To mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month the History Carnival is inaugurating a special Women’s History Carnival for March 2011, for all blogs and blogging about the history of women, gender and feminism. We don’t know exactly what’s going to happen yet, but hopefully it’ll be a bit different from the usual History Carnivals:
There will be at least one Carnival post, but we’d like to do much more than that! We’ll publicise any great blogging or themed events we come across (or you tell us about) and generally do our best to encourage discussion and bang the drum for women’s history.
There’ll be further updates on Twitter throughout the month at @historycarnival and on this website (see the sidebar for more information). If you’d like to get involved, if you’re doing something for Women’s History Month that you’d like to publicise, or you have ideas for different events, you can leave a comment below, use the contact form, or just send a tweet @historycarnival.
Plus, you can follow the RSS feed for WHC announcements
The Carnival
There will be a Carnival posting at Early Modern Notes on about 9 March, just after International Women’s Day. Depending on the volume of nominations there will hopefully be a follow-up towards the end of March (venue t.b.c.) to round up the month’s activities. Although recent material may be given priority, anything written since March 2010 will be considered!
Blog conversations
Join in blogging for Women’s History Month! A few people we hope to hear from are listed below (more to follow)…
Jen Newby, Writing Women’s History (twitter)
Nell Darby, Cotswold History
Judith Weingarten, Zenobia: Empress of the East (twitter)
Penny Richards (twitter)
Knitting Clio (twitter)
Katrina Gulliver, Notes from the Field (twitter)
Another Damned Medievalist, Blogenspiel
Even in a little thing – Gill Polack and guest bloggers
Sharon Howard (twitter)
If you use Delicious, all you need to do to get a blog post listed in the feed in the sidebar is to tag it whc11.
I’ve just set up an WHC Event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192105180824164
I’ll invite my friends. Please share and invite as many as possible to ‘attend’.
Comment by judith weingarten — 2 March 2011 @ 5:08 pm
Thanks, Judith!
Comment by sharon — 2 March 2011 @ 8:06 pm
I have organized an inaugural Kidlit Celebrates Women’s History Month blogging event; 31 different children’s authors and bloggers are blogging this month about women’s history at http://kidlitwhm.blogspot.com. We have lots of fascinating posts coming up, plus a few already published! Please check it out and feel free to publicize on your own blogs, Twitter, etc. I’m also blogging about women’s history books for kids this month on my own blog, The Fourth Musketeer (http://fourthmusketeer.blogspot.com) so check that out too!
Comment by Margo Tanenbaum — 6 March 2011 @ 2:54 am
Tomorrow all Italian state-owned museums and cultural sites will allow women to enter free-of-charge! Visit ‘Where Would Art Be Without Women?’ http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_347365588.html
Comment by judith weingarten — 7 March 2011 @ 1:33 pm