In January, 2006, Ann Bartow launched this blog as an exercise in community. In her inaugural post, Welcome to the “Feminist Law Professors” Blog, Professor Bartow stated the site’s simple aim:
The overarching goal of this blog is to build a stronger feminist law prof community across scholarly subject areas. … Feel free to mention this blog to friends and colleagues who might also like to be listed. Hopefully the blog will have a nice ethos of inclusivity.
Now, almost nineteen years later, the time has come to say farewell to this blog. The blog served its purposes, and now conversations have moved elsewhere, both digitally and in real life. Feminist law professors are organizing, gathering, and building community in lots of different ways beyond traditional blogs, too.
For now, we’ll keep the site up as an archive of past posts.
I am thankful for the many professional and personal connections and enrichment that this blog has facilitated. We’ve had so many wonderful contributors over the years.
In this blog’s final post, Ann Bartow deserves special mention. For her vision, leadership, and friendship, I am deeply grateful and changed.
I’ll still be blogging at The Faculty Lounge. And there’s the terrific Gender and the Law blog, maintained by Tracy Thomas (Akron) and Jamie Abrams (American).
Equality is a choice. Let’s keep making it.
Bridget Crawford
