you have the boldness of a much younger woman ([info]ciderpress) wrote in [info]yennenga,
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Asian Women Blog Carnival

Hello!

I'm pleased to announce a call for submissions for the first Asian Women Blog Carnival as well as suggestions for themes and hosts for possible future carnivals. I hope that there will be enough interest for us to continue this, monthly or bimonthly or quarterly so please do let me know if you are interested in hosting a future Asian Women blog carnival with (or without!) a specific theme in mind. I am new to this and I expect that I will be muddling through so if you have any suggestions or advice, please drop me a line!

This carnival is intended to focus on Asian women. The definition of Asian, within the scope of this carnival, includes people from East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Asia, South-East Asia, Far East, Middle East, Near East and people of Asian descent living in non-Asian countries. The definition of women, within the scope of this carnival, includes transwomen and cisgendered women.

Call for Submissions

For the first edition, which I will be hosting in this community thanks to [info]delux_vivens's kind offer, there is no specific theme. I would like to highlight the diversity of Asian women and topics regarding identity in Asian majority and Asian minority cultures. Submissions can range from feminism, representation, culture, history, work, activism, beauty, health, sexuality, politics, economics, philosophy, class, education, religion, how we identify and relate to other PoC groups, personal stories etc.

Please feel free to submit your own posts or suggest good posts or links by someone else for this carnival. This carnival is not livejournal specific, please feel free to participate from other journalling sites and blogs. You may submit multiple posts. Submissions from from women and men of colour as well as allies are welcome.

All types of work, such as essays, prose, poems, personal narratives are accepted.

Deadline

Friday, 3 April 2009

Please post submissions to [this post]. If you feel more comfortable with email, please feel free to email me with your links and posts at aciderpress @ gmail.com (put Asian Women Carnival in the subject line, please!). Volunteers for Host for future editions can contact me either by commenting or emailing me at the address above.

Thank you!

(crossposted, I'm sorry if you are seeing this a few too many times.)

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[info]color_blue

February 24 2009, 00:13:10 UTC 3 years ago

I'm so glad you're doing this!

[info]sabrina_il

March 3 2009, 20:59:47 UTC 3 years ago

Hi, if you ever need help hosting or you know, anything else, please let me know and I'll be happy to help. This is a fantastic idea and I'd love to help out any way I can.

[info]ciderpress

March 5 2009, 00:14:02 UTC 3 years ago

Thanks, I will take you up on that! :>

[info]seraninse

April 4 2009, 05:16:27 UTC 3 years ago

I rather think that icon picture a little too clichéd considering what the intent of this carnival is.

[info]ciderpress

April 4 2009, 08:05:49 UTC 3 years ago

I actually don't agree that you or I or anyone gets to call someone's personal experience "too clichéd" or not "too clichéd". Some Asian women eat with chopsticks or forks or with their hands or spoons or all of those things at the same time; some Asian women eat noodles and rice and curry and french fries all at time.

OTOH, those Chinese take-out boxes? Only exist in America and in some parts of Europe. That experience you say is "too clichéd"? Is many of the experiences that East Asian women, such as myself, have living in Western countries.

[info]seraninse

April 4 2009, 08:16:10 UTC 3 years ago

Fair. If that picture was meant to depict someone's personal experience and not just a randomly chosen picture, then I do apologize for calling someone's personal experience clichéd.
But when I said "clichéd", that wasn't what I meant, exactly.
I was referring to my gut reaction that it's a rather exclusive picture - noting that not all Asian women use chopsticks, or are as comparatively light-skinned, or (personally) look as East-Asian as that woman appears to be.
It has all the characteristics of the usual "Asian" suspects, and is therefore, to me, in a way excluding of all the other experiences Asian women might have. This, from a viewpoint that often when people say "Asian" they often forget that it's not just East Asia.
Frankly, I do admit, I hadn't really consciously registered that it was a take-out box until now, but that doesn't really help anyone's point that it is one.

[info]ciderpress

April 4 2009, 08:31:05 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  April 4 2009, 08:32:11 UTC

*g*

And this is one of the reasons I really wanted to do the carnival -- I'm from the U.K., here the term "Asian" doesn't include East Asians at all. British Asian means that you are from South Asia and when we fill out forms, people of Asian descent from other parts of Asia can't tick "Asian". So, there you go, for me, to say "Asian" and include myself is a real shift in perspective. For me, this is me making a claim in an experience that is often divided and unwelcoming of people who look like *me*.

I take your point that your experience and your own perspective makes this icon mean something different to you. I will make carnival-specific icons so that, yes, people from all parts of Asia feel represented in avatars as well as in the submissions themselves.

Thanks.

[info]seraninse

April 5 2009, 02:15:37 UTC 3 years ago

I never knew that. That is definitely odd, because in the US, in my personal experience, it definitely takes a tick or two before the "oh, non-East-Asians are actually also Asians" kicks in.
So what do East Asians identify as? White? "Other"?
Thanks for the clarification, that changes a lot regarding my perception of that icon.
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