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That’s probably the least weird title I have come up with for this. I have been in a strange, strange place since January, but especially since April, but especially since May, but especially since September, but ESPECIALLY since a certain set of incidents that occured in the ‘sphere a few days ago. Which is to say, my blogging may for a time go into that strange erratic place of stream of consciousness and pictures of David Tennant again. Or I may write a lot of introspective posts. Or I might start exclusively analysing cultural phenomena. Don’t panic.
Ahem.
I have much by way of exciting things to share with you!
I’m a contributor to the brand new blog FWD/Forward, taglined FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward. The contributors are an amazing, diverse, writery group of people and I am relishing being a part of this project. It is shaping up to be rather fantabulous – and as such you much promote it to all you meet! – and I will be off to coordinate a few posts for it when I’m done with this one. Suggestions, comments, guest posts: we take them all.
Over at the Radical Readers bookclub, October’s pick is bell hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Get reading and discussing! Our blog is here and our Goodreads group is here. I have been having some trouble obtaining a copy but will get there eventually! And I’d finished the previous month’s selections within days!
As another reminder, I’m on twitter as @challyzatb. It’s primarily locked for spam purposes, so feel free to add me.
I’ve also joined Tumblr here and Dreamwidth here. This is apparently what I do now.
Goodness me, that’s quite a lot in all, isn’t it?
I do not understand tumblr.
Give me a few months, though. Just two weeks ago I didn’t understand cell phones.
It’s not just you, tumblr is a very, very confusing platform. Very. And good on you for learning cell phones!
Hah, I still have no idea what the hell Tumblr is but I KINDA want one…in any case yay for you & doubly yay FWD! Blogroll’d and paying attention.
Tumblr is a different platform. I love it, but you basically have to view it as a kind of blend between its own integrated social networking platform and a blogging platform. You reblog things, you heart things, comments aren’t enabled by default. Make sure you follow people you want to read, and read on your dashboard – it becomes much easier that way!
I happen to adore your humor, so if you wanna just keep up with the random streams of consciousness, I’m fine with that.
Of course, I also adore David Tennant and your introspection and your cultural analyses. So, yea. Write anything. :D
(Confession: I still haven’t quite finished September’s book selection. :-/ Maybe if the selections were announced much more in advance, so we had more prep time? Or so I could spend a couple months reading one, and participate in at least an occasional month?)
Also, I’ve found some really nifty people who mostly stick to tumblr and don’t blog on other platforms (see, for instance, abbyjean up until now!) — because of that whole social networking aspect of it. Poke around the followers of people you know who have been at tumblr for awhile, you’ll find some pretty neat people :)
Thank you amandaw :).
Thanks Arwyn! (That’s a good idea, maybe we should have a reading list. Will discuss it.)
I don’t “get” tumblr at all. It seems to me to be the worst of both/all worlds – all the insularity of livejournal and the other journalling sites, and not as flexible as wordpress type blogging, and without even the ability for stoppers-by to make comments at all. I’ve made an account and surfed and fiddled and faddled but it just doesn’t seem to gel for me. I can’t figure out what it does that blogging and journalling sites don’t do, that makes up for the lack of comment threads.
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