invitation

The BlogHer 2006 online registration system is live, as Elisa Camahort has just announced at the BlogHer website.

If you mised it last year, the BlogHer conference is a gathering of women to meet and debate their favorite blogging interests. Men are invited as well!

Here is a snippet from the announcement, please visit the BlogHer site for further details about the mission and ethos of BlogHer:

We are a two-day conference, and we are allowing people to register for individual days or both days, as they so choose. Remember, Day One is techie and hands on. Day Two is culture, conversation and community...

The organizers are calling for speaker proposals, so now's your chance if you're interested in presenting a topic for debate or a presentation.

(Okay, Media Girl - you've had fair warning, no excuse not to attend now... :D ;))

Hope to see you all there!

Related links:

Save These Dates: BlogHer '06
Hotel Room update: Get 'em while they're hot.
Day One Schedule and Call for Speakers (and the Clarification)
BlogHer Vission, Mission and Position Statement

Guys can answer this too b/c I'm writing an article for Bitch and Moan for the Oct 30th issue on menstruation. It's early yet, so I'm researching and getting a focus.

My point: share some of your experiences/fears/feelings/poems, whatever about your or your sig O's periods. Do you have sex during? How was your first and you last. how regular are you? What can you tell about yourself re: PMS or cramps or your emotional well beeing? What sort of blood control do you use? Tell me anything and everything.

I will use your *screen name* unless you prefer something else. I've the got the vagina monologues, but I want some 1st person stories of my own.

So what you got to say?

What have the Democrats done for us lately? Not a damned thing. Just as when the women who would not compromise their demand for sufferage had to strike out on their own and stand in solidarity, so must we now.

They may or may not be able to win an election with us - I don't believe they can as long as the machines are fixed - but we know with absolute certainty that they cannot win without us.

I'm tired of being taken for granted. The Women bloggers need to get together now and stand in solidarity against the rampant sexism in our own party. How can we expect the Republicans to change when we tolerate hate from our brothers on the Left?

The big boys need to learn that they dismiss our rights at their peril. They have no power without us, so since they aren't willing to give us what we want anyway, I say abandon them and strike out on our own. It has worked before, and it will work again, just as soon as they realize 53% of the votes they've been relying on are walking out the door.

There can be no compromise on Choice - my uterus is not a bargaining chip, and I am not chattel. We're equal or we're not. We aren't, so we need to split off on our own.

Because of commitments I have to develop some other websites, I probably will not be blogging much over the coming week or so (though at times I may not be able to help myself).

Perhaps some of the other women here will take the opportunity to fill in with some lively discussion. (Consider that an invitation, girls!)

Meanwhile I'll be peeking in now and then.