Comments on: Call For Submissions: "The Way We Were"

By: Abbie

Abbie — Sun, 27 May 2012 01:34:19 +0000

Love it! I actually just read a book about Emily Dickinson’s correspondence with her sister-in-law/best friend/possibly the love of her life, Susan Huntington Dickinson, and it got me thinking some about queers in the 19th century. I look forward to June!

By: alison

alison — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:39:06 +0000

oh my gosh I just wrote my article. Fingers crossed!

By: Abbey

Abbey — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:59:51 +0000

oOoOoo 2022… the “Herstofuture!”

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:43:22 +0000

riese i hope you know that in 10+ years, people will be writing about autostraddle (and you!) when they talk about queer herstory. you are writing it as it happens. i can’t wait to read that profile in 2022. <3

By: Abbey

Abbey — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:50:50 +0000

It’s obvs totes not serious.

By: A.

A. — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:40:48 +0000

I love etymology and I’m also a geek about it, but I think you’re missing the point — it’s supposed to be a pun of sorts. I don’t think people assume that History is called History because of “his”, simply that it’s often focused on cis straight mostly white males or something along the lines of that.

By: A.

A. — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:38:45 +0000

Do it! I don’t know if I’ll have enough time because of finals, but I’ll try. But if in the end I can’t do it, better someone who likes the subject and how big of a mindfuck (can we use that word here?) it is, than someone who just checked Wikipedia on the spot or something. Plus your hair is awesome.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:20:33 +0000

great etymological lesson, but there’s also a lot of significance behind the term ‘herstory’. It’s not meant to be linguistically sound, it’s meant to critique practices of historicizing, particularly which stories and voices are left out.

By: Sawyer

Sawyer — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:41:39 +0000

Oh, swing! I’ll go fire up my Word document and web browser then! But you should totally got working on it, A. – you’ll probably do a better job than I do!

By: Frances

Frances — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:42:56 +0000

Autostraddle: I love you, but can you NOT continue the linguistic nightmare that is “herstory”. The word history derives from “historia” in Greek meaning “”a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one’s inquiries” and from “historein” meaning to inquire. The root of “his” comes from German. Therefore, by changing the his to her, you completely lose the idea of history and it becomes nonsense.

I’m incredibly excited by the idea behind this, but you gotta drop the word herstory. It’s just icky.

By: giles

giles — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:19:23 +0000

Defo looking forward to this. I tried suuuper hard to have the subject of my NYC History paper revolve around lesbian culture in 1920s NYC, but alas the sources were limited and instead I focused on gay males. EXCITEMENT

By: riese

riese — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:34:18 +0000

i don’t think we have a policy about under-18s writing for us… maybe under-16s? because we have sexual content on here or whatever.