WHY EVERYONE SHOULD BLOG!
Blogs have made a tremendous impact on the lives of LGBTTI2QA and HIV-affected people here in Ontario and across the country. Through our use of blogs on our website we acknowledge and hope to continue to help to make significant contributions that other LGBTTI2QA blogs are making to raise awareness about LGBTTI2QA issues.
As has become clear over the past few years, blogs provide journalists and activists an opportunity to effectively report on issues that mainstream and print media do not cover. This online commentary not only raises awareness and visibility to issues important to our communities but also allows more nuanced and deeper reporting on these often complex and difficult issues.
And for marginalized people, who rarely see themselves represented in the media or who live in places without strong LGBTTI2QA communities, these blogs create a community for us. Blogs function as a modern day town crier, bringing us together regardless of where we live or who we know, to share information and knowledge. Blogs provide a forum where we can report, debate, consider and call our communities to action.
The information imparted over blogs - both with the citizen journalists writing about issues important to the community and readers whose comments add texture to the stories - has engendered an ability for online organizing and activism like no other media.
Blogs can deliver news to millions of people as that news is unfolding, engaging us as participants instead of passive readers. Often the blogs are where news begins. Blogs encourage the grassroots activism that have happened for decades in our local communities and allow for this activism to happen on a national stage.
Blogs have taken on the issue of abuse against and within the LGBTTI2QA communities in a way that allows for us to have a national conversation about this abuse. They have reported on the intimate partner abuse that so many of us experience in our relationships, the record increases in bias-motivated abuses of LGBTTI2QA people and the way that anti-LGBTTI2QA policies, has created a culture that perpetuates abuse against LGBTTI2QA people. These blogs have given us a space to think and talk about these issues and have armed us with the information and knowledge necessary to fully engage in the struggle to end abuse in and against our communities.
As has become clear over the past few years, blogs provide journalists and activists an opportunity to effectively report on issues that mainstream and print media do not cover. This online commentary not only raises awareness and visibility to issues important to our communities but also allows more nuanced and deeper reporting on these often complex and difficult issues.
And for marginalized people, who rarely see themselves represented in the media or who live in places without strong LGBTTI2QA communities, these blogs create a community for us. Blogs function as a modern day town crier, bringing us together regardless of where we live or who we know, to share information and knowledge. Blogs provide a forum where we can report, debate, consider and call our communities to action.
The information imparted over blogs - both with the citizen journalists writing about issues important to the community and readers whose comments add texture to the stories - has engendered an ability for online organizing and activism like no other media.
Blogs can deliver news to millions of people as that news is unfolding, engaging us as participants instead of passive readers. Often the blogs are where news begins. Blogs encourage the grassroots activism that have happened for decades in our local communities and allow for this activism to happen on a national stage.
Blogs have taken on the issue of abuse against and within the LGBTTI2QA communities in a way that allows for us to have a national conversation about this abuse. They have reported on the intimate partner abuse that so many of us experience in our relationships, the record increases in bias-motivated abuses of LGBTTI2QA people and the way that anti-LGBTTI2QA policies, has created a culture that perpetuates abuse against LGBTTI2QA people. These blogs have given us a space to think and talk about these issues and have armed us with the information and knowledge necessary to fully engage in the struggle to end abuse in and against our communities.
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