Women’s History Month: Pam Spaulding
In honor of Women’s History Month 2011, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st - March 31st, 2011.
Pam Spaulding: Blogger, political activist
Pam Spaulding is the editor and publisher of Pam’s House Blend (pamshouseblend.com), honored as “Best LGBT Blog” in the 2005 and 2006 Weblog Awards. The Blend, which averages 120,000 visitors a month, was launched in July 2004 as a personal response to the anti-gay state of the political landscape.
A regular contributor to the progressive blog Pandagon.net, Pam has also guest posted/contributed to Americablog, Firedoglake, The Rude Pundit, OurChart.com, The Bilerico Project, Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory on Salon, and written for The Independent Weekly.
With roots in North Carolina and New York City, Pam considers herself to have “dual citizenship” status as a Southerner and a Yankee — and brings that perspective and voice to her blog, which focuses on current political events, LGBT and women’s rights, the influence of the far Right, and race relations.
Pam’s House Blend is ranked in the top 50 progressive political blogs. Michael Rogers, editor and publisher of gay blog PageOneQ.com: “Pam is certainly the most important lesbian blogger in America. She’s a lesbian in a gay blogging world that is overwhelmingly gay men. She’s a blogger as a woman in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world and she’s of color and the internet is so skewed to the privileged.” Mike Airhart of Ex Gay Watch says, “Thanks to efforts by bloggers such as Spaulding, XGW can spend less time analyzing the religious right and more time focusing on exgays.” — Selection from Pam’s official bio
Links: Personal site
Wikipedia page
Pam’s House Blend (main site)
Pam’s House Blend (Pam Spaulding’s entries only)
Twitter
Youtube
HuffPo bio/blog posts
FDL blog posts
Salon blog posts (guest blogging for Glenn Greenwald)
Salon Radio: Pam Spaulding on Rick Warren (radio interview with Glenn Greenwald)
Pandagon posts
The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived
Day Of Equality: Online Activism with Pam Spaulding
Pam Spaulding Calls For HRC’s Joe Solmonese To Resign Now
TNG TV: Queers You Should Know — Pam Spaulding
Pam’s House Blend: Employee’s blog wins praise from readers
Letter from Ricky Burnett, Sharon Hunt and Pam Spaulding regarding tribe’s federal recognition efforts (May 5, 2010)
#SSS: Pam Spaulding on LGBT Bloggers and the White House, Dr. Laura, Trans Law in TX and More
