December 18, 2020 • Natalia Mora
When the semester started I knew that it would be my last year working on the GAM project through Haverford. All of the compañerxs were asked what we wanted to work on and when Chloe introduced us to her summer work on codifying the database I felt that working on that made the most sense. However, as the semester progressed and Chloe and I were working on the GAM entry on the Library page and there was a mention of the blog I knew that I wanted to bring the blog “back”.
I’d only worked on the old blog once or twice during the two years we had used it but in the time since we had often discussed putting up more content, but that’s as far as we ever got.
In working on bringing the blog back I noticed that the old site didn’t feel inviting, instead it felt rather clinical. I debated whether I wanted to continue using the old Jekyll site but after browsing around and being confused I decided to move towards a WordPress site. I copied all of the old material onto a Google Doc, one for the posts in English and another for the Spanish versions, and started designing the site itself. I reposted the old material, linked the GAM’s social media platforms, and started gathering material that we’d all said we would write in the past year.
While the blog isn’t anything super fancy, it feels like an upgrade. I feel like it’s easy to navigate and finally has more than six posts. In the next semester I hope that we will keep writing more updates about the work from the compañerxs as well as from the GAM. Additionally, I’d hope that once I graduate someone else will continue this work but we’ll have to wait and see.