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BlogHer Voice of the Week: Gwenn Liberty Seemel on Small Strokes

8/23/10 7:53am by Elisa Camahort
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Gwenn Liberty Seemel

Every day on BlogHer.com and across the blogs in the network, and every year in many sessions at the BlogHer Conference, the conversation inevitably turns to who we are, who we want to be, who we ought to be and who we're perceived to be...and how those all align or conflict. For example, here's my eternal query: Can't I like cute shoes and political discourse...openly, even simultaneously?  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: The Not-Ever-Still Life

8/17/10 3:28pm by Lisa Stone
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Worried Child

Last week's BlogHer '10 conference reminded me that women are fixers, so many of us anyway. Have a problem? We're here for you -- we want to sit down together, listen, hold your hanky, your hand, your heart.  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: Layne of Taxi Gourmet

8/2/10 4:20am by Jory Des Jardins
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Berlin Taxis

Shows like Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations have given rise to gastrotourism and a strongly held belief that you haven't fully experienced a place until you've eaten with the locals. But what if you want to experience good local cuisine and 1) don't know any locals, and 2) don't have the cash or appetite to experiment?  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: crib chronicles

7/26/10 7:28am by Elisa Camahort
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Crying

Last week BlogHer featured a post on how to recognize the signs when someone is drowning in water. A wake-up call for many I've talked to (and for me) that we don't always know the signs. This week, we were completely drawn in as Bon from crib chronicles delved into the signs of an entirely different kind of drowning in her post "at the red light".  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: kdiddy.org

7/19/10 6:33am by Lisa Stone
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Yellow House

There's nothing like a temper tantrum and a good cry to help a woman tesseract across space and time. In The yellow house across the street, kdiddy opens as her five-year old self, giving her mother hell on a hot August evening. The issue at hand? Having to take a bath.  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: Chaotic Calm

7/12/10 7:55am by Jory Des Jardins
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Teen Mothers

As a debate over how--or whether--to educate children about birth control continues to simmer among parents, educators, religious leaders, our BlogHer Voice of the Week takes a storytelling approach to her argument for sex education.  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: Joy in This Journey

7/6/10 7:37am by Elisa Camahort
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This holiday weekend I got a little bit of what I suspect some of the rest of you did too: Talking to friends and family who just don't "get" blogging, let alone Twitter, Facebook and the like. Their questions go something like this: "Why?" "WHY?" And "who has the time?" And "who cares what anybody had for lunch?"  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: C.L. Minou of Tiger Beatdown

6/28/10 6:39am by Lisa Stone
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911 Emergency

There's an old truism about domestic violence that I've heard make the rounds of volunteers and victims alike: Want to be ignored? Yell "rape!" Want people to run to your rescue? Yell "fire!" All too often, women who reach out for help find themselves under attack for asking.  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: Justine van der Leun of Good. Food. Stories.

6/21/10 7:41am by Jory Des Jardins
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Pizza

Our BlogHer Voice of the Week, Justine van der Leun, guest-blogging on Good. Food. Stories., shares her story of culinary exploration in Italy in a post that takes a unique spin on a theme popularized in novels and memoirs like Eat Pray Love. But unlike other American heroines in expat memoirs who are freed of the constraints of their urban, tortured thinking by abandoning all semblance of their former lives (and inevitably falling in love), Justine's already in love; her decision to move to the Umbrian region of Italy is a matter of course in a deepening relationship.  Read more >

BlogHer Voice of the Week: 10% Fiction

6/14/10 4:22pm by Elisa Camahort
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Friends having coffee

Bloggers are storytellers. Sometimes they paint you a picture in fine detail, until you recognize every detail; you see it in your mind's eye. The context is clear; the subtext explained, and you know you've been there before yourself. Sometimes, though, you get just a rough sketch...no names named, no motivations unearthed and examined. And yet a great storyteller can still convince you you've been there before yourself, even without all the gory detail. That's exactly what Carla Delvex from 10% Fiction does in her post, the breakdown of: friendship, and it's why we've named her the BlogHer Voice of the Week.  Read more >