International Blog Against Racism Week
From writer Justine Larbalestier I found out that this week is somebody’s International Blog Against Racism Week.
From oyceter:
If you would like to participate, here’s what to do:
1. Announce the week in your blog.
2. Switch your default icon to either an official IBAS icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBAS icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do so.
3. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of a race that isn’t yours, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much information about it in the blogosphere, just viral spreading. So let it spread!
I’m not on LJ so I can’t do anything about the icons. Since I’m always blogging about racism, I’m not going to go out of my way this week. But please let me encourage you to address the topic in your blogs this week. And I’ll see if I can drum up something appropriate. Why not? There’s always something that makes me angry.
If not, I’ll just post links to cool blog entries other people have written. Like this.
(Cross-posted at SeeLight.)
Hi, Claire, thank you for the link! There isn’t any more information to it than that statement, really. It’s like viral marketing, only without the … marketing. A bunch of us had been frustrated about recent discussions of race in sf media & literature had gone, so we bounced around some ideas of what to do about it and ended up with the idea of an LJ meme with more do-it-yourself content. We meant the grand name to be a bit self-mocking, while also being totally serious, but the mockery hasn’t come through to a lot of people.
Rilina’s collecting links as posts appear.
cool, thanks for this! I’ll repost in the main area.