09/11/20

minutes (09/11/20) 

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 09/11/20

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Online


ATTENDEES

Members

  1. Jonah Graham

  2. Erica Chan

  3. Peter Kissack

  4. Anne Sim

  5. Fliss Barrows

  6. Allen Drews

  7. Freddy Sperring

  8. Megan Hogg

  9. Amanda Ong


Apologies

  1. Amy Rees

  2. Scott McCarter 


ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Allen

  • have started advertising for trans association election

  • haven't received confirmation from the DSU, will give them one more day to respond (Freddy SU has gotten back, but SU has not) 

  • actual election 7th of dec 

  • to answer questions 

  • Allen will be there to think of questions 

  • two pre elections meetings 

  • interest: for the pre-election meeting, three people have indicated going, 3 interested, 6 people total who are seemingly interested

  • Amanda to include election stuff in the weekly email


Megan

  • collab with hispanic soc

  • unsure currently which day currently but the plan is to have a movie night 

  • quiz will be on 20th 

  • Freddy to host

  • megan will handle promo


Anne

  • had a call with Jonah and Amy and sent stuff about the sexual conduct campaign

  • for the campaign, will contact durham survivors and more, have already contracted sexpression and they seem keen on the project

  • Amy sent resources as well as a diagram of how to report something in the uni, can send to anyone if they want to see


Amanda

  • have a meeting with jon tomorrow to discuss the issue with the two constitutions, will keep everyone updated


RADIO SHOW

  • tonight will be the first show

  • no advertising has been done yet as the current plan is to treat it as a dress run as Jonah and Fliss are unable to do a test run as the purple radio main area is closed

  • advertising for the show will start next week

  • the radio will cut off exactly on the hour and Jonah and Fliss planned for this with two songs to pick from as the last song of the night


COFFEE SHOP SPEED-FRIENDING

  • Freddy and Fliss want to do an event that is weekly and just about making friends

  • they plan to have a zoom call with breakout rooms called tables like a coffee shop

  • tentatively to take place weekly on wed from 4-5pm

  • similar event to speed friending

  • to launch next week

  • to include in mail this week

  • may need a rotation of exec members, this will be determined on a week by week basis, if Freddy or Fliss cannot make it they will let the group know and someone can help out

  • conversation topics will be provided

  • first session at least will be traditional speedfriening of groups of 2 with speedflying questions to break the ice and talk to each other 

  • as the weeks go on, may broadening this and expand for the idea


RISK ASSESSMENTS

  • Megan brought up risk assessments and if they needed to be done as they were mentioned to her by the President of the Hispanic Society

  • the association has not filled out risk assessments, but we will from now on 

  • there will be a link sent into the group for where to fill out and submit the form

  • Freddy to make a template for the online events (as risks will not really change), to use that template from now on


HISPANIC SOCIETY COLLAB

  • current plan is to do the quiz in colleges

  • Freddy and Megan to be there on the night itself

  • Freddy to conduct the live stream while Megan answers questions that may appear on Facebook, or the various messenger chats

  • jonah: doing with colleges?

  • Megan to be added to all relevant groups


POST-GRAD SOCIAL

  • Allen planning to do a coffee morning and a games night in november; probably next week and the week after

  • Freddy’s plans for november (to avoid clashing: had the idea for bring a straight night, trans day of remembrance, hoping to get someone to speak, but no concrete plans

  • potentially do a bigger games night for everyone

  • possibility to repeat every month


TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

  • 20th of november 

  • Freddy and Jonah to look for a speaker together 

  • what happened last year is people met in a rented venue, made posters, had students speaking, former pres of trans association (frank) spoke, could ask him if he is still around

  • Freddy is going to send a few emails out asking around


COLLEGE REP MEETINGS

  • scheduled for wednesday 

  • Peter, Allen, Jonah, and Fliss will attend the meeting and will ask the reps if they have any qns for the Assoiation and will make a list of the qns that the people present cannot answer cannot answer 

  • Jonah has rough ideas on what to talk about during the meeting


DURHAM SURVIVORS COLLAB

  • durham survivors to collab to cover the association’s welfare

  • will offer in return to include them in the association’s resource guide

  • additionally, if they want to post on our social media we can do that as well


EMERGENCY SU MEETING

  • regarding the town hall meeting, Maria and Jonah managed to convince them the idea regarding sharing sexual violence stories (previousy discussed) is not good idea, hence it is not going forward

  • SU will tentatively do a week long campaign on sexual violence, would like the association to be involved

  • Jonah will keep updated

  • Freddy can send in statistics and some resources to Anne to make graphics similar to CIA alongside the resource guide


TGM MEETING DATE

  • to be held on the 30th of November at 730pm

  • Amanda to send out the email by tonight 


CAMPAIGNS

  • event for the intersectionality

  • contacting professors, idea to have a short event of 20 mins speeches / talks about intersectionality focused on race and lgbt + identity aspects

  • still in planning process and getting into contact