Feministing

Feministing
250p
Type of site
Blog
Created byJessica Valenti, Vanessa Valenti
EditorMaya Dusenbery (Executive Director for Editorial)
URLfeministing.com
RegistrationOptional
Launched2004
Current statusNot active

Feministing.com was a feminist blog founded in 2004 by sisters Jessica and Vanessa Valenti.[1] It had 1.2 million unique monthly visitors at its peak. The blog helped to popularize the term slut-shaming according to its directors Lori Adelman and Maya Dusenbery. Towards the end of 2019 it was announced that the blog's shutdown was planned for the following weeks.[2] The blog's final post was published in December 2019.[3]

  1. ^ Jos Truitt (13 April 2016). "Happy 12th Birthday To Us!". Feministing. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ^ Goldberg, Emma (8 December 2019). "A Farewell to Feministing and the Heyday of Feminist Blogging". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "(B)logging Off: Feministing Forever". Feministing. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2021.