WSS Featured Blogger: Trish Wilson of Trish Wilson's Blog

Name: Trish Wilson
Blog: Trish Wilson's Blog

How did you start blogging? Why do you keep at it?

I started my blog on New Year's Day 2002. I read about blogs in the newspapers and found, at first, mostly conservative blogs. I wanted to start my own to post the reams of material I get from family law-oriented mailing lists. I knew that there weren't other blogs that posted that kind of material. The first feminist blog I found was Alas, A Blog, and I found other progressive and feminist blogs from that site.

What’s the nicest recognition you’ve ever received from the media and/or the blogosphere?

I was quoted in the Chicago Tribune and The GadFlyer. I've also been nominated for several Koufax Web Log awards. I've written an article about women in the blogosphere for "off our backs." That article is due to be published soon in oob's "Women and Technology" issue.

Who is your audience? What is unique about your blog?

I have a feeling that most of my audience is not bloggers. My blog concentrates on family law and how it affects women. I post mostly about the worldwide harm caused by the fathers' rights movement. I've been critiquing the fathers' rights movement for nearly a decade.

Most frustrating aspect of blogging?

Time. There isn't enough of it. Spam drives me crazy. Plus, I don't think that women bloggers get enough attention and credit, despite there being just as many if not more female bloggers out there.

What’s the one point you’d like a reader to take away from your blog- the one thing for them to really “get”.

That the fathers' rights movement does not operate in the best interests of children, women, or fathers. Readers definitely get it. I know that men's and fathers' rights activists are threatened by my blog because of the nasty comments and e-mail they send me. I hit a nerve.

Quote: "The men's separatist movement's frightening. Separatism breeds feelings of superiority
and imbalance -- male bonding usually offers permission to regress."

--Carol Bly, ex-wife of Robert Bly, founder of the mythopoetic men's movement and author of "Iron John." Utne Reader, Nov.-Dec. 1989


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Trish Wilson
http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/
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