You know, I should know better than to check my email on vacation. And its too long a story to explain fully in a blog post, having to do with a large well known gay organization from a large coastal city in Ecuador, coming to Cuenca and doing a song and dance about organizational strengthening for the GLBT community but really just wanting to fill their numbers for their funder in their project on HIV prevention. So when we send mixed group of leaders to their seminar they say, oh no, its only for men, because its a project for prevention with gay men. But if they want to strengthen gay, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender communities, being as GLBT is the operative acronym in wide use, um, everwhere, you need to pay attention to the Lesbians, at the very least. I mean at least let us include a lesbian in our strategic planning weekend. Jeez.
Folks, never take the feminist movement for granted. You do not know how much you will miss it, till you start working with people who have no freaking clue what you are talking about. People who believe an appropriate intervention in homofobia is to educate women so they can raise their sons to be less homofobic.
And no I am not making this up.
1 comment:
claudia, you'll be glad to know i cherish the feminist movement. every. freakin. day.
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