Tonight in Denver, Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, delivered the annual State of the Movement speech. I was lucky enough to attend the Creating Change Leadership Conference last year and to hear Matt Foreman deliver his final State of the Movement address. Unfortunately, with the move to Cincinnati [...]
Well, I’m home and tucked into bed, although my schedule is thrown off from being in the Central Time Zone and from sleeping on the plane. I just finished reading through my blogs from the last 4 days and I want to summarize some observations about Creating Change, the leading conference on LGBT activist training. [...]
Final day of the Creating Change conference. I’m actually in the Detroit airport at the moment (although I may have to actually post this later, depending on how soon they start boarding) ready to go home. I started this morning with a workshop on Fat-phobia (a.k.a. Sizeism). I wandered in rather skeptical, but left a [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, today was all about the media/communications training. This morning, I attended a workshop on cultural competency in media work. Sadly, I was a little let down by this workshop. It started off well, with some vague but relevant discussion of LGBT issues in the African-American and Spanish language press. Unfortunately, for [...]
Whew, I’m exhausted and there’s still an evening event or two going on. I realize most people will probably find this kind of event recap/processing boring, but for those who don’t, read on… Started the day in a workshop on Internalized Oppression. Great topic, wished we had a bit more structure to it. We were [...]
Today was my first full day at the Creating Change Conference in Detroit. It’s cold here, but there’s no reason to leave the Renaissance Center, so other than my periodic trips to the outdoor smoking area where I can gaze across the river at Canada, the weather doesn’t matter too much. I spent most of the [...]
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