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By: Burning Words » Blog Archive » On desiring diversity in the Australian blogosphere

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:37:34 +0000

[…] means that we’re starkly devoid of local content that means much. As Firefly mentioned on the very first comment on this blog back in January, it means that we wind up spending much of our time writing and commenting on […]

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:24:06 +0000

oh, hey, awesome! welcome to the ’sphere, thanks for the link.

By: Fire Fly

Fire Fly — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:11:09 +0000

Oh, and Queen Emily is also an Australian trans blogger: http://sexualambiguities.blogspot.com/

By: little light

little light — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:22:46 +0000

Thank you so much for the nod. It’s really nice to know I’ve helped you find the people I myself look up to, you know? They do such amazing, important work.
I’ll be looking forward to your perspective.

By: kieran

kieran — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:52:57 +0000

Hey Bec, Others, I’ve really been looking forward to Burning Words. I’m sure that BW will add something new to what is quite a shallow, white bread Australian blogosphere.

I share your frustration with soggy left, middle class, middle aged white male Australian bloggers. When you and I started the Dead Roo I mentioned that I thought we were on the cusp of the breakout of blogs in Australia, and that it was the right time to start a new group blog in order to be there and be part of it.

But it didn’t happen. I share your frustration with the lack of impact and lack of depth the Australian ’sphere has seen. The breakout of Australian blogging into the “dig league” has yet to happen, and in part I think that’s because of the lack of real alternative appeal Australian blogs have been able to offer Australian people.

Hell, what will you read on LP that’s not already in the opinion pages of the Age?

I think you’re starting BW at the right time, you’re offering something that you’re both passionate about and that we don’t see a lot (read none) of in the Australian ’sphere. I’ve no doubt that if blogging does breakout and play a greater role in the Australian media in the near future, you and Burning Words will be there in the thick of it.

thanks for your ongoing friendship,

Kieran
former co-editor of the Dead Roo.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:14:17 +0000

Yeah, I’d gathered as much - it’s pretty hard to try and keep discussions going on about Australian issues when all the blogs I wind up reading are American.

I’ve also noticed that about the whiteness of the Australian blogosphere in general - I’ve seen very little in the way of blogs by people of colour here, and it hasn’t been for lack of looking.

By: Fire Fly

Fire Fly — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:00:11 +0000

I was also getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of specifically Australian feminist blogging - while we have a few good bloggers, we lack anywhere near the critical mass of our American counterparts.

I have to agree with you there. I feel a lot of pressure to write US-centric material, when the major ’sphere-wide debates centre on issues that begin and end in the USA. And while there are some big Australian feminist blogs (Hoyden About Town, Blogger on a Cast Iron Balcony), the Aussie ’sphere seems much whiter than the US ’sphere, which makes me rather uncomfortable.