Dyssonance

So this morning I attended a few of the elements surrounding the trans community, checking in a few things about how they were approaching it.  Gunner Scott does an awesome job in these sort of things and it was a really strong seminar.

I drifted out of that at lunch time and floated around a bit, running into a couple of guys that I shared lunch with before checking in on a couple more segments.

The marriage segment was interesting, but I was sorta upset there wasn’t much mention or inclusion of trans issues, but lunch gave me an opportunity to talk with someone involved in that effort about remembering us — that’s a big deal in terms of  one of the benefits here — people are approachable here at CC10, and for trans folk, that’s killer.

Visibility here is awesome — the full reach of our community is actually something you can see here — its not merely the gay guys in power or the power elite in their palaces.   Ther are Black mormon LGBT folks trying to figure out how to reach their fellow people for support and good stuff; there’s an entire track regarding disability related efforts within and without, as well as religious and ethnic segments that, truly, if you were in one you could see how its helping people to talk concrete terms and goals and get good advice and involvement from others on best practices and new creative approaches.

And there’s a lot of people who don’t read and don’t understand the phenomenon that it blogging, and how things like mommy bloggers can have a huge impact on their ability to get a message about their social services out in the public.

Contacts are good here — you meet people that are working towards the same things who often feel like they are left out of everything and ignored, and now they learn that there are other people in the same boat.

Good Questions in this session I’m in right now, the New Media Training Institute.  They are thinking and considering Trans folk and folks with disabilites and more in the very conversations and seeing how this whole internet thing can be of value to them.

Lots of light bulbs going off here, and you can see it happening.

More updates later

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