WSS Featured Blogger: lenée of sister/ outsider

• Name: lenée
• Blog: http://coloredgurl.blogspot.com
• Tag Line:sister/ outsider.
• Location:philadelphia.

1. How did you start blogging? Why do you keep at it?

blogging, for me, was a way of having a journal that i'd actually be incapable of losing. i've been blogging since 2002 & so far, so good. i keep at it primarily because i'm an exhibitionist & because i've become a much better writer as a result of having a blog. or, at least, i think i have.

2. What are your most important issues?

africans, both diasporan & continental. women. equitable treatment of all humans.

3. What's the nicest recognition you've ever received from the media and/or the blogosphere?

i get added to peoples' blogrolls... people i've never even communicated with. the random signings of my guestbook & comments are also quite neat. it makes me feel all dope, like folks dig what i'm talkin about.

4. Who is your audience? What is unique about your blog?

my audience is anyone who understands that there are such things as intersecting oppressions, that the things we do affect everyone around us, & people who want to learn more about people with whom they might
not regularly associate. i can't really name what makes my blog unique. i daresay that folks who read it can say so better than i. to me, it's just my ramblings & occasional well-thought responses to certain things.

5. Most frustrating aspect of blogging?

now that i've learned that people are reading, i sometimes feel obligated to write outstandingly . . . when sometimes all i wanna do is gripe about stuff. & i do. because it's my blog & i'll whine if i want to. it's frustrating to challenge yourself all of the time.

6. What's the one point you'd like a reader to take away from your blog- the one thing for them to really "get"?

that i'm not even close to being preachy or on a soapbox. i'm sorting this stuff out one day at a damn time, just like everyone else is ... or should be.

fire & desire