[shibamistress]

As a blogger, and a writer, I'd have SERIOUS issues with anyone using my writing in their writing project without first contacting me and asking permission. This is my work, and while I'm happy to have others read it, it is not out there for other people to use in their own work.

Depending on how much you quote, btw, just citing is not enough to get around plagiarism. More to the point, it's just rude not to contact the person and ask for permission to use their material. Fair use allows you to use some quotations for academic purposes, but you still need to be careful how much you quote.

That said, if you contact bloggers who have written about the issues you are writing about, they might be happy to be interviewed about their experiences, which would be a much better way to go.

eta: I would add that sometimes even for small quotes you need to get permission (and possibly pay a fee) first. I had to get permission to use part of a poem for a epigraph in my second (paper) book, and it cost me $50 to do so. Obviously that will be different with blogs, but what I'm saying is that copyright is pretty complex, actually, and you need to do some research and find out more, and make sure you're very careful using other people's work.