creative revolutions by women
on February 14, 2008
Category: Feminism, Blogosphere
I find myself Black Looks, including all those who have contributed to this blog over the past 12 months especially Annie, Kym, Kameelah, I miss you all and Rethabile, is listed amongst a community of brilliant nominees for this award by A Creative Revolution- women who have never taken the easy road and for whom “Silence is not an option”. We all know how hard it is to continue blogging month after month when many times you feel like giving up then something happens and the rage sets in and you have to speak again. But for me, more than anything it has been the community of women of colour, never failing the their support and sense of sisterhood towards each other. Something that I have not felt from any other part of the blogosphere including my own. To name just a few: La Chola (BrownFemiPower); AngryBlackBitch; Racialious; My Private Casbah; abyss2hope: A rape survivor’s zigzag journey into the open and Questioning Transphobia;
Two blogs missing from the nominees is “Dark Daughter” and her blog “one tenacious baby mama” and if it was up to me she would be the winner of this and a bunch of other awards that she never gets nominated for CORRECTION: SHE IS AMONGST THE NOMINEES IN ANOTHER CATEGORY SO CHECK OUT HER BLOG - and my young sista friend, Kameelah Writes
Note: Voting starts on the 15th.
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Canadian F-Word Blog Awards
Blog Awards
Feminist Blogs
Women of Colour
NB: The South African blog awards are now up for nomination at: SA Blog Awards
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6 Comments so far
1. Prole
February 14th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Hello, thanks so much for posting about this! Just to let you know, one tenacious baby mama has been nominated for a bunch of F-word awards. She wasn’t eligible for the International category because she lives in Canada, but she has several other nominations including Best Canadian Feminist Blog.
Cheers!
2. Sokari
February 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Prole - thanks for the nomination and and glad Dark Daughter is up there after all - my fault for thinking she lives in the US!
3. Dave Lucas
February 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Sokari & Friends: Happy Valentines Day!
4. darkdaughta
February 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Hey Sokari,
Thanks for the nod. I told them I wanted to be nominated in the international category so I could play with the amerikkkan bloggers on a flattened playing field. It would have been…satisfying.
I’m barbadian by birth, Prole. I live in kkkanada. None of us are kkkanadian. Only the Native people belong there by land right.
Sokari,
From where you’re sitting in blogland, thanks for the nod. Much appreciated.
5. kameelah
February 15th, 2008 at 3:54 am
thanks sokari!!!!
6. Sokari
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
Thanks to everyone who voted for me here which led to me being the runner up - cheers!