Re:new folks

>>>>> "sharon" == Sharon Stade <[email protected]> writes:

  sharon> Finally introducing myself after lurking on the list for
  sharon> almost 8 months.

Welcome. Lots of lurkers here so you're in good company.

  sharon> First found your site in January when I was searching for
  sharon> material on racism and whiteness. Liked Kendall's article,
  sharon> My White Problem and Yours, and much else I found on the
  sharon> site as well.

Cool, glad to hear it.

  sharon> Share an interest with monkeyfisters in web tech, design and
  sharon> CG, analysis of media coverage of social issues and
  sharon> political activism, as well as racism and white privilege.

Yep, if that's what you like, you'll be in good company *again*. :>

  sharon> Monkeyfist is one of the first sites related to political
  sharon> activism I visited on the web. I've been making a little
  sharon> project of exploring the Internet resources related to
  sharon> social and political activism, since then.  The information
  sharon> and links on this list and your site have been a help to
  sharon> this "newbie". Thanks.

This is very gratifying to hear. There are more and more good leftie
sites around every day. I stopped trying to keep up years ago.

  sharon> Have been left leaning in my thinking on politics, social
  sharon> issues for some time, have been actively involved in some
  sharon> community social programs in the past, (tutoring children
  sharon> from a Chicago housing project, soup kitchen, etc.) but
  sharon> nothing specifically political - yet.

Well, everything you mentioned strikes me as political, but I know
what you mean. Lots of good stuff happens in Chicago from what I can
tell. I'm starting to write a politics and technology column for LiP
Magazine, which is published out of Chicago, and one of the occasional
Monkeyfisters is up there too.

  sharon> Work full time, while going to night school, most recently
  sharon> in Internet marketing for a Financial firm that was god
  sharon> awful to work for but they did reimburse my tuition. Hope to
  sharon> finish up this Fall at Northwestern University in economics
  sharon> and communication studies.

Cool. N'western is a godo school. I've learned a lot about religion
and public policy from one of the law profs at N'western.

  sharon> Is it OK if I put in a plug for a progressive Chicago
  sharon> publication I like?  The September 3rd issue of In These
  sharon> Times has two good articles on the violence in
  sharon> Genoa. http://www.inthesetimes.org/ also
  sharon> http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2519/a from the August 20
  sharon> edition.

Cool. I used to subscribe; it's an interesting magazine, though a bit
in my doghouse for refusing a recent antiracist piece of mine. Do you
remember them publishing much explicit antiracism stuff?

Good to hear from you, Sharon. If I take the train through Chicago,
from Dallas, to go to DC protests at end of September, I'll know there
are least *two* Monkeyfist readers there. That way, if I get stuck in
some terminal, sleeping on my luggage, I can, uh, erm... something.

Best,
Kendall Clark
--
I am a finite state machine.