Ten New Voices - Number 4, 5, and 6
Tara Calishain… this makes three white women. I’m starting to feel like any lack of diversity here has little to do with gender at this point and more to do with nationality and ethnicity. I first noticed Tara on the CBO Blogroll, and today found her at the Rex Hammock Ten New Voices list. Rex just scrounged some names out of his own blogroll. Bzzzt… game over Rex, no points. I know where I can find two women who are not white. Unfortunately they are both Americans. While I scrounge up their links and add them to the blog roll, I’ll be thinking about where to find four non-white and hopefully nationally diverse males… looking for people who aren’t already in my blogroll. This is like a game, but a good game, with a serious intention.
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Regarding blogrolls, Shelley says they’re inherently wrong. I don’t agree. They’re like a community directory. If my little community includes only people who can make a decent bearnaise and most of them are white women, then that tells you something about my community. Nothing inherently wrong-o here. I suppose if I didn’t include links in my posts, then I might be more inclined to take some gentle direction in that regard.
La Shawn Barber… a pleasure to read her work. She seems to provide a balanced view of issues of current interest. Unique. I wonder if she writes in her PJs.
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Faye Anderson… I have a sense that Faye Anderson and I would have a lot to fight about, but her blog is what I imagine feature and editorial journalism should be: engaged, topical, objective (but not to a fault), and expressing the truth as the author sees it. I found Faye at the BloJoCred conference but haven’t before taken the time to look closely at her work.
