by matttbastard
Sincere thanks to everyone who voted for yours truly in the Support Bro category. Is truly an honour. Also, heartfelt congrats to Antonia, Liss & Co. @ Shakesville, Beijing York, Renee @ Womanist Musings, Anti-Choice is Anti-Awesome and the rest of the winners and nominees for representin’ the f-word in ’09.
(D’ya think it’s too early for celebratory drinks?)
by matttbastard
Yeah, that’s right — Kev has declared it to be so, and, thus, it is so.
Here’s how it works:
Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to MammaDawg
Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!
Anyway, as per the rules, here’s my list (by no means exclusive) of 5 bloggers who kick my ass:
So there you have it — 5 (ahem) bloggers who kick ass. For more ass-kicking awesomeness please feel free to check out the RSS feeds at the side and the world famous bastard.logic blogroll.
by matttbastard
Enjoy the following celebration of tasty links from a variety of textural chefs:
Daisy’s Dead Air: Dead Air Church: May 4, 1970
Elle, PhD: On Double Standards and Women Paying for Men’s Actions
cripchick: the terp from helllll
Hoyden About Town: Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out
Wheelchair Dancer: BADD: Disabled People Aren’t Human, Are They?
Alas, a Blog: On Making Argument: Disability and Language, by Wheelchair Dancer
Feline Formal Shorts: “Special Needs”
Dawg’s Blog: West Bank apartheid: 2008
A Creative Revolution: Fable of the Evangelicals
mirabile dictu: Regime Change in America and Dion Silent on Bill C-484
Birth Pangs: Anti-VAW Expert: ‘Pregnant women don’t need C-484′
unrepentant old hippie: Another non-answer to the question
A Womyn’s Ecdysis: Surveying the Damage: Part I (h/t Thomas)
WOC PhD: Feminist Reading Tools for Recognizing and Countering Racism
The Apostate: Withdrawing From The Third Wave and On objectification and how bikinis can be radically feminist
A Secret Chord: A Ramble Through Objectification and Why Anti-Sex Work is Objectifying
Renegade Evolution: !@#!?!
Muslimah Media Watch: ‘Chay’ is for What?
Jack @ Feministe: Feminism without fragmentation
Orcinus: Things Americans don’t like to talk about
AngryBlackBitch: By request – Debunking Acceptable Blackness through the second coming of the Rev. Wright drama…
the regina mom: MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Bills 5 & 6 are anti-woman!
zunguzungu: Some Uneducated Speculations on “The African Novel” in Tanzania
Burning Words: Why I could never join the Labor Party and The end of the line
Scriptoids: Working hard for the money
Saying Nothing Charmingly: Now Taking Donations
by matttbastard
…someone else. Always a bridesmaid, etc.
*sob*
Anyway, congrats to all the winners, and many thanks to pale and Prole for putting so much time and effort into throwing this grand soiree. You goils kick ass. UPDATE: And a VERY huge thankee to April and JJ for the nominations, and to everyone who voted for bastard.logic/moi! MUCH love!!11 (heh, was so busy grooving to the choonz that I forgot my manners).
But enough blather from yours truly–the real party’s over @ ACR!
by matttbastard
47 Days into 2008 and I’ve yet to spread the <3. Mea culpa–shall post a more extensive link farm later this week.
Love always,
mb.
(Shakesville = WINville).
Natalia Antonova: Shorter danaseilhan: “Sexual assault and harrassment are bad things. Unless they happen to a mouthy stripper.”
A Secret Chord: Brazen Sex-Positivity (aka “Not Being an Asshole”)
Jon Swift: RAMs and SHEEP
A Creative Revolution: Honour.
Birth Pangs: “Unborn Victims” + political manipulation = Same Old Sexist Morality
Too Sense: McCain’s “Jew Counter”
A Woman’s Ecdysis: The State of Brownhood
Black Looks: Closing the gates on Black women in Britain
Automatic Preference: I Am Rude
AngryBlackBitch: Supercalafragilistic Fubardemocractus
ThePoliticalCat: Berkeley Protests at Marine Recruiting Center: REFOCUS
La Chola: Links and more
The Gimp Parade: Cop dumps quadriplegic man out of his wheechair
Muslimah Media Watch: Adventures in Muslim Dating
skdadl @ pogge: How to think and talk clearly about the Taliban
by matttbastard
A Creative Revolution proudly presents The Canadian F-Word Blog Awards:
“Nominations graciously accepted from January 25 to February 8″
ETA: Much love and respect to mah home grrlz pale and Prole for taking this endeavour on. You grrlz rock.
by matttbastard
Dedicated to those who are trying to empty the ocean. Whether with teaspoons, shotglasses, or buckets, it counts. Much love.
(Shakes deserves a new silverware set.)
