Sady's Article on Feminist Blogging and Sisterhood

I've been reading Sady's piece on feminist blogging and sisterhood , and I see a lot of my own experiences except that I'm not completely sold on the feminist blog world's sense of community. This part struck me, primarily because it runs counter to my occasional perceptions of the feminist blogosphere's overall tenor:

"I had been interested in feminist theory as a college student, but it had always seemed like an academic concern (probably because I only encountered it within the academy). Feminist blogs gave me that theory in a voice that was urgent -- alive, contemporary, emotive. I wasn't merely discovering new subjects and ideas when I started to read these blogs; I was discovering a new form of writing."

I don't have an academic background in feminism -- at least not a formal one -- but twenty years of reading, writing, and thinking like a feminist, that world isn't exactly foreign to me. As for the casualness of blog writing, well, blog writing in general is that -- casual. In fact, I want my writing to be understood by women who've never experienced feminism in a classroom setting. A lot of the vocabulary still comes from the classroom and not enough emphasis is placed on lived experience -- or at least, the lived experience of a variety of women. I don't even like to talk about my lack of a traditional feminist or gender studies background if it means my words will be interpreted as less than sophisticated. Online feminism shouldn't exclusively be the domain of educated women fed up with the language of academia.