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soc_puppetBack from the con, and I just wanted to share a few quick Accessibility Department victory moment things:
1) Lots of people being totally jazzed about the services we offer, particularly the Accessibility Pass and the ability to take a person of your choice with you to skip lines (though also lots of people only just learning about said pass, which means I need to do a better job of advertising)
2) A "Cosplay For Spoonies" panel! It had some really good advice in general, and some that I am definitely going to steal for future Accessibility Department stuff
3) Okay, tonight, when we were basically all packed up and the pizza had just shown up for our "Thank god the con is over and we survived, yay!" party? One of my fellow staffers told me about a conversation he had with someone else, who was not only delighted by everything that AnimeIowa was doing to be accessible, but was planning on taking the evidence of our con being accessible to a rival con and tearing strips off their concom/convention executives/the people in charge of it for not being nearly as good and I just. For a department of two people, with the person in charge being completely self-trained and often having eir butt kicked by executive dysfunction... Yeah. I definitely did a tiny little victory dance.
I am sooooooo looking forward to making things even better next year ♥
1) Lots of people being totally jazzed about the services we offer, particularly the Accessibility Pass and the ability to take a person of your choice with you to skip lines (though also lots of people only just learning about said pass, which means I need to do a better job of advertising)
2) A "Cosplay For Spoonies" panel! It had some really good advice in general, and some that I am definitely going to steal for future Accessibility Department stuff
3) Okay, tonight, when we were basically all packed up and the pizza had just shown up for our "Thank god the con is over and we survived, yay!" party? One of my fellow staffers told me about a conversation he had with someone else, who was not only delighted by everything that AnimeIowa was doing to be accessible, but was planning on taking the evidence of our con being accessible to a rival con and tearing strips off their concom/convention executives/the people in charge of it for not being nearly as good and I just. For a department of two people, with the person in charge being completely self-trained and often having eir butt kicked by executive dysfunction... Yeah. I definitely did a tiny little victory dance.
I am sooooooo looking forward to making things even better next year ♥
Re: I support this choice
Date: 2021-08-02 11:52 pm (UTC)Mostly, my emotional reaction is sad 😢 /frustrated 😤. Because I think I'm only one of a few people left who remember her, but if I'm the one to edit the Wikipedia article about the festival, it would be rejected, because I'm "too close to the subject".
The folding of history and events into a conceptual zip file of "The Great Man", so to speak, is a tendency I've noticed in Leftist adjacent spaces (such as the neo-Pagan movement, for example -- trying to claim an unbroken thread of worship dating back to the Cave Paintings of Lascaux, among other things). I think that tendency got magnified after Pete Seeger died in 2014.
I can't help but wonder if I stayed in New York State, where Clearwater is based, and stayed involved in the organization, or at least stayed on the mailing list, and showed up at one of the sloop club's monthly potlucks now and then, she might be remembered there more publicly. But I moved to Virginia 25 years ago because the landscape and the climate is more wheelchair friendly.
I learned a few years ago that she had a whole branch of her family living in the same town where I lived during the first 6 years of my life, and I never knew they even existed. For whatever reason, it seems that Mother cut herself off from them completely. I have my suspicions as to why, but of course, they can only be guesses.