hearing a transman validate my identity as a genderqueer person was probably the most affirming experience of the entire weekend.
you learn so much more from informal interactions with your peers than you do in any workshop.
my journey this year is focused on the telling of stories.
sleep is optional, but beneficial.
being 21 often just gives you new and more expensive places to be bored.
the intersectionality of identities is one of the most important things we ignore.
if all of the people who were in Denver this weekend as part of this movement can keep the energy that was present during the plenary sessions, particularly the first and last, Change is Coming and there is nothing they can do about it!! however, speaking from experience, it's hard to keep that energy for very long.
every time i go to Creating Change, i leave with some new concept of my identity. this year, i think that concept is that i need to keep thinking about it. i have a need to articulate my identity, and maybe that's what i need to work on: labels aren't (shouldn't be?) as important as we make them.
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Yes to intersectionality, yes to identity validation, yes to learning from your peers, heck yes to sleep being optional. There are so many things I agree with in this post, but one that particularly struck me was the incredible energy that results from like-minded people coming together to "create change". That energy is extremely difficult to maintain once you return from a conference, but if you can remember what it felt like, you can still keep and use it for the future.
~B.
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