Thinking Blogger Awards
Moomin Light kindly awarded me a Thinking Blogger award. Here are the rules:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
It’s tough to single out five blogs. I’m going to try to hit ones that I don’t think I’ve seen nominated already.
Black Looks has several women blogging about African and African Diaspora issues. Recent topics have included the Nigerian elections (which, by the way, resulted in a victory for the governing party, but with widespread complaints and some calls to cancel the results), attacks by militants on Nigerian oil fields, Imus, ex-gay advocacy among African-Americans, and one poster’s trip to South Africa.
Drima, the Sudanese Thinker blogs mostly about Darfur and Sudanese culture.
It’s hard to single out any of my fellow Quaker bloggers (and I don’t want to fill my list with all of them – see QuakerQuaker.org for a fuller list). But I think I’ll pick Johan Maurer, a Quaker pastor who blogs every Fifth Day (Quakerese for what the rest of you call Thursday). This weekly posting schedule gives him a chance to write long and thoughtful posts on Quaker faith and practice.
Christy’s Dry Bones Dance, subtitled “Musings of a save the world junkie on an indefinite sabbatical,” is a cool blog about topics such as faith, resurrection, tree-hugging, and the aftermath of sexual abuse. Among other things.
The Well-Timed Period is an ob/gyn blog, with lots of information on birth control, regulating your menstrual cycle if you don’t want the one nature gave you, and other ob/gyn issues.
I’m also going to follow Moomin Light’s bad example 
of breaking the rules, and nominate my husband, Joel, who blogs about mental health issues, living with bipolar disorder, nature, and whatever else takes his fancy. As well as being my best source of funny cat videos.
I passed on Afrigadget mainly because they haven’t been updating a lot lately, but I have to point out this one post: African Children’s Toys: Ingenuity Starts at a Young Age. Check out some of the toys African children have made for themselves.
UPDATE: Turns out I can stick to the rules and only pick five, because Joel’s got his very own, legitimately given by someone other than his wife, Thinking Blogger award.