{"id":5279,"date":"2008-07-08T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5279"},"modified":"2008-08-30T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T03:26:17","slug":"wheres_the_brow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/wheres_the_brow\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the brownz?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, Fuerza Dulce buzzed me on IM to ask me if I was going to the conference on “Blogging while Brown<\/a>.” A BwB conference? I’d not heard of such a thing, but website masthead was promising, claiming that this was a conference “for, by and about bloggers of color.”<\/p>\n\n

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I eagerly looked to see who they had invited as panelists, expecting to see some of my favorite desi bloggers mentioned, and perhaps some new ones I had not yet encountered. But there was not a single desi name listed of any sort, neither ABD, DBD, IBD, PBD, BBD, SLBD, NBD nor BVD<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Nor were there any Arab or Latino bloggers, another possibility for a conference on “brown bloggers.”<\/p>\n\n

In fact, every single blogger listed<\/a><\/a> was African-American. Blogging while brown may well have been true in terms of skin color, since “black” is a misnomer when describing the hue of African-Americans, but in all colloquial meanings of the word, the conference would better have been described as “Blogging while Black.” And while the bloggers on the panel were all bloggers of color, they represented only one slice of the “of color” spectrum.<\/p>\n\n

What puzzles me is why the promoters of the conference aren’t be honest about what they’re doing. Why not just call themselves Blogging While Black? Are we so cool now that even black folks want to be brown? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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