Comments for LGBTI Health Summit '07 reflections

Comment on T-shirts by Tom Aloisi

Tom Aloisi — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:23:45 +0000

I heard about these shirts from Jeff. Great idea! You’re looking ‘fine’ by the way!!

Comment on “Community-driven” vs. DOH by Tom Aloisi

Tom Aloisi — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:57:18 +0000

And remember, it was those of us at DOH who funded so many scholarships to the early summits, and also funded the Diversity Health Project at the community center!

Comment on Queer Disability Resources by Knoll

Knoll — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:43:08 +0000

Hey nice conference Blog! The politics of access is something we all could think more about. Thanks for posting these resources.

Comment on Queer Disability Resources by Bill J

Bill J — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:00:36 +0000

Thanks for providing these resources. On the workshop proposal review committee calls, we knew we were falling short on workshops dealing with disability issues. Any effort to raise the profile of these issues and to make the next one more accessible is helpful. I hope that whoever organizes the next one takes advantage of the fact that you have collected these resources here to draw from.

Comment on Last Day by Bill

Bill — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:42:10 +0000

Hi Samuel, It was nice to connect a bit at the Summit – hopefully more coming soon.
I agree that the small-group work that is so crucial for people to really be able to grapple with ideas was missing. And I feel somewhat personally responsible for that. I’m not taking it all on my shoulders, but I think that as the chair of the workshop review committee, I had an opportunity to really stress the importance of using small groups. I did send out that as one of twenty or so suggestions for “how to make a workshop great”, but I think it was such a long document (2-3pp) that most presenters didn’t really read it at all.
We talked extensively about whether or not to model small group work at the opening plenary, but in the end decided not to, we were afraid that we would have too little time to do it well – a fear that turned out to be well grounded. But, I do have to wonder how it might have shifted the Summit (even just a little bit) if we had taken that approach.

Thanks for all your writing – it helped me keep in mind things from the Summit that would otherwise be slipping away!
-Bill J

Comment on Last Day by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:08:26 +0000

Comment on Sister Blessings by Denise

Denise — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:41:01 +0000

Hi Samuel-

Just read through the blog. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Looks like it was a great conference.

See you soon,
Denise

Comment on Sister Blessings by Eli

Eli — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:19:04 +0000

Thank you, love.

Comment on Serenity Therapy by Kathy Desilets

Kathy Desilets — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:52:02 +0000

In reading this, I think about the issue of class acceptance with these relaxation methods. Among people from my working class upbringing would call them “silly’ and I think at the same time that there is some fear of loss of control.

Is this related to “risk” or to smoking. I think that even though there is way in which many ways of the working-class or poor folks lifestyles that are risky – every health risk tha I know about is worse with poor folks – there is a kind of comfort in these “risky” behaviors – bad food, smoking, drinking, drugs…

One of my sisters has Hep C, but she lives with an abusive boyfriend and drinks. So there’s kind of a weird intersection between fear and risky comforts.

Comment on Opening Plenary: “Bodies, Health, Gender and the Future” by Diego

Diego — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:22:27 +0000

Samuel, hey bud. Thanks for blogging so that we who are not there can know what’s happening. It helps us think, too. Check this out. Diego
http://blog.aac.org/index.php/2007/03/15/save-march-madness-for-basketball-recognizing-medical-school-match-day-march-15/Diego