[rebelmouse-image 24749963 alt="jessica-amanda-marc" original_size="240x180" expand=1]Jessica Valenti has formally ended her time at Feministing. It's one of those moments when I get all sentimental, because it's kind of crazy to think of the journey we've all been on. I don't know how many of you know the whole history here, but when Feministing was started, I was still blogging at a small Blogger blog called Mouse Words, and there was no such thing as "feminist blogging". In fact, political blogging was still sort of a new thing; the word still connoted "web logging", and had a diary feel to it. The only two blogs that existed that were explicitly feminist blogs were Feministe, which only had Lauren Bruce at the time, and Feministing. And I suppose Mouse Words, but then as now, feminism was only part of a whole cloth liberal agenda I have with my writing. There was also Rox Populi, which is defunct now, and it was, like Mouse Words, straddling feminism and liberalism in general.
