minutes (10/3/20)
LGBT+ Association Meeting
Date: 10/3/20
Time: 6pm
Location: Association Room, DSU
ATTENDEES
Members
Ben Tyerman
Kate Hilton-Balfe
Maria Kravchenko
Stephen Lau
Jai Bhardwaj
Erica Chan
Allen Drews
Olivia Gleave-Donlan
Ariyike Oyelola
Amanda Ong
Apologies
Francesca Fiorentini
ORDERS OF BUSINESS
ben: campaigns and updates and progress
stephen: doing a mental health campaign w maria
maria: contacted RT, meeting them tomorrow to get advice for a session, sent a report to stephen
ben: so the campaign focus is on mental health?
[affirmed]
ari: petition sent but it has a few holes, would like to edit it and add the notes
ari: the note about tim is to try and get a reply from him for proof of the lgbt staff support
ben: sounds good
allen: when do you wanna do the campaign? before or after the break?
maria: perhaps before the break, should be doable, maybe next week, or maybe during the exams to de-stress
ben: do you want to repost the links for estranged
maria: maybe to organize something @erica
jai: a group chat maybe
ben: fashion show updates
kat: have casted, went to meeting, had a decent gender balance (trans and non-binary), looks like a relatively diverse group of people, made sure that there was a good range of gender ba;ance, is all good
ben: fashion show seems to be doing well and in order
[break to discuss fashion show]
ben: just need to check in and make sure it's going well
ben: socials?
erica: posted the events, money for the bubble tea? society will give thirty free bubble teas
ben: why are they argganing this?
erica: to get promotion for their store i think, thirty should be more than enough as not so many usually people show up, but it is from all of their generally budget
ben: very nice of them
liv: promote the free aspect
jai: maybe the first twenty people
erica: they have to order the bubble tea beforehand then bring it down since we’re having it at the SU
allen: how will people order it?
erica: the shop will order beforehand and bring it, just the general bubble tea
[break to discuss lactose intolerance and cheese]
ben: so the social is underway?
erica: should be fine, but just had to check with the exec
kate: should we do half and half or something like that?
erica: will check with fran
ben: postgrad social?
allen: has been shared with ustinov and another college, chill talking
erica: probably won’t be another social for the last week
maria: might do one though for mental health
erica: do you need the rest of the craft stuff
maria: will let you know
ben: abortion controvesy
maria: the message that we got on facebook
ben: DUCK listed student’s life as a feminist organization
ben: what is their general im? providing contraception or just against abortion?
maria: will check
ben: if their aim is to provide accessible contraception it could be justifiable, why did they involve us?
maria: [reads out the aim and objective of the durham life organization] i think they did it because they wanted to be politically correct
ben & liv: why ar ethey on the feminist list though, it is completely contradictory
jai: maybe it was a misunderstanding with their name
allen: should we get back to nancy to sign?
maria: she wants a group chat to draft it
kate: will be very happy to do that, want to be careful about the gendered aspect of drafting the petition
ben: did a vote ages ago to do a pro-choice stance but i do not think it passed, maybe sign the petition but don’t start too much beef
[break to discuss the association]
allen: so kate will join the group chat?
[affirmed]
ben: jude’s message
maria: jude messaged on the page
allen: he is the working class rep for butlers and they want to plan future events, cross association quiz nights, do we want to collab?
ben: what does that entail?
allen: would mean that we host a round for the quiz
ben: tentatively saying yes
jai: international association will also likely get involved, will try to
allen: kate will answer?
[affirmed]
ben: @ liv replying to messages
liv: will get on it immediately
ben: is the facebook admin, will add people to the facebook so they can control
ben: is on the high table for cuth’s pride formal as a rep
allen: should we post a statement that we do not post surveys as people keep sending in surveys
kate: esp cause it’s survey time
ben: will post a small paragraph
liv: will do it
ben: website? do we need to do anything
maria: jai will do something, but no rush
jai: agreed
ben: did the person send over the blog notes?
liv: yes
allen: welfare distribution system
maria: yes, but no one is requesting
kate: does it have a permanent place on the website?
maria: have added it into the drop down bar
ben: there has been an issue with people asking for things but not using it when it is given
liv: posting on the grindur page gives it more momentum
maria: assembly what are the motions?
ben: censure outcome (kate did not leave her job), workers rights in higher education (ben agrees with this), community engagement (durham su to close the divide of durham locals and the students - ben agrees), procedure for allocating delegates for nus meetings
kate: do we not already do that?
ben: they got rid of the lgbt one
kate: they scrapped a lot of them
ben: [continuing the motion readings] open rep places elected by cross campus ballet (ben is against this)
[break to discuss this motion]
maria: thinks we should do cross campus ballet
kate: but the issue it can result in a popularity vote
jai: also the issue of controversy and things like RON
ben: will listen to the arguments and see from there
ben: [continuing] getting digitally up to date (if argued well will vote for it)
liv: the su website is not good so it could be good
[agreed]
ben: remove officer and committee and association updates from committee, do not understand the point of this
ben: will probably vote against that
[break to discuss previous assemblies]
ben: need to start thinking about elections, need to give warning
maria: before or after the exams
ben: won’t it be late?
liv: there are people who are coming back from abroad
maria: but people are also leaving early
[break to discuss previous elections]
ben: is tuesday better for people? would next tuesday be better?
[affirmed]
[end of meeting]