[LGBTsanctuary] Questions

[Sissel Bridges]

Thank you this is very helpful.  I will make sure there is printed e-mail slips to LGBTsanctuary to give to those who specifically are asking for Trans help and support.
Sissel

All the best,   Sissel Bridges  M.Sc.-CPC-LMT-LDM-CAM-CSHH Wellness Coach / Massage Therapist  SisselBridges at aol.com   Life Coach - Norwegian Health @ Wellness LLC  Searching for Life Balance?   Is there a gap between where you are  and where you want to be?   As a Wellness Coach, I can help you Bridge the Gap! 

    On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 11:05:14 AM EST, sally at pctraining.net <sally at pctraining.net> wrote:   

 
Very helpful. Thank you for the update. Please keep us in the loop. I understand about wanting to be under the radar. We can certainly provide the email address to interested parties—maybe we should have some slips of paper with the address on it to hand to people if asked.

Sally

  

From: Joanie <joancparker at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 10:43 AM
To: sally at pctraining.net
Cc: LGBTSanctuary at uuaa.org; Sissel Bridges <sissely at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [LGBTsanctuary] Questions

  

Hi Sissel and Sally. Here's the situation around the Trans work.  It started as a consortium of groups - maybe three groups - with a coordinating team (Arika, Kel, Lorne, Joanie)  - which we've been calling "LGBT Sanctuary".  It is sort of becoming a team of it's own since the work is fast-paced with close-hold information.  We put together an email address so people could find us, but now are having second thoughts about the name because publishing anything that can be found on the website with the word "sanctuary" may cause UUAA to be targeted and monitored by dark forces. So...we have to work through those issues. Until we have a more ambiguous name, we don't want to have it published (in the Social Justice flyer or on the website).  

  

One of the reasons for the Sanctuary Town Hall on Saturday is to communicate with interested people face-to-face without publishing anything. We'll talk about security issues there, and solicit ideas on how we can share information and get people who want to participate tied in safely.  Just as an example, the IAC group (which has the name "immigration" but not "sanctuary") is going to keep their name, but they have instituted a policy that at least two people need to vouch for a newcomer before they are given the information about how to attend IAC meetings.  Bob Hospadaruk is taking the lead on the vetting process. AND they have taken their meetings off the UUAA calendar. 

  

So...two ideas spring to mind for the Trans work.  First, if people approach anyone at the Social Justice Council or Vision Support Committee, both can direct them onward to the general LGBTsanctuary at uuaa.org email, and then we'll take it from there to vet them. (That keeps individuals' names out of it until we know who we're dealing with.)  And it would be good to have information about this work at the Social Justice Council table.  Our little coordinating team can meet and figure out what makes sense for that.  Would that work?  

  

To answer your other questions: this is definitely a Social Justice effort.  And Lorne can weigh in with more information, but I hear that Kaleidoscope is re-awakening it's Social Justice side under his leadership, while it remains primarily a Social/Identity/Spiritual group.  (Lorne, is this right?)

  

Is this helpful, Sally and Sissel?

Cheers - Joanie

  

  

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM <sally at pctraining.net> wrote:


Hi Lorne,

This is Sally Preston, co-chair of the Social Justice Council, along with Sissel Bridges. From the email you sent to Sissel, I see that a new group has formed. Is this a social justice group? Or social identity group? We will be redoing the Social Justice brochure in the next few weeks and need to know if this LGBTSanctuary group should be included? Who did you work with at the church to get your own email address? I am attaching a copy of the current brochure so you can get an idea of which groups are included. Do you know if Kaleidoscope now considers itself as a social identity group? 

 

Thanks for keeping us posted.

Sally Preston

 

-- 
LGBTsanctuary mailing list
LGBTsanctuary at uuaa.org
http://uuaa.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbtsanctuary_uuaa.org

  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://uuaa.org/pipermail/lgbtsanctuary_uuaa.org/attachments/20250204/01722250/attachment.htm>