Purple chicken Presente: So, how are your sex offenders?

 As previously noted the fluffy purple chicken at the bottom of this post is this year's visual motif for RantWoman's spiritual preparations for summer Zoomathons. The chicken will be assisting with several meditations. Some of the meditations may be composed sooner than they are posted for a number of different reasons.

Remembrances of Quaker gathering greetings past: So, RantWoman, how are your sex offenders?

MY sex offenders? Ok, which ones?

The ones from Meeting? 

The ones who lurk behind liability insurance clauses and insurance company best practices and police reports about sex offenders but not sex offenses?

The ones behind a serious organizational housecleaning and collaboration between the National Federation of the Blind (those OTHER blind people) and RAINN, on the agenda at the NFB National (Virtual) convention

Gambit article on NFB issues

DRAFT Resolution creating survivors fund

Interim Report of the Special Committee

Nfb.org survivors page

#NFB21 #StrongerTogether

NFB President Marc Riccobono's opening speech

NFB PResident Marc Riccobono closing speech which oddly says NOTHING about the topics above

There is a really nice 3-pronged approach reported in the business meeting RantWoman attended. RantWoman WILL check links above to refresh her memory.

Among the fun facts that stick with RantWoman: women with disabilities are 2-7 x more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women AND only 10% get helped. RantWoman acknowledges that it would be better journalism to cite precise source.

Oh HELL. RantWoman realizes that she will best be able to uphold business meeting process if she asks whether a couple documents can be posted on the Annual Session website AND writes yet another hopefully better distilled narrative about topical moments from this blog and asks for help holding business meeting process in the Light.. 

The ones who come up when frontline interpreters besides RantWoman mention secondary traumatization?

The paratransit driver from another jurisdiction who seriously skeeved out a blind professional and was later arrested for victimizing another passenger, an even more vulnerable adult?

The ones that must motivate tight vehement voices when a cyclical review of the NPYM child safety policy is discussed in more than one Meeting's Meeting for Business.

The ones in circles close to RantWoman that show up and make RantWoman's nerves go bzzzst  bzzzsst during said discussions in Business Meeting, the ones that are "hold in the Light / go talk to your counselor themes except when they're not because it's obvious other people in the room are swimming in related psychic streams?

The ones who come up in worship, one because someone whose job description included "mandated reporter" actually had to report something, and some in connection with a freaky pizza message.

One from Meeting came up in conversation recently with the words "..medical..." and care committee. RantWoman in the conversation where that one came up: "Good. I am glad the Friend has a care committee and glad you are on it and I don't need to know anything further.

Another one with ties to Meeting comes up in conversation a lot but not in ways RantWoman is clear to blog about.

The presumptive sex offender who came up about the mandated reporter just made RantWoman think oh what a lucky child who found an adult they could trust. That story will also make RantWoman check a couple things in the revised Child safety policy ... just because.

Here and odd digression: RantWoman thought the freaky pizza message issues should have settled down, but no. RantWoman recognizes that she is STILL peeved and resentful on testimony on equality and other  grounds: Freaky Pizza Message Friend previously felt entitled to tell RantWoman she had not heard God in a RantWoman message two other people had just expressed appreciation for and was unable to say anything that might take another try at hearing God. But Freaky Pizza Message Friend did not even want to interact with RantWoman about the freaky Pizza Message and such Light as has come to RantWoman comes secondhand. RantWoman would never say Freaky Pizza messages don't belong in Meeting for Worship; RantWoman would, though, have preferred different responses from more than one direction about the Freaky Pizza Messag, up to and including "RantWoman should just GO AWAY!" 

But really, never mind Freaky Pizza Message Friend. There are other ears in the picture.

That is a VERY good thing: Bill Cosby is out of jail. The 45th president remains at large. Brett Kavanagh is on the Supreme Court, and plenty of other outrages linger. 

Fluffy lavender chicken and
red metal powdered mil mocha mug

Update: How are MY sex offenders blind people edition,

RantWoman as co-chair of a statewide committee sent a summary with various links and a serious CONTENT / TRIGGER warning at the topic to the email list for theWA affiliate of ACB. RantWoman got back:

--one survivor story from long ago the author is willing to have RantWoman pass along anonymously

--several comments basically praising the whole process f0r very comprehensive effort and in a couple cases from people RantWoman felt safe to say briefly "this is why the whole subject makes RantWoman's head explode AND this is how planned measures should address the issues for the future.