Youth have as much to say in activism as you do!
I'm very irked how conferences are treating their student attendees right now.
Like this conference I'm going to up in Austin this weekend?
It's to empower youth in doing activism within their own communities.
I was asked to do a lunch panel for this conference and talk of how my activist group worked on reproductive justice in our community. I was happy to do it and I was making a 10-15 minute power point presentation around that. Each of us panelists are to do presentations around that time.
And then we were notified that the conference decided to shorten this to only 5 minutes this week and I'm so upset!
For one, I spent a week on this power point! The second one is that they are shitting on young people by not letting any of us, not just the panel, but all of us not have a chance to share our thoughts and our struggles and our accomplishments and I have seen this happen again and again!
Like, god, why the hell do you want to get an audience of young people when you're not going to let them fucking speak?!
Mark my words, the people on the conference are going to be surprised to why the students' eyes will glaze over here or get antsy there and not GET THAT YOU ARE NOT LETTING THEM EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
It is so frustrating to see this behavior go on from organizations again and again.
On a lighter note, I'm addicting to buying those moleskin books from Barnes and Noble and I just bought a Marion Zimmer Bradley book and a Rainer Maria Rilke colllection of poetry.