Geeks of Doom

My review of “Zombies Calling” has been published on the Geeks of Doom website. And as it turns out, I’ll be reviewing indie comic books regularly for the site in the future. You can find my current review HERE. I hope you enjoy!

TygerLily

newish photos

i’ve posted some newer photos that i took in january (around caucus time) up on my DeviantArt site. Check them out. I hope you enjoy.

Community Organizers

A lot happened at the RNC over the past week. Yes McCain borrowed statements from Obama in his acceptance speech and yes Palin is a questionable choice, but what really offended me was the patronizing tone and laughter that followed whenever someone on stage mentioned the words “Community Organizer”. It was times like those where the event stank of elitism. So I decided to reprint this post from Feministing.com and I would just like to say Thank God/Goddess for Community Organizers. They don’t get paid for what their worth and they do more that most are willing to.

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Thank You Thursdays: Community Organizers

Jay Smooth said it pretty damn well, but I still feel a feminist obligation to talk back to the Republicans who made fun of community organizing last night.

Thank you to all the community organizers, past and present, who have recognized the ways in which the personal is the political, hearing–in the individual stories of ordinary people–a common thread of struggle deserving of action and resolution. Thank you to those who jump started whole movements (feminism, civil rights, labor) with their audacity and daily, hourly, minute-by-minute courage to knock on doors, sit down with friends and strangers alike, educate, and most of all, listen. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted environmental racism–making sure that folks aren’t poisoned in their own neighborhoods just because they don’t have the resources to fight back. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted civil rights, educational failures, classism, racism, sexism, ableism etc. etc.

Thank you to my friend Daniel, who has done community organizing from Harlem to LA to Boston. Thank you to Biko Baker of League of Young Voters, who I once interviewed and was immediately impressed by. Thank you to Saul Alinsky, largely considered the father of community organizing (pictured above). Thank you to all of you I don’t know, who every day, make the choice to listen to ordinary people’s stories and help them link these stories into a template for honest-to-goodness social change.

And, yes, thank you to Barack Obama, for making the choice to be a community organizer so many years ago and for continuing to be proud and loud about the importance of the role of the community organizer for our nation’s wellbeing.