Category Archives: Link farms

Electronic Village's Top Ten Black Bloggers

The inaugural edition of Electronic Village’s Top Ten Black Bloggers is out, and — even though I’m retired from non-cartoon-or-baby-blogging — I wanted to quickly congratulate some of my favorite blogs that made the top ten. I was pleased to … Continue reading

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Open Thread

Use this thread for talking about whatever you want to talk about. Meanwhile, here’s four more or less arbitrarily chosen items: “Only one in seven Americans (15 percent) can correctly name John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States … Continue reading

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A couple of religion-related links. (Sort of.)

The American Prospect: How Fundamentalist Christian Morality Is Killing Africans Beatrice Were contracted HIV from her husband, a common occurrence in a region where women make up the majority of new infections and marriage is a primary risk factor. For … Continue reading

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The 16th Erase Racism Carnival!

Welcome to the 16th Erase Racism Carnival! Angry Black Woman: Ask the Angry Black Woman! ABW invites her readership to ask her anything about racism, and they do, in a comment thread that’s long and fascinating enough so you might … Continue reading

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The Erase Racism Carnival Will Be Here This Month!

[Bumped to the top by Amp!] The 16th Erase Racism Carnival will be taking place here on “Alas” this month! ((So why am I making this announcement after I’ve quit blogging? I volunteered to do this before I quit, you … Continue reading

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Link Farm & Open Thread #50

Please feel free to use the comments for any purpose, including posting links to your own stuff or others’ stuff. Carnivals Abyss2hope presents Carnival Against Sexual Violence 26 This series — run solely by Marcella — is one of the … Continue reading

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Bunch-O-Links (While the Amp's Away Editions Pt. 2)

River Vices, which is a blog about politics in my hometown, has a great post about the problem of letting religious zealots control government and media.  The post is called Evanjekylls, which is how many southern Ohioans say Evangelicals. I … Continue reading

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Just a couple of links

My friend Pip has a blog called Great Expectations. She’s only got a couple of posts up but she’s asking some really interesting questions: Are there white middle-class butches? If so, where are they? I found Judith/Jack Halberstam’s book, Female … Continue reading

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Send These Women To The Allied Media Conference!

Brownfemipower informs us that several WOC bloggers are raising money to attend this year’s Allied Media Conference (see BFP’s post for more details and links). If you’ve got a little to spare, and if you’re a fan of some of … Continue reading

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Link Farm & Open Thread #49

Here’s an open thread for discussing what you’d like, including links to your own stuff if you feel like putting those up. This is kind of an odd one, because I started it weeks ago, then got tired of working … Continue reading

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