09/11/21 — Durham University

minutes (09/11/21)

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 09/11/21

Time: 7pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

Apologies

AGENDA

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

Reports

Mal

worked with Jonah to write a letter to osbournes as there was an incident where an individual reported being kicked out of the women’s toilet

the situation was handled very poorly and there is a clear lack of understanding in bathroom policies
this is troubling especially on lgbt+ night and we are hoping to push for gender neutral bathrooms at the very least on lgbt+ nights, even if it’s just a piece of paper pasted on top of the gendered signs
Mal has not heard back yet, but will update will they do

historically association has not shared fundraising requested by students simply because we would be overwhelmed by requests, but to work around that we can have a structured system to take applications
Peter, Mal, and Nicol have made a google form to take information of the requests and periodically we’ll put a post
the idea for now it’s to do it termly

Nicol

AIDS related resources in the association room, mostly the resources are just documents from past exec, we could use the information on it, but there are no flyers
we do have information books from the national AIDS association that have the red ribbons and the coins, but the issue with the coins is that we need a slip but we can’t find the slip
might be good to get some new resources as they’re very old resources, stuff we could dispose of
Rob from sexpressions has messaged his resource officer and will send through some leaflets

Sexual Health Campaign

Jack and Caity want to divide this years campaign into two parts
the first part, which will be this year, will be revolving around consent to go with what Nicol and Peter are doing, and then moving into sexual health campaign next year
have rounded up general sexual health resources in the association, trevor project, a few dated things
some of the leaflets are very outdated, so we have to be careful on what we recommend as it could cause more harm than good
Caity and Jack are keen to tie it to safe sex for LGBT+ people, but they also want to make sure that when talking about HIV, it is not just seen as a queer issue as it affects everyone
they have a few ideas, want to work on this around feb - march to have more time to prepare
the plan is to start with an awareness campaign focusing on HIV and safe sex, and if this is an idea that everyone likes, to have a testing drive event (to liaise with socials)
Caity and Jack are trying to talk with the NHS about things like PreP, which could potentially be a welfare thing with regards to discretion about getting things (to liaise with welfare)
they also plan to get together some sort of leaflet to disburse online and give to college welfare about safe sex, campaigns will be coordinating with welfare and sexpression
want to see what resources NHS has and whether they would be willing to work with us
also been looking into county durham north sexual health club, looking to contact them in terms of providing supplies if we promote them in turn

Sexpression

Jack and Nicol met with Rob to discuss some matters
Rob has heard about mandaotry consent courses that people had to do at the start of term were not the best and looking into doing something to fill in the gap, especially considering the sexual assault culture is revolving alot around night clubs and spiking
needs to have some sort of better consent education
trialed at oxford was that in order to sign up for a sports club for free and go to events, you would have to sit in on a specific consent training workshop
was successful because found that what brought home the issue to the individuals surrounded by ‘lad culture’ was that hearing their mates saying how it was not ok made them listen more
targeting the sexual assault culture where it is and also those who refused to attend the courses would not be allowed to the socials
also for students whose english is not their first language, they are looking to put on a course in the language department to have english for communicating consent
looking to update resources to ensure that the language is non-gendered and to see anything that the association wants to put in, can contact Rob
looking to make that as lgbt inclusive as possible
meeting set up on st aidans on thursday at 2pm, briefing session at 140, if anyone can make the meeting to pitch the course it would be good

Trans Day of Remembrance

20th november, it would be good to post some stuff on social and hopefully have an event
there will be a vigil in newcastle, not sure if want to make it an association event, can be informal
Mal will be going to the vigil (starts around 6pm) and he is happy to take a group informally and not as the president
we will advertise the vigil on socials but not as an association event
could do a film night for trans remembrance day, perhaps disclosure or paris is burning
could do the movie screening on the 23rd, get a room in the dsu, maybe meeting room 1 as it has a television
tell people to bring blankets and pillows
joint anglican and methodist society asked if we can share about their event (will have to make it obvious that it is a christian event)

Quiz Opportunity

in the group email from the SU, they are running quizzes again, groups have the opportunity to host a quiz in the riverside bar on sunday evening
could be drag race trivia, Alicia will need help with quiz questions and Jack has a few options

End of Term Event

Drag Race Social

25th of november is the finale of this season of drag race and Jack is happy to host a small social regarding it
7pm - 8pm (show starts at 7)
maybe meeting room 1

Christmas Break Socials

would be nice to do a craft thing, maybe online
during the christmas holiday, we can split the who is running it, maybe to do a doodle poll to see who is available
not compulsory to state availability
if anyone is staying over might be nice to do something in an informal capacity

NHS Sponsorship

as we have received a high volume of request for supplies, it might be nice to receive sponsorship
NHS has sponsored us before, might be good to ask
Mal might have some contacts can give to Nicol

TGM Date