Most of these sites were beloved exactly for that same dual sense of security and inclusion members loved — and when that sense was lost, from time or toxicity or something else, the woman who made them moved on to another new place.
For The Hairpin, Julia Carpenter writes about the community spaces women have carved for themselves on the Internet since its early days.
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