Clan Blue Feather

At the Dec 4th, 2012 conference call, the following Board action was taken:

Motion by Tim Jennings to approve the following change to Corpora IV.B.1, effective immediately:

Each competitor in a Royal List must be fighting for a prospective consort of the opposite sex unless the Crown has elected to permit a competitor to fight for a prospective consort of the same sex.

Seconded by Lisa May. In favor: Mark Faulcon, John Fulton, Denise Hundley, ...

Yet another round of new wording has been proposed for consideration:

"Each competitor in a Royal List must be fighting for a prospective consort of the opposite sex unless the Crown has elected to permit a competitor to fight for a prospective consort of the same sex. No one may take part in the list as both competitor and also consort.”

The reasoning can be found in this article:

http://eastkingdomgazette.org/2012/10/2 ... ...

The SCA board of directors met July 14 and have submitted new proposed wording for the by-laws that impact Inspirational Equality:

"Each competitor in a Royal List must be fighting for a prospective consort of the opposite sex unless the Crown has elected to permit a competitor to fight for a prospective consort of the same sex."

They are once again eliciting feedback from the populace, so please e-mail them at comments@sca.org ...

From the Bod:

"Yesterday evening an announcement was made by the Board of Directors of the Society for Creative Anachronism outlining financial concerns created by a long standing lawsuit and the settlement thereof.

Two PDF files or WORD Documents are available for your perusal at:

http://www.sca. org/BOD/announce ments/settlement .html

Our hope is that you will read them over carefully at your leisure.

The first, 'Announcement from the Board and ...

Hello all!

I'm already part of my Kingdom's forum, but it just made more sense to ask here,

I'm just curious as to how many of us here on the BF forum are part of the Steppes in Ansteorra? Due to physical disability, it seems a slim chance that I'd ever make it to Pensic on my own and it seems like most everyone here meets up at Pensic War. ...

I'm not sure if everyone's been following the recent Inspirational Equality discussions online, but there's been quite a bit. After the Board of Directors added the question about removing the opposite-gender requirement for fighting for crown tourneys on the SCA-wide census last year, a movement has been afoot to do just that.

The latest update is that the issue has made it onto the BoD's October 2011 meeting. Although they can't just change policy (there's ...

I just wanted to pass this along to everyone. I too was curious about the same-sex consort results and Lady Ysabeau has been getting quite a few emails about it. I will cross post on FB and on the email list so that people can see it.
Ysabeau, the Chair of the census is a very good friend of mine and my belt sister to my laurel. She told me to also mention she would ...

Inspirational Equality Movement Sends Petition to the BoD

Many of you have heard of us already, but we want to make sure all of you know of the efforts of the Inspirational Equality advocacy group. You can learn more about our group and our activities on our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Inspria ... alEquality

You may also have read our recent article on SCA Today:
Same-gender couples welcomed to An Tir ...

My interview with the Pennsic Independent Podcast is now up!

http://www.pennsicindependentpodcast.co ... ue-feather

I sat down last Pennsic and did this interview all about the Clan - our history, what we do, etc. I hope I did a good job. :)

- Joshua