{"id":35472,"date":"2014-07-01T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=35472"},"modified":"2014-07-01T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T00:08:15","slug":"35472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/01\/35472\/","title":{"rendered":"AJET: Stonewall Japan – LGBT Computer-based Q and A sign-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this originally posted to the JETAA Southern California Facebook group<\/a> by Stephen Haverfield:<\/em><\/p>\n

Passing along info from Stonewall Japan: LGBT Computer-based Q&A sign in:<\/em><\/p>\n

Greetings from Stonewall Japan! Many of you may know of our organization already but for those unfamiliar, we are one of the national AJET special interest groups. With almost 800 members, we are definitely the largest of the SIGs, and our mission is to provide a safe community for LGBTQIA English language speakers living and working in Japan.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ajet.net\/contact-ajet\/special-interest-nationality-language-groups\/Stonewall.ajet.net<\/a><\/p>\n

We are contacting you today to let you know about the resources we have been putting together for the incoming 2014 JETs. As departure looms, we’re sure you are all extremely busy with preparing the new JETs for their life abroad. In order to help with that process, we have created a small handout about living as an LGBTQIA person in Japan. It includes links to resources and has a lot of great information that we certainly wish we had had when we first arrived on JET! We have also gathered some wonderful volunteers from Stonewall’s leadership to provide Q&A sessions through Google Hangouts for incoming JETs BEFORE they leave, which we hope will answer a lot of lingering questions and alleviate some stress from the often stressful process of preparing for departure.<\/p>\n

The orientation handout is attached and the link to the Q&A session sign-up is here:
\nhttp:\/\/stonewall.ajet.net\/new-jet-info-session-sign-up-2014\/<\/p>\n

However, as you know, the time for orientation is limited, especially considering AJET will no longer have a presence this year at Tokyo orientation. So we were encouraged by National AJET to send this out to the JET alumni associations \/ orientation coordinators post-haste. We hope that you can distribute the handout and the link to the Q&A to the incoming JETs in your area as soon as possible (the deadline for the Google Hangouts sign up is July 12th and we have a limited amount of spots open).<\/p>\n

Lastly, we want to congratulate you on the work you’ve done and continue to do to make sure the new JETs arrive in Japan with the knowledge they need to hit the ground running. A big Otsukare-sama goes out from the whole Stonewall team.<\/p>\n

Thank you and onegaishimasu,<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

The Stonewall Japan Leadership Team
\nstonewallsig@ajet.net<\/p>\n

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Saw this originally posted to the JETAA Southern California Facebook group by Stephen Haverfield: Passing along info from Stonewall Japan: LGBT Computer-based Q&A sign in: Greetings from Stonewall Japan! Many of you may know of our organization already but for those unfamiliar, we are one of the national AJET special interest groups. With almost 800 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t