Girls team

Girls team
	Weblog
languages	German
operator	Girls team e. V.
Registration	No
On-line	2007
https://maedchenmannschaft.net/

Die Mädchenmannschaft (MM) is a German-language feminist blog by the Mädchenmannschaft e. V., which has been reporting on politics , media , advertising and gender-sensitive projects since 2007 .

Creation and concept

The blog was founded in November 2007 by Barbara Streidl , Susanne Klingner and Meredith Haaf as a joint project. According to the authors, it was influenced by the English-language weblog feministing.com. The idea arose from her publication We Alpha Girls .

The girls' team reports in various sections on current gender-relevant topics from politics and society . Dossiers and series as well as podcasts are also published on various topics such as feminist literature, activism, sexuality, the body and history.

In addition to the blog, the girls' team also operates channels on social media. In 2009 the owners of the blog founded the "Girls On Web Society" in order to better network women on the Internet .

In 2010 the association Mädchenmannschaft e. V. to support the work on the blog itself and the political work of its authors. The association has been involved in various projects over the years and has cooperated with the Barcamp Frauen or the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Authors

10 regular authors are currently writing for the blog: the political scientist and sociologist Magda Albrecht , the sociologist Nadia Shehadeh , Nadine Lantzsch , Sabine Mohamed , accalmie, Anna-Sarah Hennig , Charlott Schönwetter , Hannah C. Rosenblatt , Julia Roßhart and Sharon Dodua Otoo .

Current and former blog authors published articles on women's political and feminist topics in Spiegel Online , Tagesspiegel and the weekly newspaper der Freitag .

The founding members Barbara Streidl, Meredith Haaf and Susanne Klingner as well as Katrin Rönicke , Helga Hansen, Jennifer Litters, Adele, Mutti Erna, Nicole Selmer, Thomas Richter, Werner Graf and Hannah Wettig left the project between 2010 and 2012.

Nominations and Awards

Awards

2008 Deutsche Welle Blog Award for the best German-language weblog.

Nominations

2009 Grimme Online Award in the "Information" category
2009 alternative media award

Media reception

The girls' team appears in the media primarily in the context of discussions on network culture and the participation of women in the blogging scene. The Süddeutsche Zeitung , for example, reported on the participation of the girls' team in the blogging conference re: publica as one of the few blogs run by women. In the taz , the weblog was described as an opinion leader in the field of women's politics and feminism and praised for its networking activities. The online magazines Broadband and Online Talk from Deutschlandradio presented the blog as a specialist opinion maker in the sense of cyber-feminism in the blogging scene.

Niklas Hofman wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that net feminism was being talked about as the “third wave” of the women's movement, but that there was still no clear definition of the term. He quotes Emily Nussbaum , who in a feature for The New Yorker had described the women-centered blogosphere as a young, self-confident feminism born on the Internet, and recognizes efforts in Germany to network towards a loose movement, "the blogs like" girls' team "and media how Missy Magazine came about".

The taz reported in 2012 that all of the founding members quit because the tone of voice had changed significantly: "The language is harsher, you blog about sexist shit, you throw yourself up". Susanne Klingner criticizes the fact that the new "girls' team" no longer wanted to work with straight men - a trademark of the old blogger troop. In addition, whiteness is now also a topic and ideas of supremacy by “white positioners” are criticized in relation to people of color . In another article in Jungle World , Hannah Wettig reported that she had been threatened with personal consequences because, as a white woman, she wanted to speak in a workshop about women in Arab revolts. Another member therefore left the editorial team of the blog.

Nadia Shehadeh responded to the allegations in her own blog in October 2012: She said that the majority of the dropouts had not been bloggers for the girls' team since 2011. Nadine Lantzsch also reacted in October 2012 to the taz interview, in which only former girls' team authors were interviewed. She explained that in one of the first phases of separation, the founding team had previously planned to found a new project in order to then shelve the entire girls' team blog, which was prevented by the remaining active members: "Now we're seeing an article in two of the founders are quoted and an MM blogger who left MM 1.5 years ago together with Barbara Streidl and Susanne Klingner The reasons for this are of course not mentioned, at least they only have indirect changes to the content of MM do. Because specifically it was about the realization of a new project. According to the request of the three who left the MM, this new project would have replaced the MM. At this point in time, the MM would no longer have existed. '"

literature

Meredith Haaf, Susanne Klingner, Barbara Streidl: We alpha girls: why feminism makes life more beautiful . Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-37313-0 .
Nadine Lantzsch, Leah Bretz: Queer_Feminism: Label & Reality of Life . Unrast , Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89771-123-5 (= transparent - gender jungle, volume 3).