Friends of mine have recently launched Raise the Change, a website whose purpose I can wholeheartedly get behind:
Raise the Change is committed to respectful and open discussion about political and cultural topics that affect us as women, mothers and global citizens. Our worldview is liberal and progressive.
Although when I first saw just the name, I thought it was one of those “25c a day can send a girl to school for a year!” charities (get it? raising some change?), I quickly figured out it was a take on Ghandi’s famous dictum “You must be the change you want to see in the world”: as feminist women, we have the chance to raise the change we want to see in the world, which is exactly what I’m trying to do here at Raising My Boychick. They, however, propose to offer just what I lack: the dissemination, discussion, and dissection of the world-issues that create the stage on which we are trying to raise our own individual chicks. Same topics, different angle.
Plus, Bethany and Jessica rock my socks.
So go, check it out, join the forums, post some articles, bring some issues, hash them out. Help get the conversations started.
Oh, thanks for the plug!