Most Excellent

So, last week i was honoured to be given the Rated E For Excellent award by Last Crazy Horn... and so, I have to pass it on to 10 other bloggers.

This is a somewhat difficult task, because Last Crazy Horn picked Miss Crip Chick, who i was going to pick, and one of the other bloggers she picked picked Sweet Perdition, who i was also going to pick, and then Sweet Perdition picked... most of the other bloggers i was going to pick, namely Abnormaldiversity, Ballastexistenz, Chewing The Fat, The Gimp Parade (who i'm a little worried about actually, as she hasn't posted since March 22nd, which is rare for her), Questioning Transphobia, and Asperger Square 8... so, those i have picked are picked from the set of blogs i read not including that list... listing is strictly alphabetical and does not indicate any sort of order of preference (as if that was even possible between diverse individuals) (also excluded are group blogs or strictly-news blogs, so sorry BBC Ouch and F.R.I.D.A.)...

Andrea's Buzzing About blogs on neurodiversity, education (from both the "educator" and "educatee" standpoints), and the fight against pseudoscience... as well as insects and other creepy creatures. She combines simultaneously impassioned and rational defence of difference with devastating deconstruction of curebies and other nonsense-peddling quacks and hysteria merchants... and she also makes absolutely hilarious Dadaist poetry out of bizarre Google search terms ;)

(She also gave me a blog award back in December, so it's nice to be able to reciprocate the honour)

Emi Koyama's Eminism is more of a website than a blog really, but does contain a blog (even if it isn't posted to often), and needs inclusion simply because of the awesome way that ze interconnects discourses on transsexual, transgender and intersex issues, disability issues, fat acceptance, postcolonial economics, and feminist sex education (among other things i've probably forgotten) into a complete, consistent and fully intersectional radical libertarian approach to embodiment. Cutting edge in every sense.

Larry Arnold aka Laurentius Rex is, AFAIK, the only other autism or disability rights blogger who i've actually met in real, 3-dimensional space. If i live to his age, then i would be very, very satisfied if at his age i am anything like him.

No Designation hasn't been posted to much recently, but is one of the better blogs i've managed to find on queer and/or trans issues that manages to intelligently yet readably write about the distinctions and interactions between gender and sexuality, while arguing for the abolition of all forms of gender- and sexuality-based discrimination, both overt and subtle.

Charles Johnson aka Rad Geek is about the only US-based political blog i can stand to read, and also probably the best defender i know of of the true meaning of libertarianism. There are issues (particularly economic ones) that i disagree with him on, but 90% of the time he writes incredibly powerful and passionate commentary that expresses my views far better than i could. And he's one of the very few non-disabled blogger/activists i can think of who care about disability issues.

Elizabeth McClung's blog Screw Bronze! is one of the most raw, powerful and moving blogs out there, while getting wickedly dark humour out of even the most harrowing of situations... and she writes posts averaging over 100 words every day, even while on an awesome culture-packed trip to Japan. She has made me laugh, she has made me cry, and, generally, she fucking rocks.

Trinity at The Strangest Alchemy blogs on subjects as diverse as BDSM, disability rights and sex-positive feminism, and manages to tie them all together with a passion for freedom and autonomy that is both highly intelligent and very sexy. If only we lived on the same continent... :( I also have to give props to her blog for being on LiveJournal and still looking better than those of many WordPress users ;)

Joel Smith's site This Way Of Life, including the blog NTs Are Weird, is one of many great autism advocacy sites. One of the things he is best at is connecting autism advocacy to the wider disability rights movement, and demolishing hierarchies of "functioning level" or diagnostic label within the autistic community, He's also one of very few Americans who properly understand, and both believe in and practice, the social model of disability, and one of the best at explaining it.

The brilliantly named Autistic Bitch From Hell's blog Whose Planet Is It Anyway? is another passionate, no-bullshit autism advocacy blog. There are things i disagree with her on (such as her support for Barack Obama), but she destroys curebie-ism and other forms of bigotry, and exposes the hypocrisy of much of the so-called "autism awareness movement", with devastating effectiveness...

(This list took me far longer to put together than i thought possible...)

Anyway. You are all Most Excellent. Now go name some other excellent blogs that i haven't yet heard of...