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I am heading off to Victoria for the BC-CFS SAGM. I remember the last one in Nanaimo in January.
Unready and new: twelve days on the job; too much classwork; having just pushed the very public switch to my transitional name.
Throwing together a delegation after two folks scrubbed out at the last minute; constantly relying on two experienced members; alcohol and walking out to Tim Horton's at two in the morning.
Paranoia: sleeping arrangements arranged with six people and four beds and one of them is there to keep an eye on us; personal belongings going missing and some coming back right away, with the laptop coming... later.
A progressively colder environment: silence and snubbing in the hallways; subtly rude behaviour at women's caucus; sharp words to deviation from the party line.
Confidence: so this is what groupthink looks like; coming back with a new set of pronouns; having a new sense of purpose.
It's seven months later now. I'm ready and savvy. There are a hell of a lot of politics and interesting motions on the table - two of them mine.
Let's see what happens.
Unready and new: twelve days on the job; too much classwork; having just pushed the very public switch to my transitional name.
Throwing together a delegation after two folks scrubbed out at the last minute; constantly relying on two experienced members; alcohol and walking out to Tim Horton's at two in the morning.
Paranoia: sleeping arrangements arranged with six people and four beds and one of them is there to keep an eye on us; personal belongings going missing and some coming back right away, with the laptop coming... later.
A progressively colder environment: silence and snubbing in the hallways; subtly rude behaviour at women's caucus; sharp words to deviation from the party line.
Confidence: so this is what groupthink looks like; coming back with a new set of pronouns; having a new sense of purpose.
It's seven months later now. I'm ready and savvy. There are a hell of a lot of politics and interesting motions on the table - two of them mine.
Let's see what happens.