I remember interviewing Anna Holmes who had started up

Jessabel and she talked about how with like not much time

Jessabel surpassed Gocker it's like parent in monthly traffic and so these feminist blogs were really making the case

for how much of an audience they had. on Lady Lai.

Lai.

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I've had a love.

This is un lady, I'm Kristen.

Y'all, as an elder millennial whose 20s were shaped by the feminist blogosphere,

you know, we're talking late auts early 2010s.

Last November's news that Jezebel was going out of business hit me like a ton of old tampons. In a press statement, the CEO of

Jezebel's parent company, a guy named Jim, explained that quote, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebels, end quote.

Of all the feminist publications that have shuttered in recent years,

Rookie Mag, the toast, the hairpin, the lily, the establishment,

broadly, Lenny Letter, feminists, bitch media.

The Jezebel announcement really sounded like a final nail

in some kind of feminist media- shaped coffin.

Or maybe I was being too myopic.

These spaces and the voices and ideas they circulated

were personally meaningful to me. And in a lot of ways, they are the reason I'm a

feminist podcaster and writer today. And listen, Jim, I'm sorry I apparently

built my career on an unsellable business model.

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