Photo: Two for Fashion So the presentation I told you about below went really well – phew! Everyone at About:Fashion was super friendly and interested, the atmosphere was calm and easy with natural light, and I managed to engage the audience in a couple of talks on blogging. I love when education gets to happen [...]
Zwischendurch mal wieder eine kleine Mitmach-Aktion: Die Pseudoerbse, die ich erst heute über den veganen Blog Food and Fotos entdeckte, ruft dazu auf, den links abgebildeten Button auf dem eigenen Blog einzubinden und damit ein Zeichen gegen Tierversuche zu setzen. Die Idee ist, hinter dem Icon auf http://bgt.pseudoerbse.de zu verlinken, wo Informationen rund um Tierschutz [...]
Josephine, 27, is currently sailing from London to Istanbul with a bunch of other people. Check out her blog to follow their journey across Europe’s rivers (!) on RiversideStories.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Image: CNN Amina Abdalla, also known as Gay Girl in Damascus, was kidnapped yesterday and has been missing since. (Full story here.) Sign the Avaaz petition and join the Facebook campaign to help as much as you can at this point.
Tarek Amr has kindly informed me that questions about Syrian blogger Amina’s identity surfaced – as of yet, no one could get hold of any of her relatives or even confirm her being born in the United States. The photo of “Amina” used by news agencies so far turned out to be one of a [...]
Source: Blica Model-turned-stylist Hanneli Mustaparta was recently quoted saying “Bloggers aren’t competitors in the way magazines are. We stick together.” Anne Feldkamp didn’t quite agree and put Hanneli’s statement up for discussion. Personally, I find that (at least amongst most bloggers I know) a certain sense of community overlies competitiveness. Save a couple exceptions, mutual [...]