Suzanne Johnson, Whanganui-a-Tara

Meeting with colleagues appealed to me after several years of avoiding large gatherings, as did the timely conference theme. I hoped that sexuality and gender, often unspoken, argued, evocative, might be opened up, allowed. I was looking forward to the theme, ‘Sex, society, and the self: Navigating the shoals’ as an invitation to open discussion and an opportunity to find our way with seemingly new (though, in reality, probably not new) sexualities and identities. This invitation felt like a relief, and a potential space to be more ‘self’, more present.

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