This week’s report will likely read as a bit scattered, as the first week is gathering up information and writing ILCs, putting together websites, and figuring out what all is going to really happen over the quarter.
I’ve spent the week talking with my internship supervisor about the quarter and the places that I might be useful to planning events and programs. At the moment I’m thinking I might be helping with coordination or planning, or at least planning for some individual events for Trans and Queer week, and perhaps helping out on the Lavender Grad planning as well. I’ve been talking with another student leader about a few more individual projects that we want to see happen at the college or at the Trans and Queer Center. I think my next move in terms of internship is contacting a couple groups that lead workshops on consent or other sex education topics, to see what it takes to get those kinds of groups to come and speak.
I’ve also been figuring out some books that I can read from over the quarter. I tend to plan for reading more than I end up doing, so I’ve found quite a few books that look interesting to various parts of my ILC.
I’ve spent some time now designing my website portfolio as well now, which for me means mostly changing the color and creating and image to put in the side panel. I’ve changed a few of the menus around to fit my project more closely, and I’ve renamed the categories and hidden the template posts.
Another big thing that happened for me this last week was attending the Students of Color Summit at Central Washington University with some of our GSU representatives. There were a lot of topics discussed, and a lot of really interesting and powerful speakers and awesome workshops. My favorite speaker was one of the keynotes, Dominique Christina, whose words were incredibly powerful and moving. I’m really glad I was more or less in the right place at the right time to get to attend.