Some thoughts about inclusion and exclusion

When we find ourselves wondering "where the people are", how should we say? How should we present it? Shit, how should we check ourselves?

I seem to have a knack for always coming to the first meeting of (fill in the blank) at the most inappropriate moment. It must be the scorpio in me. I step in when drama is in the vicinity even au natural.

If gender is a construction, which I believe it to be...what we do when we hear X (stereotypically speaking whom happens to "pass" as nongenderqueer straight chick on the street) asking where the trans people are??? Nevermind that A, B, C (all stereotypically put are obviously genderfucking in some way, to me) are in the room. It seems so dismissive to be like "well, there aren't enough??!!!" What the hell does that mean? My skin crawls and feeds off it-the way that language is so limiting and defeating and beautiful in that way. We live in a perpetual state of the game telephone.

But, I think we should check ourselves or rather that we should allow ourselves to be checked. How else can anything overcome? I think she has a lot to offer and since it seems I am somehow automatically working in this "community building" subcommittee...perhaps I should say something soon to her before the momentum is gone.

What? I have no idea. I kinda believe in the whole kill with kindness effort right now. I think that it's the best way to be proactive even if you just feel like kicking someone's ass.

Inclusion/Exclusion...all tricky. No safe space exists in my view. And, if it does...it's invisible. You have to push yourself to work outside that paradigm. We have to not be afraid to work with another.

"I know the latinas have a tendency to dominate the space". That was another one that I think if I was that girl, I would have rolled my eyes. What does that mean anyway? Maybe that was discussed b4 I came? Nonetheless, I think that's a hilarious statement.

I have a lot of hope in La La Land right now. I am putting my tofu scramble non-eggs in this basket. It seems to be worth it.