01/02/22 — Durham University

minutes (01/02/22)

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 01/02/22

Time: 7pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

Apologies

AGENDA

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

Reports

Mal

SU will be taking one policy idea forward to NUS, not sure when
assembly members had to vote, it was the drug harm reduction policy and freedom of speech bill
mal voted freedom of speech bill, viewed it as important esp in light of south college
continuing to work with the police and the bouncers, slow going, hopefully will have a meeting with osb manager soon, had meeting with police liaison officers, they have good intentions

Alicia

there was incident yesterday of someone being dragged out of the toilets in osbournes by the bouncers so there may be an incoming report as well

Online vs In Person Meetings

online seems to be more convenient, especially since we’re doing alternating weeks
though it may be good to do an in person thing as an exec, we could do an informal social at some point, nothing that will have to be arranged too much
general consensus was for online meetings

Sexual Health Campaign

Caity is organizing the sexual health campaign and it is coming together well
the plan is to have it span from the 14th to the 18th of February
the initial plan was to have a massive testing drive, but the kits are difficult to come by even after contacting some organizations and with the COVID cautions in place, it will be difficult to organize
the plan now is to still have an in person event, but nothing too big
alternative ideas:

this might be doable as welfare just ordered a new batch of supplies
we don’t have a lot of dental dams, but we do have a lot of condoms, and a few varieties of condoms as well
it might be good to have information leaflets as well, or qr codes to websites just to have something for people to take away from the event that gives them more information about sexual health welfare
Caity will also be getting the social media post organized for the posts for that week

this can be a physical board in the SU, either to have post it notes to for people to write their questions on or things that we wished people knew about more q&a
board to write questions in su
can be erased etc

LGBT+ History Month

February is LGBT+ history month
have a few events lined up
cabaret night on the 27th
english lit society wanting to do a collab post
Ainsleigh can also do a couple of informational posts to be spaced out over the course of the month

Quiz in Collaboration with the SU

to be held on the 13th of Feb
it will be LGBT+ themed with subcategories such as film, tv, history, politics, etc
all exec members are to help out with coming up with questions for the quiz
each person can take a subcategory to do, and Alicia will send out a document for people to fill out which rounds they wish to do
currently unsure if winners will get prize money, from Mal’s recollection, the money from the tickets will go half to the winners and half to the association
Alicia is to confirm this with the DSU

Extending Nomination Period

as we have not had any nominations for the role, we will be extending it to the 8th of February
we will also be having a short exec meeting 10 minutes before the actual TGM in case anyone wants to run
Amanda to post on the email and Ainsleigh to post on social media of the extension

Voting Period

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