David has given Feministe a Thinking Blogger Award, and I’m quite thrilled and very flattered. Now I get to bestow the award on five others (which is difficult, since there are so many great blogs out there). The rules are:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (There is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
My five Thinking Blogger awards go to:
1. Lauren and Amanda of Unsprung. Lauren founded Feministe and Amanda blogs regularly at Pandagon, and they are two of my absolute favorite bloggers on the internets. They’re both smart as hell, funny, and probably cooler than you (and definitely cooler than me). Lauren has an amazing way of using her life experiences and her day-to-day activities as a jumping off point to discuss feminist issues; Amanda always provides fascinating, original and thought-provoking feminist analysis. I’ve learned a ton from both of them, and I aspire to be half as good as they are.
2. RH Reality Check. This blog provides fantastic information about reproductive justice, with an amazing team of bloggers who update very often. It’s a daily must-read for anyone interested in reproductive health.
3. Lawyers, Guns and Money. I started reading LGM because it has the baddest blog name around, and because of Scott Lemieux’s fantastic take on the legal end of feminist and reproductive rights issues. I stuck around for the very funny and very insightful Robert Farley, djw, and d. And now that they’ve got bean on board, I’m forever hooked.
4. No Snow Here. I don’t have the words to describe how much I love this blog, and how much I’ve learned from it. Nosnowhere is a brilliant, insightful writer who covers feminist issues that are too often silenced. She is fantastic, and if she’s not on your list of daily reads, you must add her.
5. The Silence of Our Friends. Another one of the most dynamic duos on the internet — Donna and Brownfemipower. They’re both fantastic writers, and they offer a really nice balance between interesting news bits that are flying under the radar (mostly because they affect marginalized communities) and thoughtful, longer-form commentary and analysis. They’re two of the best bloggers out there, and The Silence of Our Friends is one of my favorite (and most compelling) reads.
Thanks to David for the award!
Congrats, Feministe!
Thanks for naming some other blogs to check out. I actually only gave in to this blog-reading trend within the last 6 months or so and am scrambling to catch up. And, embarrassingly, I admit that I only read blogs that I have feeds from on my livejournal.
You know, I named LGM too. Is there a special prize for being named in two successive iterations of the same meme?
We’re honored. Goldenferi tagged me recently too and I have been remiss at passing the award along. Will do it ASAP. Thanks, Jill!
Could this be any more vain or kool-kiddish?
We’re all thinking bloggers, even the wingnuts, it’s hardly a compliment.
Oh please. It’s a way for bloggers to recognize each other, and to point out blogs that they like. It’s not all that much different from a “name five blogs you like” meme — are those vain and kool-kiddish too?
It’s not all that much different from a “name five blogs you like” meme — are those vain and kool-kiddish too?
Yep, 100% spoogefest. “Oh I totally heart you, Psychedelic Orlando Blog!”
That’s not a bad thing, but a “Thinking Blogger Award” is more pretentious than most.
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That’s not a bad thing, but a “Thinking Blogger Award” is more pretentious than most.
Saying “this blog really makes me think” is pretentious how?
Waaaah…. Feminist Gamers didn’t get a Thinking Blogger award. I’m gonna go write a post about how I don’t need your stupid Thinking Blogger award, and how it’s really stupid and masturbatory and why doesn’t anybody love me?!?!
(runs off sobbing)
Jackson: Saying ‘this blog makes me think’ is not pretentous at all because it’s not saying ‘ Here join our elite club’ – unlike a “Thinking Bloggers Award”.
If someone makes you think, why not just say that? Why this desire for self-awarded prizes all the time?
Mighty Ponygirl: here, have a hanky. Don’t worry, I’m sure someone will tag you and five others with a ‘Sobbing Blogger’ award soon enough.
Gee, I thought one of the main goals of blogs and bloggers was to create supportive communities in which to share information and recognize individual contributions. What is so wrong with stating that certain blogs and their communities have broadened one’s perspective? What I love best about the various blogs I read daily is the supportive and respectful dialogue that occurs within and among them. I see no reason not to expand the community even wider by introducing readers to other great blogs thay they may never have heard of in a fun, lightearted, and completely harmless way. We deal with heavy stuff all day long. It’s good to have a little fun now and then and just appreciate each other and what we are building.
Palau — does it come with a pony?
Palau — (sniff) does it come with a pony?
jenn: You and I are violently agreeing: I’ve nothing but support and respect for er, respect and supportiveness.
But it all too easily becomes smug and exclusive and “Aren’t we clever?” -ish..
I find the Thinking Blogger awards useful, as it always sends me somewhere i hadn’t gone before. It’s not vain (and I say this as one who has not been named, to my knowledge, a TB) — it’s one more small tool for helping folks sift through the huge number of blogs that continue to proliferate.
so this is OT, but… why am i getting a porn splashpage when i try to load pandagon? anyone know?
Palau,
“Violently agreeing”? “…support and respect for er, respect and supportiveness”?
You make cleverness seem so easy. And boring.
why am i getting a porn splashpage when i try to load pandagon?
Um…I don’t…
Jenn: touche :)
M. Ponygirl: a sparkly pony, even,