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[anotherusedpage]

Happy new year all!

I was planning on posting something about new year's resolutions, and I also still have something to post to the yuletide com, but I'm kinda floored for posting properly at the moment cos I've just heard that FWD/Feminists With Disabilities (http://www.disabledfeminists.comRead more... )

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[highfantastical]

I am so, so disappointed - saw last night, and couldn't believe it. I actually feel sort of angry. If the original writers and mods didn't want to continue or didn't have the spoons, surely FWD is big enough now to allow them to reach out to new maintainers? I find it really weird that they'd say their time was over & FWD isn't really needed anymore - the relevance, fierceness, and power of their posts is testament, IMO, to how much it is needed, now as much as ever. I think it will be a huge hole in the blogosphere, and I know I will miss a lot of great stuff that I previously was finding through them. I really just do not understand how they can think the need has come to an end. I mean, it HASN'T. In the UK at least, we are looking at a more ableist few years than any in recent times - portals like that are such a great rallying point, and just closing it down like that, without any consultation with readers or anything, feels like a betrayal of its project, to me

[anotherusedpage]

*nodnodnod* me too. Like, really. I guess I'm trying to keep seeing it as 'this was a postive thing and now the people that gave it to me are moving on to other things' because I don't want to be angry. But, I'll miss stuff too. There's lots of personal writing and so on out there, but nothing that rounds up so many perspectives in the same way.

I suspect that they feel less that the need has come to an end and more that the balance of success to spoons will be better acheived elsewhere, or under other circumstances. I'm trying really really hard not to feel it as a betrayal, cos they don't owe me anything and they did an amazing thing, y'know. But, it kinda hurts.

[highfantastical]

I don't feel that they owe me anything in a personal sense, but I do think that they - sort of owe the project, or the concept. That might not make any sense. I don't mean that I think any individual person needing or wanting to leave is at fault, but it's really confusing and upsetting that they'd not see any value (apparently) in the project continuing. How can anyone think it's not just as necessary now? (Rhetorical - obviously I don't mean to belabour you / try and make you answer.) There are so many keen commenters and readers, such a hub of community, and they haven't even tried any consultation or consideration of ways to keep a central portal running - they could easily have made an open post for discussion, or something. It seems like a really odd, arbitrary decision that actually strikes at the values I've always thought they held - community action, collaboration for the good, etc. I can't get over the oddness of it, really

[anotherusedpage]

*nodding along*

might have more coherent thoughts in the morning, but for now I'm just kinda... yeah, hearbroken and adrift about the whole thing and... and so glad of it's existance, and trying so hard to believe that all good things come to an end and that endings are ok and at the same time ARGH.

*clings to you*

[emily_shore]

Oh dear. I'm so sorry to hear this; it was a fantastic resource.