Y’all will have to forgive me, but I have been so so busy these days. I promise, I’m not going to do a blogcast a month! Thanks to those of you who have written in with your support; I really appreciate it. In this blogcast, I talk a little bit about SoCon ’07 (what was good, what was bad and what was just a hot mess) and the 2007 Atlanta Black Gay Blogger Meetup. What worked. What didn’t worked. And why it may never work. *sigh* Enjoy!
- SoCon ’07
- Meet Your Affiliates: Karsh of BlackGayBlogger.com [Georgia Podcast Network]
- PodCamp Atlanta
- 2007 Atlanta Black Gay Blogger Meetup
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It was great meeting you Karsh! Hope to see you around at Podcamp and elsewhere.
What Rusty said. :)
While you met some (or is that many?) people who lacked the most fundamental social graces at SoCon 07’, I am sure you came away from that experience with something. It’s a shame Black folks have to be so nasty and primal. You should expect more from your collective counterparts who are really- in some ways- pioneers of a sociotechnological movement.
I listened to your comments at “Meet Your Affiliates.” By now I am beating a dead horse as Noah’s Arc is defunct, but will note this anyway. NA was not holistically representative of the Black Gay community, and I would go further and argue that it did not have to represent the entire Black Gay Community in part or entirely.
Film is an incredibly limited medium and, for the most part, it does not change or save lives- think Paris is Burning. It can inspire and motivate, but that alone is not a basis for understanding an entire group of people. What film can do is give a voice to those who often have no other means to be heard- much like blogging (side-note: The word “blogging” should be added to the MS WORD dictionary. Perhaps in the 07 version). With that said, I am uncertain whose voice we were listening to at NA. Furthermore, I am not certain if that voice was worth listening to in its entirety. What we had was four Black gay men, very much in touch with their softer sides, living in Southern California re-enforcing effeminate/masculine stereotypes and light skin vs. dark skin paradigms, re-defining some traditional standards of beauty and non-beauty and providing healthy doses of all things tired. Is that someone’s existence? You bet. Was it entertaining at times? Absolutely. Was it reflective of all? Hell no. But it did act as a springboard to create conversations about some of the issues inherent to its plot, which, in turn, are relevant on many levels.
So, um, when ARE you moving away from Atlanta? ;-)
dude, don’t you know the rule? if there are more than two of us in the room, that’s a war council and we can’t be seen talking to each other? that’s why we act snotty man. *LAWD*
i think i saw some of those snotty blk mofos you mentioned at SoCon at the pandora meetup last week (which was awful all by itself..a veiled marketing ploy attended by a bunch of verbose longtime-aol-user-non-techie fanboys of tim westergren). folks need to get a grip on some home training…