re:Cycling is one year old today! We began with a few warm-up posts in the summer of 2009, but we launched officially (and sent out a press release to damn near everyone in the feminist blogosphere) on September 15.
In that year, we’ve had more than 300 posts (this one is #307) in 50 categories, and 747 comments. Menstruation and advertising are the most used tags, and humor is a close third. The most visited posts are tagged endometriosis, vulva, or celebrities. An average visitor spends two minutes and forty-five seconds on a page. Approximately one-third of visitors to our site are return visitors.
But enough statistical analysis.
To celebrate our anniversary, we’re growing! Please welcome our two new bloggers, Heather Dillaway and David Linton. Heather Dillaway is associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University, but you probably know her as the author of re:Cycling guest posts on menopause research and Saturday Night Live‘s misogynist series about 1980s ESPN hosts. David Linton, professor of communication at Marymount Manhattan College, has also contributed numerous guest posts about menstruation and popular culture, including a post about why tampons remain associated with Prince Charles long after one ill-fated phone conversation and period-tracking apps for men.
I’m absolutely delighted that both will be contributing to re:Cycling on a regular basis, and I hope that you are, too.
