Cue your best Wayne Campbell voice! Thanks very much to Venus of Venus Speaks, who gave me an Excellent Blog award:
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Sweetness!
The award was created by Shannon of The Mommy Project. The rules–I now award this honor to 10 other bloggers and their blogs. In almost-perfect alphabetical order:
1. Abnormaldiversity: Ettina advocates for the rights of all disabled people. She thinks deeply about a great many issues, and extends that thoughtfulness to those who disagree with her. I want to be just like her when I grow up.
2. The Angry Black Woman: I’ve only recently discovered the Angry Black Woman, but the little I’ve read is powerful and damned hilarious. My favorite posts so far are Thank You, White People and We can’t stop here! This is MULTIRACIAL country!
3. Ballastexistenz: Amanda Baggs has taught me a lot about disability, human rights and institutional abuse (in both the abuse that happens in institutions sense and the abuse that’s institutionally sanctioned sense). She has influenced an awful lot of my thinking. And she remembers the VIC-20! (Full disclosure: mine is three feet away from me, in the closet). GOTO. Now.
4. Chewing the Fat: Dave Hingsburger has worked in the disabilities field for around 30 years, and is disabled himself. He also posts something every single day. One of my favorite pieces is A Question Along the Way.
5. The Gimp Parade: Kay Olson started her blog as a place for “personal reviews of books and movies from a disability culture perspective.” Her analysis of disability-related media and news totally rocks.
6. Questioning Transphobia: I love how Lisa calls people on their crap. I love how she carefully dismantles their arguments while calling them on their crap. And I love how she challenges all my cissexual privileges.
7. Reimer Reason: I found Jodi’s blog through the last Disability Blog Carnival, and I’ve been reading through her archives like my hair’s on fire. (And, no, that simile didn’t make any sense to me, either).
8. Asperger Square 8: University student by day, autism advocate…also by day, Bev’s posts are always thought-provoking, funny, and beautifully written. Plus, her art is awesome.
9. Taking Steps: Little Light is a “crimefighting multiracial transsexual semiprofessional occultist and obsessive religion scholar.” Read I, colonist. And the seam of skin and scales. Because I said so.
10. Victoria’s Corner: Victoria Biggs is the author of Caged in Chaos: A Dyspraxic Guide to Breaking Free, which I’ve wanted to read for, like, ever. (I need to just call up the bookstore and have them order it for me). Please see Disability and Self-Portraiture. And also Hob-Nobbing at Number 11, just because I love finding other people with navigational disabilities who travel with companions. (Really! Why are you laughing?)
Thanks!!
Thank you, Tera! I am honored.
Why thankyou, thankyou very much!! I wish I knew how to put graphics on my blog. Great list, proud to be in it.
Thanks awfully! Glad to have you come by any time.
Well, lastcrazyhorn gave me that ward last week, and i haven’t yet had time to pick my 10 (maybe tonight), but Venus beat me to picking you, and you beat me to picking… about 6 of your picks. So now i’m going to have to think of some more who haven’t been picked already…
Also, have you changed the look of your blog, or does it just look odd because i’m using a different computer (with different default fonts and screen resolution) to usual?
Thank you much. 🙂
I’m not sure what to do with it yet, but I never got around to the blog award that Shiva passed to me months ago, either. 😦
Thanks for stopping by, everybody!
shiva:
have you changed the look of your blog, or does it just look odd because i’m using a different computer (with different default fonts and screen resolution) to usual?
I’d changed the look of my blog. Now after futzing with it, I realized the original one was best. Everything’s back to normal.