Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference
I’ve just returned from the International Foundation for Gender Education’s annual conference that was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. A speaker on the very first day said “If you let it, this conference will change you.” Even though this was my first conference, the skeptic in me heard a sales pitch being thrown. “Maybe some other people buy that stuff, but not me”, I told myself. Most of the conference is spent in workshops (the full list here), but there were also three luncheons, three outings, and the Gala Banquet. Three workshops really impacted me. The first workshop I attended was Pauline Park‘s “Making Diversity Real: Transgendered People of Color & the…
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