Thank you everyone for the nominations! There’s a really amazing group of women here, many of whom I hadn’t heard of before, and I’m so grateful I’ve gotten to learn about them. As of today, nominations for Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade are closed. There are, I know, many amazing queer women the world over that are not included herein (not least because this list is almost entirely made of women from English-speaking countries), deserving of accolades and acknowledgment. But for now, these 43 women will have to do.
Next step is I’m working on the Top 10 list to get the voting poll up. I have a tentative list already, but I want to do them all justice, do more research than what Wikipedia (that bastion of accurate reporting) says about them, and that simply isn’t going to happen overnight. So, while the list is closed to new names, I am open still to lobbying for shortlisting those already on there. Have an opinion? Now’s the time to share it!
I’ll be putting the poll up later this week, and it will be open for two weeks, or until the end of the month, whichever I decide to do that day. (Lobbying also accepted for that.)
I present to you the final nomination list, in rough order of nomination received:
And some paired nominations:
Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone
Gypsey Teague and Marla Roberson
******
To those who read Raising My Boychick for parenting posts: first, this is part of my parenting. I am bisexual, and being openly bisexual and being known to the Boychick as bisexual is very, very important to me. I cannot, nor do I wish to, separate my identity from my activism from my parenting. This? This is how my child will learn that I am a woman, a person separate from him, and have a sexuality that is separate from my love for and commitment to his father. That is huge, and necessary, and I am grateful for this opportunity because of it.
Second, know that I have a post in the first ever Carnival of Natural Parenting coming up this week, as well as a guest post from PhD in Parenting. So not all of January will be about the LBWotD, I promise.
Though I am going to keep on about it, at least until we start to trend on Twitter.
Arwyn
In my bathroom hangs a plaque with a picture of a yin yang and the word BALANCE. I can never get it to hang straight. This probably says something deep and meaningful about my life.
I don’t think I’ve ever been part of an disclaimer before!
Off the top of my head, without reading about every one of these women (although I would LOVE to have the time to do that), my preferences are:
- Ellen: I think her prominence and her wit do TONS for spreading a positive message about being lesbian
- Sook-Yin Lee: Explained here – http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2010/01/lesbian-bisexual-woman-of-the-decade-call-for-publicity/#comment-3453 plus she is non-white
- Sheryl Swoopes: Love her because I play basketball too! Also great athletic, black, female role-model in the LGBT community.
Well done on this, Arwyn!! Just a note: it’s Missy Higgins.
So it is! Fixed it, thanks. It’s what I get for posting at 3am, I suppose!
[...] please drop by Raising Boychick’s to check out the long list for the Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade. The voting will start any day now when a sleek, aerodynamic shortlist goes up. Be it for [...]
[...] Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade — onward to stage two! [...]
[...] Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade — onward to stage two! [...]