Oh, no they weren't at all. But a lot of those concerns were addressed. The handout thing...I didn't even go there because so many of the organizers and board members are over 50 and tend to be traditionally binary and don't understand all this academic stuff about privilege and so on. I just didn't want my intentions to be misread as bashing the conference as a whole and I didn't want it to go that route. The environment of it is supportive and I definitely plan to go back next year and there are a lot of people who feel similarly wrt privilege and gender expression and not stigmatizing sex workers and so on.
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