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AUREA Email Follow Up
Sunday, 9 August 2020 02:15 amContext: Roughly two months ago, I mentioned in the comments of the 'The Importance of Representation' AUREA post that I might try reaching out to the Contact email [here].
There's something about being in 'I am writing an email' mode where I feel like I need to be non-confrontational and polite, and I didn't want to dump everything I'd written in the post into one email. I tried to weigh out what seemed like the most important question to get out of the way first when contacting them about their representation post, and I settled on an aspect brought up by Sennkestra [here] about the focus on mainstream media over independent creators.
( My email to AUREA. )
I then found out that they had a feedback form open, but I didn't want to fill out information about myself just to eventually get to the space provided to give feedback. I decided to wait and see if I ever got a response, but then I forgot about sending the email. (I also was mentally taken out of commission for quite a bit of July due to Covid-19.) I recently saw K.A. Cook's blogs in the bottom of the 'Aromantics Create(d) Pride' post in the section for engaging with other projects and aro content, which reminded me that I sent an email. I went looking through my Sent folder and realized that Outlook did this thing where the reply was attached to the sent email instead of showing up in my inbox. That is not how my brain likes to manage emails, so jot that down for why I don't use this email for most communication purposes.
( AUREA's reply. )
Honestly, I'm probably not going to try to send another email. Email spoons are a very particular type of energy draining spoon, and I would rather spend my energy elsewhere, especially when it's almost two months later.
There's something about being in 'I am writing an email' mode where I feel like I need to be non-confrontational and polite, and I didn't want to dump everything I'd written in the post into one email. I tried to weigh out what seemed like the most important question to get out of the way first when contacting them about their representation post, and I settled on an aspect brought up by Sennkestra [here] about the focus on mainstream media over independent creators.
( My email to AUREA. )
I then found out that they had a feedback form open, but I didn't want to fill out information about myself just to eventually get to the space provided to give feedback. I decided to wait and see if I ever got a response, but then I forgot about sending the email. (I also was mentally taken out of commission for quite a bit of July due to Covid-19.) I recently saw K.A. Cook's blogs in the bottom of the 'Aromantics Create(d) Pride' post in the section for engaging with other projects and aro content, which reminded me that I sent an email. I went looking through my Sent folder and realized that Outlook did this thing where the reply was attached to the sent email instead of showing up in my inbox. That is not how my brain likes to manage emails, so jot that down for why I don't use this email for most communication purposes.
( AUREA's reply. )
Honestly, I'm probably not going to try to send another email. Email spoons are a very particular type of energy draining spoon, and I would rather spend my energy elsewhere, especially when it's almost two months later.
