12/10/20

minutes (12/10/20) 

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 12/10/20

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

  1. Jonah Graham

  2. Allen Drews

  3. Erica Chan

  4. Peter Kissack

  5. Megan Hogg

  6. Anne Sim

  7. Fliss Barrows

  8. Amy Rees

  9. Freddy Sperring

  10. Amanda Ong

Apologies

  1. Scott McCarter 

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Fliss

  • parenting scheme

  • slight issues due to large amount of sign ups and data configuration

  • selected exec members to send out emails by the end of the week 

  • to edit the parenting scheme sign up to make less open ended questions 

QUIZ DEBRIEF

  • went well, people enjoyed it

  • moving forward, to have separate people to help to do live stream, read questions, answer questions in chat

  • therefore, need someone to help Freddy next time

  • issue with the song portion 

  • option to screen share on zoom with sound

  • also possibly to play on a separate device 

  • good to have a break in the quiz to have a chat and make friends

  • possibly to have the zoom start half an hour before the start of the quiz to let everyone get to know each other 

  • Jonah and Freddy to have a feedback meeting with the college reps

PARENTING SOCIAL

  • not sure to have a quiz

  • possibility: escape room (durham based escape room, find mr x, use durham streets)

  • saturday 24th, time to be confirmed

POSSIBLE SOCIALS

  • jack box games

  • Erica might have some available games the association can use

  • club penguin (?)

  • arts and craft social

  • zoom call with breakout rooms randomized, blind speed painting, cameras off, draw and turn on the camera

  • halloween social draw each others monster / costume

  • halloween

  • have people send in outfits to the facebook (make it clear that it would have to be put on our page)

  • on halloween night announce the winner

  • or either just do a community showcase of the different costumes without a competition

  • rocky horror picture 

  • rent on amazon prime? (3.49)

  • to be confirmed with Scott

INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST SOCIETY 

  • society reached out to Freddy about a collaboration 

  • the society wants to collaborate with the association to do a feature about being more inclusive to trans and non-binary people in feminism, how to combat transphobia, etc

  • Freddy to go along to a meeting next wed to see

  • the society wants the association to help raise awareness, get some people to be the ‘experts’ on the subject (trans and non-binary people)

  • the feature is to be collaborative and a chance to talk more about the issues at hand

  • association to try and get trans and non-binary volunteers 

  • the society also wanted help with the wording of a post and Freddy helped them with it

  • time frame: 28th oct or 4th of nov, they currently have a few things lined up for now so it’ll be after that

  • the timeline seems to be open and can be pushed back if necessary


GAMES NIGHT

  • among us

  • scribblio 

  • to have more than one night

  • try and get people on the discord server

  • saturday 17th, 7.30pm

PURPLE RADIO

  • have to sign up as an association, will cost £60 (whole year for an hour every monday night)

  • may also have additional incurred cost of music selection (purple radio currently has 21,000 songs)

  • current plans for the show

  • intersectionality campaigns to do a podcast collab, maybe every two weeks or a month to have discussion with Durham academics or different people who have been affected by the relevant issues 

  • to be confirmed with Scott before proceeding 

  • deadline to 16th october 

LIBERATION, WELFARE AND EQUALITY FORUM

  • what has been conveyed currently is a termly meeting as a way to have the colleges and associations to have more communication

  • the association has been asked for feedback and found the idea good but there are some issues

  • e.g. only one officer can account for welfare equality and liberation, which is limited

  • jay, peter, and jonah will be in contact to talk about the deliberation community

  • there are also certain practicality limits

  • the forum is meant to be basically a way for campaigns to run their ideas through larger group

  • currently, support from other associations is also unclear

  • welfare opinion

  • currently unsure how useful the forum will be as the subject of discussion is unknown

  • but if it is chance for people to get their voices, it could be possibly useful

  • however, liberation as a whole is not necessarily exclusive welfare, may be better for the president - who has better of a view of the whole situation - to be inside than welfare officers

  • Jonah suggested to split welfare from the rest 

  • Jonah to confirm more details about the meeting and relay

EMERGENCY SU MEETING

  • the exec previously had motion to agree to participate in the emergency SU meeting

  • the association has since agreed to have a discussion on sexual violence and spiking

  • however, the meeting as issues as there was disagreement about how it would go about in terms of practicality of people speaking up and confidentiality issues 

  • therefore, the idea is not going forward, the su meeting probably won’t happen for a while and has been postponed

  • Jonah to keep us updated

TRANS ASSOCIATION

  • Allen is currently an admin on the page

  • Jonah has talked to Miller and Luke, and Miller has a fresher volunteer (Jem Parker)

  • to have working group to set up elections

  • Jonah, Allen, and Amanda to have a meeting with Miller, Luke, and Jem

OTHER BUSINESS

fashion show 

  • the chat is currently active and the old exec is trying to elect a new exec and are going to have a meeting

  • question of jurisdiction

  • answered, they have the right to elect their own exec members

  • still a subgroup of the association and under Fliss’s control

  • Fliss to update us on the fashion show