the new writer

the new writer.

Recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) estimates that there are presently 781 million illiterate adults in the world, about 64 percent of whom are women!!! And in some regions of the world, nearly half of all women are reported to be illiterate.

UIS estimates also show that:

Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults live in only nine countries,
and 45 percent of the world's illiterate adults live in India and China (34
percent and 11 percent respectively).  Globally, 82 percent of the world's
population is reported as literate: 87 percent of men and 77 percent of all
women.  Extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South
and West Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab States, where only about six in
10 adults are considered literate: around two-thirds of men and only half of
women.  In contrast, Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia and the
Pacific have literacy rates around 90 percent, for both men and women. Yet these
regions combined account for 22 percent of the world's illiterate population.

http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/international/intro.html

THE NEW WRITER: she isn't concerned with periods because her thoughts dont stop or drop at the end of a sentence commas matter when nessacary. you decide when it is nessacary she Capitalizes on occasion, only when she means it she constantly misspells--but finds peopel stil undarstan hir she tries 2 condense ideas--the shorter the sentence the more potent the thought..All the while creating, inventing, digesting, growing, learning and sharing.

if you cannot understand written language, the challenges you face are innumerable. my life is about language--preservation, understanding and communicating. how to combat illiteracy is exhausting. my work at the Norris Square Community Center of North Philadelphia (http://www.nsnp.com/) showed me first hand the problems facing people of all ages and backgrounds right here in the United States, a land filled with educational opportunities. consider areas in South America and Africa without such advantages.

i think there is a movement going on right now of NEW WRITERS. writers who are socially concious and socially involved. writers who desire a better world and project that through their work. writers who arent utopic but realistic and headstrong. writers who say fuck the rules and create their own. i am part of the school of NEW WRITERS and classes are going on all over the country, in universities and in parks, in basements and in journals--the NEW WRITERS are coming 2 help.

For further information on literacy, as well as education, I found this interesting and intellectual webblog which has entries dating back to 1999. whoa dude, 1999, like mad old yo.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/