Ive been selected as one top 10 finalists for the The Blogging Scholarship! (Cheese!) I totally need your support in the next 5 days – come vote for me! Winners will be annouced Nov 6th and its $5000.00!!! I SO need this!
– It will only take a few clicks! so VOTE HERE!!!
– You can only vote once from your IP address
– If you have time – please leave a comment about me and my work on the voting page so folks see your support!
– Please tell your friends to support!
– You will go to heaven (or afterlife place of choice) for your love a grad student
– Here are the other contestant blogs . Some amazing work. All of us are different and everyone is strong.
Ya’ll know I’m in grad school, tryin to finish up my work, trying to balance all of the work I do – writing, theatre production, research, speaking, workshops, all my multi-media projects, teaching and support of my students! I could SO use this funding to assist me this semester!! I’m broke and always at the end of semesters its a struggle to pay bills, eat and get simple things like toilet paper!!!
Thanks for voting for me!!!
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If you care – Here’s what I wrote for my application:
I began “A Birth Project” over a year ago with specific goals. As it reads on my blog, “This blog began with a two-pronged focus: One – my personal search for my birth parents and Two – as a place to consider my experiences as a Black girl adopted by white parents, or ‘my life as a TRA’” (transracial adoptee).
I had no idea that my writing would connect me with a powerful group of transracial adoptees, adoption activists, scholars and performers. This connection became central to how the blog evolved. I post and comment on current news stories, post my own struggles continuing to let the world see my own search and reunion process as I find ‘parts of me’ that I never knew existed.
The most profound impact the blog/blogosphere has had on me is first, I have found support from an online community of transracial adoptees from all races and cultural backgrounds. Women and men from across the globe have written me personal, painful emails, thanking me for being vocal about my experiences and have given me love for saying things they always felt, but either were afraid to speak or could not articulate. Second, I was inspired to create an international non-profit organization “Adult Adoptees of the African Diaspora”. AAAD brings together adult adoptees of African descent across the globe and provide support, research and outreach for this widespread population. We hope our voices add to the strong voices of Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese transracial and international adoptees. Many TRA’s are isolated, the only person of color for miles, forced to struggle against uneducated assumptions about skin color or culture. This organization provides comfort and strength to a TRA who may be alone in her or his town. I hope my blog continues to do the same.
A Birth Project 
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Just learned about this blog from that post — and wow, what a powerful blog. You have my vote!
I voted for you! Hey, your a grad student (I’m finishing up my bachelors), and since toilet paper is, after all, a necessity, good luck!
I’m voting for you. Good luck!
Thanks for all the love you guys! Man I’ve gotten so much love and great comments that I know if it were just about the power of my friends, I would have this in the BAG! too bad the whole thing is turning out to be based on readership numbers. arrrgh.
But you all have reminded me why I ‘do what I do’. Thanks for the love. for reals. Here’s to another year!
I voted for you, too! And I need to respond to your e-mail so we can set up a phone date–will do soon!
Hey, just to let you know I also stumbled onto this and voted for you too. Good luck!