Overcoming fears of community
August 1st, 2008 Sassafras <div class=\"postavatar\">
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It’s completely crazy for me to think that I’ve been home from the Queer Spirit Camp for a whole week! It was a really great weekend and everyone there was so sweet and wonderful, the show was great, my storytelling workshop occurred in the most beautiful location I’ve ever taught in, there was a pool, I actually had cell reception the list goes on and on! Also worth mentioning was that one of the men fell in love with my style and on Saturday right before I headed back to the city I was gifted with the most gorgeous 1950’s vintage apron that had belonged to another man’s mother!
It was truly an exceptional day- I then came back home where I was greeted at the train station by my partner holding beautiful flowers, and ze took me home where I discovered that ze had not only in my absence had scrubbed the apartment until It shone, AND made a trip to IKEA on the water taxi and returned (via car service) with a brand new bookcase for our bedroom, which ze had also magically managed to get put together! Did I mention that it was a really exciting weekend? Also exciting was that the experience of being up there with other femme show folks really worked to break down more layers of my own fears about femme community.
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