Thank you to @pushthequorumbutton for this lovely @craftexchange ! I'm really excited to use the handmade paper - considering trying to figure out a painting on the circle one!
An update on our equality and diversity policy following the Supreme Court decision of April 2025
So I have things to say about this. I am Canadian, and this doesn't affect us, but I was part of this organization for 13 years in the Canadian branch.
When I was around 16, I was in Rangers, at a camp. I remember sitting there with the younger girls, and one girl in that group coming out as gay and polyamorous.
I remember being so happy. My parents are polyamorous (me too, I didn't know that then), and I identified as bi (now pan). So did my mom.
I talked about it too. I talked about my experiences. I shared and made connection.
Later I was dragged into the kitchen by one of the leaders of my Ranger group. She told me talking about being gay was too mature for the younger girls and I shouldn't talk about it. That it wasn't a conversation I could have.
That night I remember sitting in my sleeping bag, listening to the other girls in my Ranger unit. They were playing a very adult game of never have I ever. I remember sitting there wondering why that was okay, but me being gay wasn't.
After I left Girl Guides, in part because of that experience, I wanted things to get better. I was happy when we began to include trans women - it was a much further step than the silence I was forced into.
And now, they're going backwards again.
This is exclusion disguised as inclusion. This is harm disguised as protection. If you're a trans young girl, now you can't go to boy scouts or girl guides - it's unsafe in both.
And I fear we will continue sliding backwards into the not so long ago days of MY youth. When grace was said at meetings, when queerness was silenced.
I decided to make myself an Advent calendar out of fibre, most of which is a sampler pack. I have 7 bags plus some extra cream, and I'm spinning one every few days so I can make a cowl on Christmas.
Here's bag one! It turned out so squishy and I'm excited to spin the rest of them!
My goodness, we've managed to miss Saturday entirely! Fortunately rules are fake and I do what I want, so welcome back to Show and Tell Saturday Sunday :) What's new in your world this week?
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