Weeknotes — 18 July
📌 After an exciting, but very busy, couple of weeks of events and meetings, it’s been nice to have a little quiet time at work this week. I processed the feedback on our Ignite mid-programme event and did some thinking and planning for the various streams of work I’m involved in.
📌 On Tuesday, I went to an EDI Community of Practice meeting. The main topic on the agenda was hate crime and reporting. One of the things I’m most proud of in my career is the work I did on the ‘All Wales Hate Crime Research Project’. So it was very interesting to revisit and discuss this issue again with colleagues.
📌 I’ve been re-focusing on wellbeing after noticing a bit of a slide recently … I’ve cut back on caffeine, been careful to keep my blood sugar stable, and done my exercise. Surprise, surprise, I’m feeling quite a lot better as a result.
📌 I was very saddened this week to hear of the passing of poet and LGBTQ+ activist, Andrea Gibson. I’m on their mailing list, so I knew all about the diagnosis, but was still surprised by how hard the news hit me. Their work was especially important to me during the 2000s and, I think, is associated with a particularly intense time in my life. If you’re not aware of Andrea’s poetry and writing, I recommend checking it out now. Their words have certainly brought me comfort, inspiration and strength over the years. Here’s ‘How the Worst Day of my Life Became the Best’.
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