Gathering Up a Certain Kind of Awesomeness

Over on my Twitter stream and my personal blog, I’ve spent the last two days putting out a request for people who self-identify as intelligent independent creative queer professionals to speak up and let me know who they are. As of right now (9:40 am PST on 5/21/08), 43 people have raised their hands. Many of them have done so privately, either through email or a direct message to me on a social networking site. Others have done so publicly, through their own Twitter accounts or by leaving a public comment on one of my blogs.

I didn’t realize there were so many of us within reach of one another.

I’d like to echo the same request here: if you’re in this group, please let me know. You can send me an email at andi (at) genderfork (dot) com or leave a comment below.

And a quick note about the words. I realize every single one of those terms (intelligent, independent, creative, queer, and professional) can mean lots of different things, and they’ve each been brought up for debate at least once in the last 48 hours. I’d like you to go read what I have to say about them before deciding where you stand on them.

Then, if it’s you, just raise your hand.

Thanks,
Sarah


Posted by on May 21st, 2008 at 08:59 am

Category: thoughts 2 comments »

2 Responses to “Gathering Up a Certain Kind of Awesomeness”

  1. withoutscene

    *raises hand*

    [Reply]

  2. sarah

    Awesome! Thanks, withoutscene!

    [Reply]


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