Mine Eyes Have Seen the Light

by Michael Bear · 2009-10-23 08:00:00 UTC
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Michelle asked me for a guest post on Darfur -- I agreed. And now I'm doing something rather underhanded; the classic bait and switch. This guest post won't be about Darfur at all. Partially because I don't have anything particularly new or interesting to say about Darfur.

And mostly because there's something else I'd much rather say.

Namely, thank you. To Michelle. And hopefully, because this is my guest blog, she'll feel duty-bound to post it. No matter how embarrassed she might be.

I'm a google reader junkie --  I get more RSS feeds than I know what to do with. All the relevant humanitarian blogs, articles from Reliefweb and IRIN, and yet still I rely on Michelle for somewhere upwards of 90% of all my Darfur news in particular, and genocide news more broadly.

It's not easy to blog every day, especially when you're blogging about such a difficult topic. It's even harder to collate and aggregate a massive amount of information, and make it easily accessible. If that was all that Michelle did with Stop Genocide, it would be more than enough.

Even more, though, I'd like to take this rather public forum to thank Michelle for changing my mind -- about the power and potential of advocacy movements, about the importance of addressing justice when discussing peace.

We've rumbled, and I can't think of any blogging I've enjoyed more. She's also funnier than I am. Which is painful to admit, but true. (For instance, she came up with the vast majority of our joint e-cards to dictators. My contributions were somewhat lacking.)

So, here's to Michelle. The best damn genocide-mass atrocity-crimes against humanity-Darfur blogger around.

Michael Bear
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