Next Bold Move

I went w/ Cheyenne yesterday to SOUL's SB 1070 talk. Got to hear from some activists that have been working w/ folks on this issue from within and outside of Arizona. Since I'm probably not going to have a job in about 6 weeks or so I'm thinking about going down there for like a month and doing some serious organizing. They said they need help with outreach, and more people who are willing to put themselves on the line and actually have documentation.

I really just want to experience the kind of organizing I have only ever imagined. It's been a dream of mine, especially after joining OSOF, to organize with a group of radical POC queers. I'd love to get more experience working w/ POC and doing more one-on-one outreach. I'd love to witness the development of a long term strategy resisting this fucked up system. I'd love to see radically inclusive community building not only assumed, but executed, rather than just something that many aspire to do one day. I just, I want to see effective, diverse, radical, sustainable organizing with my own eyes. I want some morsel of hope from knowing that it really does exist and that it is possible in other places too.

I feel like the Bay is my home now. Queer organizing is how I was introduced to the Bay. Since I've stopped doing that organizing I have meet so many down ass POC. And I think that's really fucked up. Since hanging out w/ Moni and meeting some other folks I've gotten really excited about the social POC queer scene... I'm just not sure how to connect that to the kind of organizing I want to do and find an organization or group of people to do it with.

Maybe going to AZ would help to re-charge my batteries. I thought taking this month off would help me to gain perspective, and it has to an extent, but in other ways it has just left me more confused. Maybe I really do need to detach completely from LGBT organizing and just be gone for a while. It would only be for a month or so. I put my name down on a list of folks down to help. I said I could do work here or in AZ. I've got some jobs I want to apply for, because I feel like that's the only honest thing to do. Leaving would also mean subletting my room and all of the complications that would go w/ it... But that would only be after I've had a talk w/ folks in AZ to figure out what me going down there would look like. I've got about 6 weeks to figure out my next move.