Tegan03
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I have been into caring since before it was cool. My hometown is Budgewoi in NSW and is a land of many beaches. I'm a vegetarian, an atheist, a socialist and a philosopher...but don't be alarmed, I do still have a sense of humour. I'm into reproductive rights, reconcilliation, secularism in government and schools, education and health.
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Tonight was the fundraising dinner for Inspire. We were raising money to keep the Reach Out live forums open for an extra night. I think we almost reached the set target of half the funding, which was somewhere around $20, 000.
My personal freak out of the evening was my appearance on the panel as a supposed expert on being a young person. Rebecca Huntley and Ian Hickey were both lovely and vivacious, and helped to calm me down a great deal. The topic was "what is your teenager thinking?" and while I think we covered surprisingly little ground on that topic, we did talk about issues facing young people. The panel part of the evening was filmed, so if you're interested I think you can download it from the Inspire website.
What was really great was catching up with a lot of the Reach Out Youth Ambassadors that we rarely see in the office. Thanks guys for a lovely night!
My works in progress at the moment are on issues facing the elderly, and what it means to have a disability. In scrounging round the content, I have found that these two issues represent a bit of a bald spot on our issue coverage. I'm going to put in effort to make sure we have actions and issues related to the elderly, but it would be great if we could get some opinion pieces from someone out there...
I am finally recovered and back in the Actnow office. I'm currently working on an issue page about abortion laws and one on media monopolies. Not to mention catching up on actions and tools! I'm slowing up when it comes to issue pages because my current topics have been tricky to research...no one seems to want to talk about them...
Unfortunately, due to illness, I missed out on meeting the Incubators, so I'd love to get some feedback from any of you on what you did and what it was like!
My articles have been held back a bit because I haven't been well. I'm hopeful that I will be able to work from home a bit as soon as I get some oxygen back to my brain...I'm starting work on reproductive rights as my next issue page.
I have a couple of pages up now, when I can evade the evil monster which is the bug-making machine! There's plenty more to come but I'm struggling with the uploads.
Remember that aside from being the first day of the Incubator weekend, tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate day...so avast ye, and remember to take part!
As you can see, I have managed to get a pic of myself up and to fill in my content now. Nothing that I've written for ActNow has made it to the published stage, but when it is I will have a go at linking it to my profile, so you will know who to blame.
Spring is in the air and I have a beautiful spray of jasmine on my desk which smells divine, so it's very hard to make myself want to write today...I just want to go and play outdoors!
