Tag Project, Still Looking for Volunteers

[sanguinity]

I know that the internet is lightly populated on the weekends, so I wanted to bring this to your attention for those who missed it: Let's Talk About Tagging.

This weekend, we started the push to move all author tags over to delicious, where we also started creating the by.poster tags that some of you had asked for. Roughly a thousand posts need to be indexed on delicious; I currently have commitments from volunteers to do 750 posts. They've made an excellent start, too -- over the course of the weekend, they've finished about three hundred posts. (Yay!)

If you'd like to help, we still need volunteers. Two people finished their commitments and offered to take on more, but that still leaves us short of the full thousand. More details are in the other post; sign up here or there.

a sort-of best of list...

[littlebutfierce]

I've been slacking off on book blogging in general & to this community in particular--but I thought I'd at least mention some of the more interesting reads from the past year or so.

Links go to my reading blog; the reviews are mostly pretty short but if nothing else, at least this might make more folks aware of the books.

I tried to focus on books &/or authors that I think hadn't already been mentioned here.

• American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods - Bonnie Tsui
  
• Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women - Victoria Law
  
• Short Girls - Bich Minh Nguyen. A novel about two Vietnamese American sisters & their father, an unsuccessful inventor obsessed with what he sees as the disadvantages of being short in US society.
  
• "Lesbians" in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance - Edited by Diana Khor and Saori Kamano
  
• Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture - Angela Y. Davis
  
• Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi Goto. A novel about 3 generations of Japanese women in Canada.
  
• The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin. Spoken word artist Chin's memoir of growing up poor, parentless, mixed-race & queer in Jamaica.
  
• San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement - Estella Habal
  
• The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World - Vijay Prashad
  

(Additional tags: Chinese-American; African-American; creative nonfic; Indian; activism; history; prison; Asian-American; Vietnamese-American; Asian; Japanese-Canadian; Asian-Canadian; memoir; Jamaican; Caribbean; mixed race; Filipino-American; GLBT ... & probably a bunch I missed.)