The interview that I recently did was posted on the CC14 website today. Here's a taste of it.
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Creating Change: What are the 3 biggest learnings/discoveries/takeaways you have gleaned from the Creating Change Conference(s) you’ve attended?
Monica Roberts: The first discovery is that Creating Change is an amazingly diverse event with people there from 18-80.
It is the place to be if you want to meet people in the LGBT movement and acquire the knowledge base and skills necessary to become an effective activist.
The worst time to commit a discriminatory act against a member of the LGBT community is when Creating Change is in town. The transphobic disrespecting of a transfeminine Creating Change attendee and her friends by the Oakland Police Department in front of our convention hotel led to a protest march and use of the advocacy tactics we’d been learning in a real world situation.
Creating Change: What motivated you to volunteer to serve on the Creating Change Organizing committee?
Monica Roberts: I’m very proud of my hometown and wanted to be part of the team organizing the first Creating Change to take place in Houston. I also believed it was important for me to do so as a past attendee and a longtime African-American trans leader from this city.
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You can read the rest of what I had to say by following this link to the Creating Change 2014 website.
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