Birth Pangs: The Sacred and the Profane and UPDATE: RealityWorld v. Lying Fetus Fetishists
Culture Kitchen: Global Warming: Nukes Are NOT the Answer
Racialicious: The Veil Does Not a Prison Make (h/t Kevin)
A Creative Revolution: Throwing stones. and Sisters
Slant Truth: The (Natural) Psychology of Gender Stereotypes, With no Attention Paid to PoC Whatsoever (Evo-psych makes me wanna smoke crack. Blame my Nubian ancestry. Or the shape of my jaw. Or something.)
Orcinus: Huckabee’s 120 Days
Creekside: Afghanistan – We are so-o-o-o-o past 3-D
Politics’n’Poetry: Tar Sands Time Out! and The Uranium-Backed War on Indigenous Peoples or Why Canada Did Not Support the UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples
Black Looks: It is women who are being raped
unrepentant old hippie: Fetus Fetishists park Fetusmobile© at contractor’s home
pogge: They don’t really think Harper delegates, do they?
The Francis L. Holland Blog: Color-Aroused Decision Making Is Central to “Obama’s Fate” (Posted at MyDD) (h/t Tom)
AngryBlackBitch: Pander first…govern never… and The take away…
Fetch me my axe: World AIDS day, belatedly
mnemosyne: rants, musings (& some link love) b4 the end of yr
Women of Color Blog: A small post (h/t b. medusa)
by matttbastard
So much for my day off. Somehow ended up agreeing to work the night shift. Sigh–hate going out in this blustery, blizzardy weather; love you all.
(There’s always a fire burning over @ Fuck Mountain.)
Lenin’s Tomb: Sartre’s Godless Philosophy (h/t Jack Stephens)
All About Race: Disney does Dumb
Anti-Choice is Anti-Awesome: Mothering Mary
unrepentant old hippie: What’s the definition of “insanity” again?
Too Sense: Too Sense Sunday: The Jew In Hip-hop and Iowa Is So Far From Over
10 Zen Monkeys: The Open Source Party Proposal and The QuestionAuthority Proposal
Hoyden About Town: Unilever Ad Man Simon Clift Spells Out the “Joke” to Guerilla Cyber Feminists
a k8, a cat, a mission: December Scientiae Carnival!
Black Looks: Quick Links
A Creative Revolution: Hope You’re Sitting Down
The Galloping Beaver: Firefighters being trained as domestic spies
The Vanity Press: One More Crappy Idea
Feminist Peace Network: Guatemalan Shoe Company’s Macabre Ad Campaign
Slant Truth: 16 Days Of Action Against Gender Violence – Day 7
Red Jenny: Greg Palast on the anti-Chavez Hysteria
The Newshoggers: To Divide And Conquer The Unruly Province Of Iraq (h/t IOZ)
the life of pinky bear: Ti(RED): World AIDS Day and the Coporate Profit Machine (h/t misscripchick)
Feministe: What trans means to me (h/t Lisa)
The Cylinder: Taxi to the Dark Side
The Stormy Days of March: Awww! and Awww! Part 2
by matttbastard
Have been out of the loop, so this is largely a catch-up edition. Anyone who has any recommendations (whether of their own work or someone elses) feel free to join in the orgy via comments. As always, much love (and respect) to all.
(edit: I still heart–and respect–teh Shakes)
Vox ex Machina: Feminist blogosphere: Love it or leave it (h/t Kevin)
Women of Color Blog: teaching full frontal feminism
Black Amazon: I really tried.
Problem Chylde: A Quick Note
misscripchick: BA and BFP always get me going
Three-Toed Sloth: Last Words on Saletan (h/t Crooked Timber)
Prometheus 6: And by the way, Saletan never actually admitted to being a dick
Shark-fu @ Shakespeare’s Sister: Black and Missing
AngryBlackBitch: A worthy discussion that we need to stop dancing around Part I… and A worthy discussion that we need to stop dancing around Part II…
Birth Pangs: Not only do Sens suck, their ‘Better Halves’ support fetish fetishists and Sens still suck, but their fans are pretty nice
Politics ‘n’ Poetry: Canada Aglow for Dubya’s GNEP
April Reign: Our Glorious Dead
Hope and Onions: Postcards from the Toronto Vigil in memory of Robert Dziekanski
A Creative Revolution: You have to pay for your own expertise…Real or fake.
The Galloping Beaver: Nah! No conflict of interest there.
Zuky: Roundup — Fascism, Racism, Resistance (So much bloggy nourishment to digest over the weekend–thanks, Kai!)
unrepentant old hippie: More slogan co-opting
PoliTits: Stop Me Before I Blog Again (DCup, you get a big ol’ smooshy hug for posting a most awesome Weakerthans vid. Shall reciprocate in a li’l bit *smooshes*)
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