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October 9, 2003Roundtable on Race and Gender in CyberspaceI was proud to be part of this Drylongso Roundtable: DRYLONGSO: EXTRAORDINARY THOUGHT FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE RELEASE OF SUMMER 2003 ISSUE: Drylongso.com released its Summer 2003 Plain Brown Wrapper issue entitled "Gender Issues in Sepia Space," on October 6, 2003. The online magazine and weblog, founded in Washington D.C. in 1999, devotes its entire issue to exploring gender and gender politics in "sepia space". COVER This issue features the inauguration of the Drylongso Roundtable Discussion. Drylongso sought out some of the pioneers of the internet and asked them about their experiences with race and gender. In a wide ranging email conversation, Art McGee, Kali Tal, Dr. Goddess, Mike Bowen and Drylongso's Editor, Lisa Jeter engage in a meta discussion of their expectations of their participation on the internet and the realities such as cyberstalking, feminism, misogyny and expressions of masculinity. FEATURES Feature articles include "The Gender Warriors" by Leonard Johnson, internet software consultant, writer and humorist, who likens black relationships to the military. Metropolitan College of New York adjunct professor Lynne D. Johnson offers her thoughts on whether the internet is changing the nature of black male and female relations in "Imagining a Gender Neutral Black Male/Female Relationship." Bob Davis of Soul Patrol Newsletter gives us "360 Degrees of Love," his list of ten oldies that exemplify the significant stages of a romantic relationship. In "Her Wired Black Body", Kamela Heyward-Rotimi is mindful of the distortion of black women's sexuality online and feels the need to don a superheroine costume when she navigates her way in sepia space. EXCERPT Imagining a Gender Neutral Black Male/Female Relationship, by Lynne D. Johnson
Drylongso.com presents the works of several renowned poets including "Least Expected," by Toni Asante Lightfoot, co-founder of the poetry collective the Modern Urban Griots; "NO! For Aishah Shahidah Simmons," by poet, journalist, essayist, and hiphop historian Kevin Powell and "Afroam Woman," by Kimberly C. Ellis, scholar, published author, and university professor. Cave Canem fellow Mendi Lewis Obadike and poet/lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner also offer pieces of work on the gender issues theme. Rounding out this issue are a profile of Big Chief Donald Harrison by New Orleans editor, writer, and filmmaker Kalamu ya Salaam, and "Pop American Teen Idol," a previously published work of fiction by Georgia Southern University Professor Rochelle Spencer. http://www.drylongso.com/zine/2003/summer/ Drylongso means customary or ordinary. Drylongso.com is news, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, contests, and events for thinking people of color. The online magazine and weblog offers fresh perspectives on the ordinary issues, events and ideas that shape our public and private lives, and presents ideas unencumbered by spin and freed of manipulative rhetoric. Drylongso.com was founded in 1999. ---------------------------------------------------- Posted by kalital at 12:27 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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