Jezebel Helped Me Find My Voice. Its Closure Is the End of an Era

glamour.com:

left me feeling unexpectedly heartbroken. Unexpectedly because this is hardly the first beloved, groundbreaking feminist publication to suddenly close up shop.

I had no hand in creating the site. I never even worked there (not that I never applied). The only part I played in Jezebel’s history was in the comments, where I was a minor but devoted participant.The impact that Jezebel had on me, however, was monumental.

In many ways, I owe my career to that website (a mixed blessing to be sure, and hardly a unique experience). More importantly, it permanently influenced the way I think, argue, craft a joke, and even the way I vote, for all of which I will be eternally grateful.I started reading Jezebel back in its early days, when I was in college and still in the beginning stages of my conservative deprogramming.

It may come as a shock to anyone who met me after 2009 or so, but I was once staunchly right wing, and there was no cause that got me more fired up than . (I know, I know.