Glamour.com
Here's something new for womens' mags, not to mention the (overwhelmingly male) ranks of from-the-front-lines bloggers: Glamour has announced that its website will feature a blog by a female Air Force Captain stationed in Iraq. The blogger is thirty-one-year-old Kjirstin Bentson and her column, titled "Captain KJ: Adventures in Baghdad," will, according to a press release, offer readers an "uncensored" account of what it's like to be a female soldier stationed in the Iraqi capital (a role that apparently includes plenty of black eyeliner to go with your M16A2 Assault Rifle). No stranger to blogging - she maintained her own site on Wordpress before being tapped by Glamour - Bentson will offer day to day descriptions of her experiences in the center of Baghdad's International Zone, where evenings are marked by gunfire lightshows and sleep is butchered by circling helicopters. The launch comes on the heels of the magazine's co-sponsored "Women of Peace/Women in Conflict" luncheon on Feb. 21, which attracted a slew of boldfaced names including Sally Field, Jane Fonda and a primly-pantsuited Katie Holmes. No word yet on Bentson's politics or whether her posts will include any pro- or anti- war slant - though at the rate things are going, looks like she'll likely have plenty of fodder to tackle.
