Announcement: new editor of Anti-Racist Parent
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m happy to announce that starting today, Tami Winfrey Harris will be Editor of Anti-Racist Parent!
Tami has done a phenomenal job of exploring the way race impacts our personal and family lives: from discussing challenges to racial legitimacy to Eurocentric standards of beauty, from talking (or not talking) about racism to teaching diversity.
I’ll still be around of course, but I’ll be less involved in the day-to-day operations of the blog.
Here’s a bit more about Tami:
Tami Winfrey Harris is a freelance writer and public relations professional living with her husband, stepson and a menagerie of critters in the Midwest. She blogs about race, gender, politics and life at What Tami Said, and is a frequent guest contributor to other blogs, including Racialicious. She hosts an annual Women’s History Month blog carnival in collaboration with the blog, Women’s Space.
And here are a few thoughts from Tami:
“When I began writing on the Internet, I didn’t expect to spend so much time discussing race. Like any person of color, race and racism (and their intersection with a bunch of other “isms”) have been constant influences on my life. So constant, that I began to see my marginalized place as unremarkable, nothing to talk about. But man, once I wrote that first post, it was on. I have written a lot about my experiences being “the only,” as in the only black person in the classroom, the dorm room and the boardroom; as well as the “not-black-enough” girl. Today, I am raising my stepson, the product of a segregated urban environment, in a smallish town with negligible diversity. My nieces and nephew live here, too. They are always “the only” and no-doubt someday will be “not black enough.” Add to my daily life the racial sturm und drang of this political season, and I’ve found a lot to discuss and dissect.
We all have a lot to discuss and dissect. I don’t promise any answers. I’m feeling my way like anyone else. But I look forward to guiding discussion on ARP of how race and racism affect our families and our children.”
Please join me in congratulating Tami! I know that she’ll do a great job and make Anti-Racist Parent an even more vibrant community!
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Mayhem wrote:
Congratulations, Tami! I am a faithful reader of “What Tami Said” and I’m looking forward to your work here!
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 10:48 am ¶
Jae Ran wrote:
Congratulations, Tami, you’ll do a great job as editor of ARP.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 11:33 am ¶
Jo wrote:
Another Tami devotee here – congratulations Tami, you’re going to do a fantastic job!
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:08 pm ¶
Paula O. wrote:
Congratulations, Tami!! This is awesome news for the ARP community!!
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:10 pm ¶
Yoli wrote:
Congratulations and welcome, Tami. Carmen I hope to see you around too!
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:55 pm ¶
Yoli wrote:
Congratulations and welcome, Tami! Carmen I hope to see you around too. You have done a wonderful job.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:57 pm ¶
knowgoodwhitepeople wrote:
Welcome Tami. I am enjoying What TamiSaid and I look forward to your perspective here at ARP.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 3:14 pm ¶
Liza wrote:
Congrats and welcome, Tami!
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 10:26 pm ¶
rosezar wrote:
Congratulations and welcome
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 8:36 am ¶
BCmomtobe wrote:
Welcome Tami. I have enjoyed reading your posts, and I think you’ll do a great job as editor.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 3:26 pm ¶
erika wrote:
happy to you..
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 4:55 am ¶
Veronica wrote:
Congrats!!
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 9:39 pm ¶
slackermom wrote:
welcome and congrats!
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 10:20 pm ¶
Shaping Youth wrote:
Welcome, Tami, we’d love to hear from you on Shaping Youth, too…(Carmen’s on my advisory board, and I love that she’s ‘passing the baton’ with confidence to free herself from daily ops…now if I could only find a ‘Tami’ to spell me now & then!
Any time you or any of the ARP contributors feel you have a relevant post re: media & marketing’s impact on kids I’d love to see it…so fire away!
Best of luck in your new role, congrats!
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 11:40 pm ¶
thepurplemama wrote:
Congratulations, Tami! I just found both of these blogs about six weeks ago and I enjoy them. Best of luck to you here at ARP.
Posted 08 Jun 2008 at 12:24 am ¶