The theme is solidarity
Dang, that’s insulting.
A lesbian conference next week:
The 25th Lesbian Lives Conference will take place in University College Cork, Ireland from 4th-5th March 2022. The LGBT+ Staff Network of University College Cork, in conjunction with the community organisation LINC and scholars from University College Dublin, Cambridge University, and University of Brighton Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender Research, are delighted to host the conference.
Great! Something for women for a change. Well done University College Cork.
The theme for the 2022 Lesbian Lives Conference is Solidarity.
The confirmed Keynote Presenters at the Lesbian Lives 2022 Conference are:
– Professor Susan Stryker, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Institute of LGBT Studies, University of Arizona
Oh. Wait. Susan Stryker is a man.
He’s a man and he’s the first item on the list. They’re importing him all the way from Arizona – for a lesbian conference.
The insults just keep rolling in.
Were I not sick with the coronavirus, I’d make one of my rare outdoor forays just to heckle.
I’m not a lesbian, but I am a woman; and Mr Stryker, whatever his first name, is neither.
Feel better, Tigger!
Thanks, GW.
I did everything humanly possible to avoid catching it, and also got all my vaccines. Ironically, I was supposed to get my second booster shot this week. But I am likely to survive this, which I almost certainly wouldn’t had I caught it a year or two back. It’s seriously unpleasant, anyway. Unlike other household members (also vaccinated and boosted) who caught it and had what amounted to an unpleasant couple of days with a sore throat and headache, I’m feeling ghastly; the symptoms (cough, sneeze, joint ache, headache, sore throat, seemingly leaking fluids from every orifice, brain fog, general misery) have been worsening since the symptoms started last Thursday until this morning, when they abated somewhat, mainly because I gave up trying to do my usual chores.
I took an antigen test on Friday, because a household member had tested positive after getting mild symptos (someone I hadn’t actually interacted with for a while; I tend to stay in my room most of the time, and rarely interact with the other adults in the house except for my husband) and my test was negative. Ironically, the only reason I did another test this morning was because I thought I had bronchitis, and wanted to ring the GP to see whether I needed antibiotics and reassure him I hadn’t caught COVID-19.
tigger, my sympathies. I just got over a ghastly case of pneumonia, which kept me from getting boosted. I had to work from home for a month because the school will not allow me to require my students to mask, even when I have pneumonia and am not boosted, and my classroom is impossible to socially distance in. I am now boosted, recovered from pneumonia (though I still get fatigued at the slightest exertion), and my classes have been moved for the semester to rooms I can socially distance in.
My dad, who is also vaccinated and boosted and wears his mask whenever he is with people (even though he’s a Trumpista, he has sense and trusts his doctor) got COVID. He said if it is less severe with the vaccination, he’d hate to think what it would be like without. Sounds like you are having the same experience. Take care of yourself. We need your cogent comments.
iknklast, thank you for your kind words, and you have my sympathies; pneumonia is no fun at all. My worst bout was when I was in my twenties. I was home alone (hubby working away, and we’d just moved a hundred miles from family) with three tiny children; and couldn’t possibly go to bed and rest. Your workplace sounds like a total nightmare. I’m so glad I’m retired. I just don’t know how I managed to catch COVID-19; I haven’t left the house in over a month, and everyone else was careful. But, evidently, not quite careful enough. This new variant is so infectious that it seems impossible to avoid.
Today the disease feels just like pneumonia. Fortunately, I have my asthma inhalers (the reliever, and the steroid one which my GP just told me to take three times a day instead of twice) and my CPAP, which is keeping the pain of breathing down and my nose clear. It’s a bit awkward wearing it whilst awake, but I’m not going anywhere anyway.