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Forgive me, for I have not blogged...

Submitted by Dianna on August 13, 2007 - 11:02am.
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It's been a while since I've posted here. There just hasn't been much to say-my summers are filled with boredom, not inspiration for posts about feminsim. I have a lack of contact with the outside world at the moment.

I have not budged in my political stance. If anything, I've grown stronger in it.

Celebrity culture pisses me off. What pisses me off even more is people who try to treat the symptoms of sexism, not sexism itself. What really gets me going is something like this.

A girl and boy (I don't remember the names) were two different sects of Muslim. They were in a relationship, and these sects hated each other.

The girl was stripped and beaten to death. And I cannot begin to define just how ill it makes me to hear about this utter crap. That girl was a human being, a 17 year old girl with feelings for a boy of a different religion.

Believe what you will as long as your beliefs don't infringe on another human being's right to live their life their way.

When I was reading the post about this-over at absynthemuse.com, a great website for young writers-I also found this:

Unlaced: the literary ezine dedicated to celebrating the power of young women and blotting out violence against women

[Submit your artwork and stories!]

As someone who hopes to be able to contribute to the great community there, I feel that this is a wonderful opportunity for me.

Lis, you're my shero. (Or, at least, one of them.)

Go give it a look.

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Great post Dianna. I love

Submitted by Kampire on August 14, 2007 - 3:51pm.

Great post Dianna. I love that you are drawing attention to the unspeakable hate crimes committed against women everyday AND giving us a way to do something about them.

I'm a little swamped with school starting next week but I will definitely try and work on something for unlaced. It is such a great opportunity, and really important too.

One of the things that has been a bit disturbing about everyone's silence this summer (blah blah, I know y'all are busy) is how violence is being perpetuated and women and girls our age are being silenced, and yet we are not using this incredible voice that we have here at AGA. We are a minority as young women who have been given an avenue to express ourselves, an actual audience who reads us. We should be doing so much more to raise the voices of our sisters who have been forcibly shut up.

I think I might blog a bit about it later, but thanks for this post.

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