Event Title

Lightning Round: Transform Your Life (Lose Weight! Grow Hair! Not) Through Academic Blogging

Location

Moakley Auditorium

Start Time

10-5-2018 1:50 PM

End Time

10-5-2018 3:00 PM

Description

Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is all well and good, but: They reach very few people—just academic specialists; Their format is constrained—few visuals and formally written; They aren’t accessible to most people because of paywalls; They are soooo last-millennium/century/decade!

But, what other options are there for academics with something important to say? For me, blogging has transformed my professional life. I write weekly for a group blog called Fit is a Feminist Issue, which has about 20,000 followers. We address issues of health, fitness, aging, body image, discrimination, access, etc. within a feminist framework and from an interdisciplinary perspective. I will talk about how blogging has opened up my intellectual world: I am free to write about new topics in a low-stakes environment. I have made connections with other scholars and been invited to do collaborative projects. And, I enjoy writing and thinking more than I ever have in my career.

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May 10th, 1:50 PM May 10th, 3:00 PM

Lightning Round: Transform Your Life (Lose Weight! Grow Hair! Not) Through Academic Blogging

Moakley Auditorium

Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is all well and good, but: They reach very few people—just academic specialists; Their format is constrained—few visuals and formally written; They aren’t accessible to most people because of paywalls; They are soooo last-millennium/century/decade!

But, what other options are there for academics with something important to say? For me, blogging has transformed my professional life. I write weekly for a group blog called Fit is a Feminist Issue, which has about 20,000 followers. We address issues of health, fitness, aging, body image, discrimination, access, etc. within a feminist framework and from an interdisciplinary perspective. I will talk about how blogging has opened up my intellectual world: I am free to write about new topics in a low-stakes environment. I have made connections with other scholars and been invited to do collaborative projects. And, I enjoy writing and thinking more than I ever have in my career.