Last Night’s Celebration

Last night there was a celebration for the signing of the anti-discrimination that was given by ctEQUALITY. As I mentioned in my other blog post it was a bittersweet moment. But I want to share something else that I’m proud of.

In the room last night, out of the fifty or so people who attended the party, over a dozen are University of Connecticut School of Social Work graduates or students. To me that is pretty amazing, that is around 20%. Included in the alumni that attended the celebration was the mayor of Hartford who is also an UConn SSW graduate and his husband, who was a classmate of mine. Many of the graduates there also interned at the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, just as I did.

The School of Social Work instills a strong sense of social justice and that is shown by the number of their graduates who go on to work for causes that they believe in. I was the only trans-graduate there, all the others were there because they wanted to right a wrong.

The photo below was taken the night that the bill passed in the Senate…
Left to right Dan (UConn SSW student), me (UConn SSW graduate), Sally (UConn SSW graduate), Jennifer, Betty and Gretchen (UConn SSW student). It wasn’t a photo of just classmates and graduates, but it was a photo of those who were there that night to listen to the debate (there were two others off giving interviews to the press and they were not UConn SSW graduates or students, but it is still impressive that 50% of those there that night were UConn SSW graduates or students).

Top photo courtesy of Deja