APW: volunteer idea, decidin to be more active w fat-positivity / date w Arizona / ritual w Serenity

[belenen]

icon: "spiritual (a photo of a snow leopard with (edited) violet eyes staring straight into the camera)"So, I went to Atlanta Poly Weekend (APW) yesterday and today, and had intended to go to all of it but I've discovered that even though the anxiety meds help enough to keep me from spiraling into negativity from not being able to interact, they

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[wantedonvoyage]

I tend to think of self-work as 'fluffy' or less important but it isn't. People need self-love to survive oppression, and we need oppressed people to survive or we cannot destroy the system.

I agree whole-heartedly... one of the main reasons I had to get out of the activism I was doing was there were so many folks with unchecked damage flailing around. They didn't realize they were harming as many people as they were helping.

[belenen]

*nodnodnod* I know exactly what you mean. There is so much trauma we endure, and if we're not careful we hurt each other with our broken edges.

[ragnarok_08]

People need self-love to survive oppression, and we need oppressed people to survive or we cannot destroy the system.

That's very true.

[belenen]

<3

[belenen]

I found it so wonderfully helpful at TBC.

[belenen]

*nods eagerly* yes, I found it so helpful at TBC -- even on days I didn't go there, just knowing that I COULD made it all less draining.

[slipjig]

Things I would definitely do include setting aside a quiet non-interaction space for anxious folk to take a break because fuck did I miss that.

This is brilliant! I think I might bring this up with the folks behind Arisia, my one never-miss-it con, because I'm kind of amazed that I haven't seen it before (aside from an aftercare room at a very well-run kink convention a few years ago).

[belenen]

*nods* I know several TBC people who also go to Arisia! I've never been, because one round-trip flight a year is hard enough for me to manage cost-wise. I've heard great things though.