Vanessa Valenti on How a Lack of Profit United a Young Feminist Blog Network
It’s 2004 and Vanessa Valenti and her sister Jessica Valenti turn to the Internet in an effort to expand the conversations around feminism they’d been having with each other. Problem is, there’s seemingly nothing for young feminists: no blogs, no forums, no speck of an online community anywhere.
And in that fight-or-flight moment, they decide to start their own. As the site celebrates its 10th year, Feministing.com founder Vanessa Valenti recalls what it was like in the early days, especially as other sites for young feminists came on the scene:
I definitely never saw them as competition.
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