Honest Scrap

Citizen K awarded Fox Home the Honest Scrap Blog Award according to his own criteria, which are:

Foxessa at Fox Home takes her stands with notable integrity and compassion. I can always count on her to provide a different and thought-provoking perspective on any issue she chooses to address.

Honest Weblog Award Rules:
1. You must brag about the award. (Done)
2. You must include the name of the blogger who bestowed the award on you and link back to that blogger. (Done)
3. You must choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. (See below)
4. Show their names and links and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with the Honest Weblog Award. (See below)
5. List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. (Ten? I have to do ten?)

Then pass it on with the instructions!

1. The Tiger Beatdown is the personal blog of professional, feminist blogger, Sady Doyle (you can see some of her work on salon.com's Broadsheet, for instance).  She is one of those young feminists who makes me just love them: they are geeks, they are witty as all hell, and often very funny, and almost always right on the money.  She often has guests on this personal blog.  She does not back down evah, but she will reconsider and will admit she's wrong if she thinks she is.
2. Story and Truth belongs to Brit critic, reviewer, musician, writer, Dan Hartland and his wife, Anna French.    For quite some time Dan's been going through the Sherlock Holmes ouvre, analysing  why  the story is effective and successful.  He and Anna say: "The Story and the Truth is a sort of inadequate catch-all term for what goes on here: we tend to talk about novels, history, food and fashion, politics and music, but there may also be photographs of soft toys and musicians. Stick around and see."  Often writers of books he's discussed will show up to present their viewpoint, when it doesn't agree with Dan's.
3. Premium T's blog is filled with the beauty with which she walks through her beautiful world.  I express it this way because she creates beauty as well as takes note of the beauties found in her daily life, that she shares with us through her poetry, her photographs, her food and in any other way that she is prompted to put her hands to.  However, she's never sticky sweet, cloying or in lalala land.  She sees what is there.  Perhaps some might think that peace and beauty loving T isn't an appropriate candidate for an honest scrap.  But when it comes to fighting for what is right, again, in those daily battles we all face, such as insurance companies and so on, she does not give up and she does not give in.  It is my conviction that if there were more T's in the world, there would be less need for other kinds of scrappers.
4. Geek Feminism Blog is a group blog of young feminist geeks who write, again, with wit and snark, about the issues of women in the digital worlds.  Additionally, you can appeal to them for help with your all your digital woes, as well as learn more about computing and coding than you thought you could learn -- while enjoying yourself and their voices.  They too are why I fell in love with young(er) feminists!  If you are in a wrangle, these are the people you want to be with!
5. The Angry Black Woman has guest voices, though it is mainly Tempest's blog, who also is a young  feminist of color, a geek and a writer.  This blog covers from the perspective of people of color, particularly women of color, the constant issues they are still facing in the freakin' 21st C, such as putting your hands on your friends' dreads is made of massive fail!  Now you may think this is non-issue, but if so, you are a person  who, learning about this, will be empowered to better share the spaces we all share. Are we seeing a theme here?  Young(er) feminists, who write, who love sf/f among other literatures, who are willing to share space with other voices, who believe in community building, who are totes cool and handy with the digitals, who are warriors, in the most positive, productive way of the warrior, warriors all communities need.
6. Asking the Wrong Questions is the personal blog of critic and reviewer Israeli Abigail Nussbaum.  Among other publications, she, like Dan, writes for Strange Horizons, a web sf/f magazine that pays its writers.  On her blog Abigail writes about a variety of books, television and movies.  Lively discussions ensue.
7. Dar Kush is the blog of television and film writer and novelist, Steven Barnes.  His wife is the writer and novelist Tananarive Due; they have a child.  Steve regularly discusses on his blog the means for building strong life committed relationships, that even within a strong marriage it can be difficult to rear a child, particularly if the child is difficult, and when your own childhood was fraught (and whose childhood wasn't? he likes us all to keep in mind).  His politics are fairly conservative, often even on issues that are the concerns of POC.  He's very different, for instance from Tempest, or me, for another.  I don't always agree with him.  I often think he's wrong.  A lot of what he writes about feels sooooo L.A. / Hollywoodish, and this midwestern farm girl finds his newish age approaches silly sometimes.  So what?  It's his life, and we all have the right and obligation to work out what works for us.  That we can and should work on living our lives right, rather than passively accept misery of any kind, is his philosophy, and who can disagree with that?  More to the point, Steve's positions are not necessarily predictable, which shows again how carefully he thinks his positions through.

Ten True Things About Me:

1. The 34th anniversary of our first date was this week -- the same night as the B&N reading and signing, the first public reading from The Year Before the Flood.
2. I believe that Cuba is brilliant at defense and protection of her people, pets and animals when threatened by hurricanes.
3. I loathe salmon.  Perhaps I've never been served any but farm salmon, and these fish are fat and flabby due to lack of exercise and force feeding of unnatural food.
4. I have significantly impaired vision.
5. We have the best friends!
6. I have always been blonde.
7. I have never voted for a republican.
8. I like the company of horses, cats and dogs and many other animals. 
9. I believe heaven is July, spent at a midwestern fresh water lake.
10. I have not yet been to India.