Down Under Feminists Carnival
at Hoyden About Town
at In A Strange Land
at Audrey and the Bad Apples
at Blue Milk
Hell On Hairy Legs
Penguin Unearthed
Ideologically Impure
Stephiepenguin
The Hand Mirror.
Ideologically Impure.
Theme: Fighting the power/
subverting the dominant paradigm.
WhyI’mbitter’s Weblog.
Chally at Zero At The Bone.
Demelza at SAHM Feminist.
anjum rahman at Kiwi Stargazer.
lauredhel at Hoyden About Town.
This monthly carnival, with submissions hosted at blogcarnival.com, is open to all feminist bloggers in Australia and New Zealand. Showcase your own posts or those of others.
HOW?
WHEN?
The deadline is the second of each month for posts in the previous month. Each host should aim to get carnival up somewhere around the fifth of the month. (This is a little flexible in emergencies!)
WHAT?
Submissions of all types are welcome: long thinky pieces, quick hits, images, vlogs, whatever you’re writing. However, images, podcasts, and vlogs should be accessible to all users, with descriptions and/or transcripts provided.
All flavours of feminism are welcome; however, the host has the final say on what they wish to publish. New bloggers and established bloggers are all welcome – participating in a carnival is a great way to join in the community. Formed ideas and unformed ones are all fine. All posts must be from Australian or New Zealander bloggers, and must be feminism-related (including intersectionality) and/or on feminist blogs. Submit your own posts, and those of others. Please don’t be shy – submit, submit, submit.
If you’d like to write something but don’t have a blog and don’t want one, send it through and we’ll consider posting it as a guest post. But blogs are quick, easy, and free, so why not get one of your own? Check out wordpress.com, or the journalling sites dreamwidth.org or livejournal.com if you’d like a private/friends-locking feature for more personal posts.
THEMES
There is a default set of categories, but things overlap, and often a specific category or event or two will dominate in a month. Hosts are welcome to rearrange, add, and subtract the categories for their carnival however they wish.
Hosts may also set an optional theme for the month.
WHAT NEXT?
1. Mark your calendar with a repeat and set an alert, sometime in the last week of each month, to submit some posts.
2. Spread the word amongst your feminist networks. Please include a link to this page and to the submission form.
3. Consider offering to host an edition of the carnival anytime down the track. It’s great fun, but it does take a bit of work and commitment, so please factor that in. If you’re interested in hosting, please feel free to comment here, but also email me, so I have your contact details and can keep track more readily.
Future Editions
Twenty-Second Edition: Planned for 5th March, 2010: Fuckpoliteness at Fuckpoliteness Submissions to kirstinsteward at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Third Edition: Planned for 5th April, 2010: Bri (scarlett-heartt) at Fat Lot of Good Optional theme: Size Acceptance. Submissions to scarlettheartt at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Fourth Edition: Planned for 5th May, 2010: Frankie PhD at PhD Research Blog. Optional theme: Community. Submissions to franceshaw at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Fifth Edition: Planned for 5th June, 2010: Shinynewcoin at a shiny new coin Submissions to shinynewcoin at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Sixth Edition: Planned for 5th July, 2010: Rachel Hills at Rachel Hills’ tumblr Submissions to rachel.hills at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Seventh Edition: Planned for 5th August, 2010: Deborah at In A Strange Land. Submissions to dfr141 at hotmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
Twenty-Eighth Edition: Planned for 5th September, 2010: caitlinate at The Dawn Chorus. Submissions to caitlin.ate at gmail dot com for those who can’t access blogcarnival.
There is a bit of a list of things to do when hosting.
- Firstly, make a note of when you’re hosting, and be sure to arrange your schedule appropriately. The work will primarily be in days 3-5 of the month, collating the submissions and putting them all into a post.
- Register at blogcarnival.com, using the email address you’ve given Lauredhel for the carnival submissions.
- Consider an optional theme. Post explaining the theme, and invite people to post on this theme during the catchment month of your carnival.
- Post at the start of the catchment month and near the end (and whenever else you like) to remind people to submit their posts. Please include a link to this page, the carnival logo, a link to the blogcarnival submission page, and an email address for people who can’t access the blogcarnival captcha. Spread the word about the carnival through your networks, through twitter, etc.
- On the 3rd or 4th of the month, when submission deadline has passed, log in to blogcarnival.com and go to the Instacarnival page. Clear out all the spam submissions – there will be quite a few – and check that the others are from Aus/NZ bloggers. Check content; generally, we post most or all appropriate submissions, but if there is something you’re just not willing to link to, you’re not obliged to include it.
- Collate the carnival, however you like. You’ll likely need to fiddle with categories, add your own, etc. Use whatever organisational scheme you like!
- You will need to edit the Instacarnival quite a bit, even if you’re going for a fairly minimalist carnival. In particular, please delete the submitter names – the focus should be on the authors and their writing.
- Images from the posts can dress up the carnival nicely – add alt tags and descriptions for accessibility, please. Consider adding trigger warnings to links if the content may be particularly disturbing.
- Put the carnival logo at the top of your carnival post, linking to this page.
- Put your carnival up around the 5th of the month, notify Lauredhel of the link, and spread the word!
- Consider also committing to promoting and submitting for future carnivals, to spread the workload around a little and improve the range of the carnivals.
