Liz of Ein Buch Muss die Axt Sein

After what feels like f-o-r-e-v-e-r, I am pleased to introduce to you today Liz and her beautiful literary blog Ein Buch muss die Axt sein. Follow the jump to find out what Liz does for a living, why she’s fed up with the German feuilleton, and what good advice she has for fellow female bloggers…  [...]

Anne Roth

If it weren’t for Anne Roth of annalist, perhaps there would be no GIRLS CAN BLOG today. It was Anne who, a little over a year ago, initiated a discussion on the invisibility of female bloggers: Where and who were they? Why would mainstream media only ever refer to our male colleagues? Inspired by Nadine [...]

Leah Leslie of Fuck Yeah, Book Arts

tumblr, a comparatively new blog software, has caused quite a stir in the blogosphere since its launch in 2007. Albeit the multi-media possibilities the platform offers, it has mainly been used to quickly and easily share images – often anonymously.  All the more happy I am to be able to introduce to you today Leah [...]

GCB Archives: April 2010

Source In April 2010, the second month GCB existed, I introduced the following bloggers:   Art historian Carola Muysers, journalist Kommander Kaufmann, gender studies expert Nadine Lantzsch, famous fashion photographer Mary Scherpe,  music journalist Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, and pro-blogger Nikola Richter, who recently wrote a piece for a large German daily on what she called ‘virtual workers’: [...]

Lynn Casper

After a long wait, please let me introduce to you today another achieved female blogger: Lynn Casper. Amongst other projects, Lynn produces Homoground, a weekly queer music podcast, and runs a personal tumblr called scantron. If you’d like to find out how blogging helps us strengthen our personalities, why dead blogs are part of the [...]

Simone Fust of Pferdemaedchen

Today, please meet Simone Fust of Pferdemaedchen – the first horseback riding blog for urban grown-ups I’ve come across. If you’d like to find out more about the pro’s and con’s of content management system Drupal, what blogging and making movies have in common, and what future plans Simone has for her blog, please follow [...]

Eva Ricarda Lautsch of Stadtpiratin

With her blog Stadtpiratin, Eva Ricarda Lautsch has also made it onto the list of nominees for the Mädchenmannschaft’s Female Blogger of the Year awards – congratulations! To vote for your personal favorite before 31 January, click on the little drawing to the right -> With a powerful mix of political, feminist and web issues, [...]