At Wiscon this year, Victor Raymond passed around copies of a letter the nascent Carl Brandon Society wrote to the Wiscon ConCom... on May 27, 1999 ( Read more... )

I have spent most of the past year thinking about knowledge, about who gets to know what, about who gets to disseminate that knowledge, about whom people think the knowledge is being disseminated to. It is a mixture of my experiences of year one of grad school, along with a constant debate with myself on the who, what and why of my own blog ( Read more... )

Yay IBARW for making me post, despite it being months late?

Although I had a very positive Wiscon experience this year, it was amidst a lot of fail. I heard and saw Black and South Asian women being mistaken for other Black and South Asian women, fish bowl ogling, and a lot of reports of people asking POC to be their special POC friends ("I have ( Read more... )

For the IBARW review books by POC challenge! Also, Color Online is running a Color Me Brown book challenge for August ( Read more... )

For 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2.

IBARW collects links to participating posts during the week; we try to get posts from people who blog about racism all year round and from people who habitually blog about other topics. As with
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• Help send Verb Noire to WorldCon:
  Verb Noire needs to raise some cash to defray the expenses of WorldCon. We thought we could bridge the gap out of pocket, but money is tight and my kid's face is expensive. So, we're hoping book sales, merch sales, and anything else you guys want to suggest can make up the difference. We're already putting together ( Read more... )

This is a post for Intl. Blog Against Racism Week.

My terms, definitions, and disclaimersI've been struggling with this issue for a while, and I wanted to see how other POC were dealing with it ( Read more... )

This is a post for Intl. Blog Against Racism Week.

My terms, definitions, and disclaimers.

50books_poc is a community for people trying to read 50 books by POC in a year, be it from IBARW to IBARW or a calendar year. I had half-heartedly committed to it when it was announced during IBARW last year, but upon doing my 2007 book write up, clearly I needed to ( Read more... )

keilexandra's post reminded me of a rant I've had brewing. (On a side note, this post isn't meant to argue with hers, as I completely agree with her post. Like yeloson says, "Where you stand with intersectionality is really about what you're looking for-are you looking for social justice for all of us? Or are you just looking for someone to pull their foot off your ( Read more... )

Sorry to all the people who are seeing this a billion times!

This year's IBARW will take place between August 4 through August 10 (although please let me know if the dates conflict with important holidays). The theme (completely optional) is "Intersectionality," as in, the intersections of various oppressions (ex. racism + sexism, racism + ablism ( Read more... )