Sometimes People Irritate Me

I work for a non-profit crisis center. We deal with Suicide, Sexual Assault, Prevention Education, and Information and referral services for people in need. My main job is to recruit and train volunteer sexual assault advocates to respond to the hospitals or law enforcement agencies when a sexual assault victim reports. I also teach classes in the community on the prevention of child sexual abuse.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which, as you can well imagine, is a VERY busy time for us. We do lots of events throughout the community the entire month. This year, as many of our volunteer advocates are students at the university across the street, when I was asking for suggestions of possible ways to get the message out across the campus, one of our advocates came to me with a wonderful performance art piece that she wants to put on.
This was a great idea, and would really help those who have never been victimized to perhaps understand just a minute amount of the pain and shame associated with being a victim.
But, I was forced to face reality. College campuses are not exactly wanting to let the word out that sexual assault occurs on their campus. Shhhhhh! Don't talk about it!
Anyway, I had to play politics... which I HATE... I am so not into playing nice with territorial, self indulgent people. But, I went to a meeting with the head of the counselling center today. A more territorial woman, I don't believe I have ever met.
What was worse, in my mind, is the fact that we are both trying to do the same thing! We both have a vested interest in helping survivors to deal with the assault and to reach a place of healing and strength. But, you would not believe the tap dance I had to do today to get the woman to allow a student living on that campus to set up a performance piece on campus. It really made me ill. She had no objection to the performance art... her objection was the fact that the student was performing it to raise awareness of our agency and the services we provide to anyone in need.
As I said... sometimes people irritate me.