Five Blogs That Make Me Think
Oh, my! I am awash with blushy pride, for the fine folk of The Hathor Legacy have awarded Inside Out a Thinking Blogger Award!
The deal with Thinking Blogger Awards is as follows:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are five blogs that make me think:
Digital Femme is the blog of Cheryl Lynn, a brilliant comics creator and critic, and founder of The Ormes Society. Her writing is a constant challenge to the complacency of the comics community and feminist blogosphere, particularly regarding women of color in comics.
Polite Dissent is one of the best-kept–and one of the flat-out best–secrets of the comics blogosphere. Its creator, Scott, is a doctor who writes marvelous reviews of the medicine–and psuedo-medicine–in comics, punctuated by fascinating and accessible forays into real-life medicine.
Badgerbag is the blog of the marvelous Liz Henry, who describes it far better than I could: “Badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books is my general interest blog. Its baroque digressions attempt to capture my reality in the tradition of complex personal memoir. I write about everything interesting that comes my way. Books, computing, social media, other blogs, poetry, literary translation, family, parenting, my own memories, relationships, news, and especially my reflections on gender, feminism, race, class, and intercultural politics.” Liz is also Oracle to the Girl-Wonder/WisCon Birds of Prey and is responsible for introducing me to disability activism.
She’s Such a Geek is the companion blog to a book of the same name, and like the book, it’s all about women in traditionally geeky fields: hackers, programmers, comics creators, and other such folk.
PostmodernBarney is a snarky, smart comics blog with a focus on queer and feminist issues and a lot of really damn sharp general criticism.
If you’ve noticed my recent trend of my linking to other blogs rather than, y’know, writing my own, you’re kind of right. I’ve been hit with a slew of positive but time-consuming real-life stuff–visits from family, dear friends moving into the area, etc.–at the same time that work has exploded into (more) chaos (than usual) in anticipation of San Diego Comic Con (Yes, I’ll be there. PM me or post in the SDCC thread if you want to meet up!). So, I’m leaning on links a bit more than usual at the moment. Next week, I’ll have a proper column, I promise–and the week after that, you’ll get a con write-up, along with a marvelous guest column from Katherine Keller of Sequential Tart.
In the meantime, you can discuss this column here. Seeya in San Diego!
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