Yesterday, the Black Weblog Awards published this year’s nominees for the prize in a bunch of categories: From ‘Best Business Blog’ to ‘Best Comic Blog’, over 150 people have been nominated in a total of 37 categories (!) for their social media work. Wow, that’s a whole load of new information sources to explore! Founded [...]
Better late than never: I added Facebook’s LIKE button to my posts. As of now, you may finally like, share and recommend whatever tickles your fancy here. Especially installed for those who like to show appreciation in silence. Or you may directly mail posts to your friends on Facebook via the SEND option. Definitely an [...]
Brave as any woman can be, CBS reporter Lara Logan recalls the February night on Tahrir Square in Egypt, when a mob tore off her clothes and violently sexually assaulted her in the middle of the road. She decided she would only tell this story once, hoping that this one telling is heard by as [...]
On 30th June and the 1st of July, the 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference will take place in Berlin. The event aims at bringing together individuals and organizations interested in all things open knowledge. If you’ve been following GCB, you know that I agree with the organizers’ assumption that open knowledge promises significant social [...]
Photo: Tasya van Ree Not too long ago, “news” broke in Germany that a bunch of insurance brokers were celebrating lucrative deals by taking advantage of prostitutes and snorting cocaine in an open air brothel. Sibylle Berg, a Swiss author who describes herself on her Twitter with the words “buys nothing, fucks no one”, has [...]
After a long wait, please let me introduce to you today another achieved female blogger: Lynn Casper. Amongst other projects, Lynn produces Homoground, a weekly queer music podcast, and runs a personal tumblr called scantron. If you’d like to find out how blogging helps us strengthen our personalities, why dead blogs are part of the [...]
Photo: Alba Yruela (via) An article that has been making the blog rounds lately and that I wouldn’t want to keep from you in light of all those swimwear adverts on display is There Is No Such Thing As A Bikini Body. Alba Yruela, who was born in Spain in 1989, doesn’t only take her [...]
Diejenigen unter Euch, die mir auf Twitter oder Facebook folgen, haben die frohe Kunde vielleicht schon vernommen: Ich darf am übernächsten Wochenende, also zwischen dem 10. und dem 12. Juni 2011, im Rahmen des Textil Festivals einen Kurzgeschichten-Workshop in Erfurt leiten. Juhu! Und das beste: Anmeldung und Teilnahme sind kostenlos. Doppel-juhu! Weitere, ebenfalls kostenfreie Workshops, [...]
I found this documentary preview on Starrene Rhett‘s blog Gangstarr Girl. In her post No Pity Parties Please: A Dark Girl’s Manifesto, she takes a clear stand against self-hate and White worship in the Black community: I am a dark skinned woman. I am not a victim. (…) I cringed when I watched the trailer [...]