There's something deeply shocking when the mother of a child who is only 14 chooses suicide. It feels worse than when any other parent does it and I don't know why, I probably need to sort that shit out.

Anyway, RIP #dooce

Yes! I found the same in my dissertation back in 2014: #Dooce, #mothers & #women #blogging about issues of their concern incl. #motherhood in the US, UK, Germany & Switzerland opened new spaces for women to show the personal IS political & needs to be discussed way more in the public sphere, but also sadly brought hate & abuse toward women bloggers who dared to speak out publicly about problems they defined as relevant or political.

#MothersDay #heatherarmstrong #blog
https://nyti.ms/450hMsz?smid=nytcore-android-share

"Already the early days of blogging are being forgotten, and the ability of the web to quietly erase history as sites fail and go offline means that those incredible, exciting, experimental days are being lost. But we shouldn’t forget those who forged the future of digital media, and Heather Armstrong was one of them. Let’s remember that — and her."

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/05/rip-dooce by @adders, found via @feedle #blogging #dooce

This article (DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry) is pernicious horseshit. (I will link the archive so I don't add a single click.)

If you don't know someone, haven't read their books, and never read their blog, maybe don't use a half-remembered review your partner wrote four years ago to make sweeping generalizations about what psychiatry did or didn't do for them.

I was *years* out of touch with Heather, so I can't speak for her here. But as someone who has also struggled with mental illness, this is gross, gross, axe-grindy, divorced-from-reality stuff.

#dooce

https://archive.is/eCgJu

A true pioneer. One of the people who paved the way for a whole generation to make a career online — and far too few people know her name.

RIP Dooce.

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/05/rip-dooce/?utm_campaign=first-share&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#dooce #bloggers #blogging

RIP Heather Armstrong, #Dooce Love and solace to her children. I’d go on occasional Dooce-reading jags, scrolling & laughing & gasping late into the night, er, morning.

Last fall we lost Julie Powell, of the #JulieJulia blog.

Both OG bloggers, amazing talents. Both so raw and real. Pioneers of new online genres, inspiring entire new swaths of work (parenting+lifestyle + influencer; food writing). They invented new genres and ways to work.

Bright torches, extinguished yet still shining on.

Look at me and my friend Heather being stupidly fucking serious in a HS favorites pic.

RIP, Heather. #dooce