Blog love... computer hate

Tera at Sweet Perdition gave me a blog award over a month ago and i basically... forgot about it [insert embarrassed smiley]

(I think part of the reason is that i always thing my writing is cringeworthily awful, and certainly not deserving of any sort of award... and, combined with things getting a bit dark in my head generally, as tends to happen at this time of year, i think i sort of "block out" any positive attention i get...)

Anyway, this is one that is supposed to be passed on to 7 blogs... and i'm going to try to avoid passing it on to the ones who i've passed previous blog awards on to - so apologies Amanda, Elizabeth, Stacey, Dave, etc... you are all awesome, but lots of people know about you already ;) - i'm purposely choosing blogs that not many people (so far) comment on...

First up is Lindsay of Autist's Corner - i was going to say "my favourite new blog of 2008", but looking at her archives i see she started blogging in 2007, not long after i did in fact. I only discovered her blog a few months ago tho. She writes about autism, feminism, science fiction, critiques of psychiatry, and a lot of other stuff... and is a shitload better at brevity than i am ;)

And, a deity has to reward his follower ;)

Cedar of Taking Up Too Much Space came onto the scene fairly recently, saying awesome and thought-provoking stuff about gender identity, trans activism, feminisms, privilege and intersectionality, and has a very, very enviable gift for writing about these sorts of topics at the highest intellectual level while still being clear, powerful, relevant and accessible. Ze rocks.

Hexpletive is an awesomely ass-kicking Indigenous Australian disabled feminist sex worker, blogger and sci-fi/comics fan. Her posts range from deconstructing media racism and sexism, postcolonial history and the psychiatric system to keeping rabbits and vegetarian cooking... and she's bloody good at tearing trans/BDSM/sexworker-phobic "feminists" to shreds.

Lyn Levett is a fairly new blogger, a physically impaired, communication-aid-using trans woman, performance artist, maker of very sexy electronic music and longtime supporter of the UK disability arts scene.

Anne C of Existence Is Wonderful describes hirself as "a small piece of the universe observing itself", and blogs about autism, neurodiversity and disability rights as well as transhumanism, the science of ageing and environmental science, as well as being a fellow sci-fi and zoology geek. I think she was also one of the first bloggers to link to me :)

Mik Danger of Coffee and Gender, another kick-ass performance artist, is also another of the bloggers who always inspire me massively by creating radical crossover between queer, trans and disability identities and politics. Go intersectionality :)

Finally, lilwatchergirl of Through Myself And Back Again has just started doing the course that i have been wanting to do for at least 3 years, and (hopefully) has plenty of meaty posts about the social theory of disability coming up as a result of it (not to put the pressure on too much... ;) ) - also, she's one of the very few other disability rights bloggers who i have actually met in real life...

So, here's a cute image for you all:



In other news, my computer seems to be fucking up again. It seemingly died this morning, and from the kind of noises it was making it seemed like the hard drive had died... which makes it the THIRD hard drive to fuck up in this computer... however, some fairly random and not very hopeful swapping of cables and ports around enabled it to start up again, but i'm not confident that this wasn't a fluke and/or that it will turn on again after i turn it off again... so, the several other "proper" posts that i've got in the works at the moment may have to wait for a while, if this thing doesn't turn on tomorrow...

(I can in fact now afford to buy another computer, but would very much prefer not to have to, especially as this one was built for me for free... still, it might be the wiser option...)

Anyway. I will try to get back to comments i still haven't responded to on previous posts soon...