Stealing other people’s stuff is not cool
Apr 9th, 2008 by Rebecca
This means you, [X].
This mess has spread pretty widely through the blogosphere already, and I’m too tired and ill to write particularly eloquently tonight, but this needs to be said.
It’s a bit of an understatement that [X] doesn’t exactly have the best record on race issues. The sort of feminist issues that you’ll see covered at Brownfemipower’s essentially never see the light of day at Pandagon, and she’s been called out more than a few times over the years for dismissing and silencing women of colour when they’ve called her out about offensive comments that she’s made.
So, Brownfemipower makes a brilliant speech about immigrant abuses being a feminist issue at the WAM conference a few days ago, at which [X] was in attendance. Days later, [X] writes an Alternet article which is pretty clearly cribbed from it - surprise surprise, without due credit. Bravo.
It’s bad enough that [X] has a long history of ignoring or dismissing women of colour as a feminist “big blogger”, but resorting to stealing the stuff of others - the WoC bloggers who tackle this stuff day in and day out, no less, is an all new low. So I’d like to add my voice to that cry: just stop it. Give credit where credit is due.
Brownfemipower’s brilliant speech.
Her response to [X], “Intellectual integrity”.
Belledame, Sudy, Lisa Harney, and Emily have more
Sylvia has perhaps the most apt response of all.
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