Shakesville Blog

Before I began writing this blog, I wanted to try to find some other blogs on the topic of woman empowerment. I wanted to see how they would format their posts and what stuff they would write about. Surprisingly it was harder to find blogs, especially blogs kept up to date, than you would think. When I stumbled across the blog titled Shakesville, I knew that I would like it.

This blog has seven contributors listed and also gets guest bloggers to write for them. The blog is updated very frequently and is described as "a progressive feminist blog about politics, culture, social justice, cuttings, and all that is in between." Recently though a woman named Melissa McEwan seems to be the only contributor posting.

The writer, Melissa McEwan, posts articles titled "We Resist: Day ___." She updates pretty frequently with the first two pages of the blog containing 3 of these posts. For example, on July 10, 2019, she posted an article titled "We Resist: Day 902," where she shared a daily thread of updates concerning Trump and the USA. She began with praising the US Women's National Soccer Team on their huge win and then moved to write that California has become the first state to give health care to some undocumented immigrants. I enjoyed this beginning as she showed that not only can you resist but you can also be proud of achievements or happy events in this country as well. After that, she began to bring up some more negative things happening in the current political world such as Trump's Human Rights Commission and more on some people who will not show up to testify on the Mueller case.

I enjoy this blog because the writers bring up their thoughts on current-day politics but also make sure to have some more fun posts such as food or even pictures of dogs. I like this format because, as I brought up before, only writing about negative things happening in politics all the time can be very harmful, so I like that McEwan spreads that stuff out! I want to use those types of strategies in my blog for the rest of the summer. I also like the repetition of the same style of posts, and I hope to incorporate that as well!