here. Thanks Jill.

• Faye Anderson of Anderson@Large, not only did a nice post promoting the list, but she was also my very first guest blogger at The Political Voices of Women. Thanks Faye.

• And since Faye’s guest post, I have also been lucky enough to have many other women contribute as guest bloggers…

Robin Gerber did a guest post here.

Sue from Nailing Jello to the Wall has done two guest posts…here and here.

Olivia Morgan from Women For Obama did a guest post here.

Sarah at One Mom’s View did a guest post here.

Heather Johnson from Moms4Mitt did a guest post here.

and our most recent guest post is by Julie at Moms Speak Up, and that post is here. Julie also promoted the site here. Thanks Julie.

Thank you to all of these wonderful women blogging on politics.

• Yankee Cowgirl also did a post promoting our list.

• Jenn from Ft. Hard Knox just did a very nice post here.

• Sandy from Around Des Moines just posted about the site, and she also joined our new community and even put a post up there too. Thanks so much Sandy.

• Deborah from Girl With Pen mentioned the site here.

• Amy from Georgia Women Vote did a nice post here.

• Mixter’s Mix, Modern English, sairy, Pondering Penguin, Mauigirl’s Meanderings, and opit, all have The Political Voices of Women in it’s blogroll. Thanks.

Thanks to all of these women (and the one man “opit“), for helping to make The Political Voices of Women the “go to” place for women bloggers, and people who want to know what they’re thinking.

I’m sure that I’ve missed many (and for that I’m sorry), so if you have done a post or added me to your blogroll please leave me a link in comments…And the next time I do a thank-you post, I will be sure to include you.

*I hope you will also consider joining our Political Voices of Women Community.

Hi everyone. I decided to take some time today, and actually write my “about the blog” page for The Political Voices of Women.

So here goes…

This is a blog answering the question, “Where are all the women political bloggers?” Well, the answer is…They are here.

It began simply as my response to a New York Times article on the lack of women political bloggers. Rather than comment on this article, I decided to see for myself.

What started as a list of 100 women bloggers, grew to 200. And then I decided to take a leap of faith and start a blog as a spin-off to the list. Now the blog and the list have taken on a life of their own, and each day they are growing and changing, mostly due to contributions of other women bloggers.

Women will play a powerful role in this upcoming election, and people (as well as the MSM and political campaigns) are finally recognizing that. For this reason, I believe that our [blogging] voices will begin to be heard and taken more seriously than ever before. I also hope that many more women will begin to use “the power of the political blog”, and join in on this unfolding phenomena. Women can (and I believe will) change the face of politics…And not just single women, or soccer moms…I’m talking about, the “collective voice” of all women…and that includes you too.

There are not that many places (if any) on the net, where women can be exposed to all sides of the issues (conservative, liberal, and everything in between) and also feel comfortable voicing their opinions…But, it’s my hope that this blog and it’s community will end up being that place.

I don’t want this site to be “defined” by one or another political affiliation or opinion…I’m hoping it will be defined by the women. My hope is that women of all political positions will come here to post their opinions, report on the latest political news, and initiate conversation. Basically, having our “collective” voices heard…and gaining respect in what “seems to be” a male dominated arena. Maybe even showing the guys a thing or two about how it “should” be done.

So there you have it…I guess it’s a kind of mission statement for this blog. I hope you will also take it as an invitation to join in on the conversation here. Welcome.