What if No One's Watching?

Yep, another BlogHer post. But I do have a movie review to do later, so I promise I won't post all BlogHer content this week.

That being said, BlogHer Community Manager Denise suggests posting a pre-conference intro post to your blog, then cross-posting it to BlogHer, so we'll have some way to "get to know each other" before we all fall into a sea of 1,500 and are overwhelmed by business cards and names and faces. Good idea, says I. So here I go:

My name is Grace Mitchell. Online, you can mostly find me under the handle avengingophelia. It's an old handle and not one that particularly suits me anymore, but it's sort of too late to change it. I have two blogs: What if No One's Watching? is my personal blog, Heroine Content is the place where I co-blog feminist and anti-racist analysis of action media (mostly action movies).

Heroine Content is pretty self-explanatory. What if No One's Watching? is a bit trickier. I've been blogging there for nearly five years now. Mostly, it's my ramblings (several times a week) about whatever is currently interesting to me. Topics I blog about often include dogs and dog rescue, thrift shopping, crafting (particularly making bath products), makeup, clothes, movies, and books. My favorite things to write are generally reviews, so I do a lot of those. Thematically, I'm also kind of hung up on goal development and on the weirdness of growing up, so I touch on those pretty often as well. I'm a fairly self-indulgent, navel gazing, sometimes overly honest blogger, so you have to be able to handle all that to enjoy WINOW.

In my offline life, I live in Austin, Texas with my partner and our canine and feline crew. Said crew is currently made up of two extra large dogs, Leo and Ata, and three cats, Atticus, Esme, and Illy. We are moving to Northern Virginia at the end of the summer and are currently in house-selling hell. I am, by day, a technical writer and on the side a grant writer.

This year will be my second BlogHer conference. I missed last year, but did go to Chicago in 2007. Unfortunately, due to own completely wrong expectations of the conference and other stuff I had going on at the time, I didn't get nearly as much out of that experience as I should have. I don't plan to make that mistake again, and will be forcing myself out of my reserved shell this year.

Look for my business cards--they have a little girl leading a hippo on them--and for a tall woman with a Picasso dove tattoo. I'll be looking for you!