02/11/20 — Durham University

minutes (02/11/20)

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 02/11/20

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

Apologies

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Jonah

assembly went well, nothing much to vote on, will provide list of candidates next time, only two were contested
if anyone wants the details of the assembly they can contact jonah
liberation forum went well, j is going to have another meeting and they are probably gonna create another committee for welfare
going to have a dismantle the culture group with the staff and students, to basically form an oversight group of the respect commission group to ensure that they are doing what they set out to do

Fliss

rocky horror social went well, 10 people showed up and it worked well and the streaming worked
could plan to do something like this again, possibly with netflix watch party
parenting social is tomorrow, but there is no further preparation needed
any questions that are sent into the facebook messenger regarding parental scheme will be answered by Fliss

Campaigns

campaigns have had a bunch of new freshers sign up
conducted a shop call to brief them on the campaigns that are currently on-going, as well as the upcoming plans
Erica and Anne had a meeting with Ewan and they helped them with administrative details such as an action plan and contacts to use
Ewan will also be hosting a drop in session for association people because the SU didn’t contact the associations properly
Anne has a new plan for the new campaign (sexual misconduct and consent), if anyone wants to see it, she will share it to the facebook group
the new campaign is aimed at boosting other groups that tackle sexual misconduct and consent
to post resources for what to do should an incident occur to someone on campus and how they can make a report to the uni
to be added to the website as well
campaigns and welfare, along with Jonah, to collaborate on this
regarding the GNB, Ewan suggested putting the survey on the welfare groups, Peter has done so

TRANS ELECTIONS

CLOTHES SWAP

questions were raised by a few people (in person and from messenger) about if the association will be running or helping to organize a clothes swap, especially considering that the trans association cannot host one this year
it is a good opp for people to get some gender affirming clothes and it has been run before with relative success
however, due to the current situation with COVID-19, there are certain issues; there is no place to store the clothes as the association room is closed, furthermore, distributing them safely will be difficult as well
discussion to be tabled for the second term if things have died down by then

MINORITIES WITHIN MINORITIES

Peter has managed to get the info together about minority within minority reps and is ready to put together posts for the association’s social media and website
there was a suggestion to change calling them from minority within minority groups to community groups by J
no issues about changing the name, Peter to do so as he sees fit
tentative plans to have a collaboration with the other associations to form an intersectional group as the association already has rep positions for each other association
plans to advertise this
currently, we can have people as acting reps, but can only be elected at GM

TERMLY GENERAL MEETING DATE

HISPANIC SOCIETY COLLABORATION

Hispanic society wants to do a collaboration to have something celebrating LGBT+ people and latino culture
Megan had a meeting with the president last week, and they wanted to do a week of talking about lgbt+ people on latino films, tv, etc
they wanted to do a film night (hispanic society will host), also wanted to the association to host a quiz and they would host a round (Megan has talked to Freddy about this and they are ok with that), also the hispanic society wants to do a post about LGBT+ latino figures, which the association would in turn share to our page
the quiz is tentatively to be conducted in the same form as the previous one (in college groups) and is tentatively to be held around the week beginning of the 16th of November
Megan to correspond for the event

COLLEGE REP MEETING

Jonah to create a doodle to organize a meeting with the college reps this week
spoke to marys that they want to do an lgbt sensitivity training, will try and get the colleges ro emulate what they’re doing, will bring it up in the meeting and see how it goes down
will not run with it until mary’s has settled because it’s their idea, will leave it up to them

GOOGLE OUTREACH REQUEST

google advertising virtual program for people who want to get involved in google
to be added into the career opportunities google documents
the document created by Amy is to be linked in the website, and Megan is to do an instagram post about it
the exec members are to be added into the document as well so as to be able to help with adding on events

TAB AND GUARDIAN MEETING

DUFS

DUFS has sent the association an email asking if anyone would be interested in writing a blog post about LGBT+ representation in media
fliss, megan, and jonah interested
amanda to ask them to confirm exactly what they would want from the post