minutes (16/11/20)
LGBT+ Association Meeting
Date: 16/11/20
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Online
ATTENDEES
Members
Jonah Graham
Erica Chan
Peter Kissack
Anne Sim
Fliss Barrows
Allen Drews
Freddy Sperring
Megan Hogg
Amy Rees
Amanda Ong
Apologies
Scott McCarter
ORDERS OF BUSINESS
REPORTS
Jonah
had college reps meeting, went well, there was a good response and managed to raise a couple of issues
will try to do every month as requested
meeting with politics assoc, want to do a co-panel about what more the govt needs to do to help lgbt, education asylum, gender recognitions act, etc
had first radio show, went well but had tech difficulties, managed to figured it out
purple radio every week 9-10, graphics will come out this week
Allen
trans association elections are going ahead, still in the process of speaking to SU, but sorting it out
had the second pre-election meeting, which showed some interested parties
doing publicity with post-grads, good responses, however the groups seemed to have died down
tentatively when we can meet in real life we can send a stimulus message to try and get them up again
Megan
will do posts about TGM, and create an event
Amanda will post the event up after the meeting
book club had 17 new people today
YOU ARE NOT ALONE CAMPAIGN
idea that Jonah had
Jonah: there has been a big turnout problem within the colleges, a sense of it being hard to make proper connections at this time between college reps and students because it's hard to put a face to a name and build relationships to get people to come. i am hesitant to put my face forward and instead want to do a campaign that is directed to freshers, and livers out.
it will be a video with myself and any other exec members who wish to participate as a direct message to them about them not being alone.
it would involve the LGBT+ association, college reps, trans association, and DPOCA and i would like a montage of videos of people saying if you’re “gay, trans, ace, etc” with different faces (to make it seem like a bigger community).
planning to write a script during christmas and start it next term as well as to have a panel / open forum to discuss how lockdown has affected lgbt communities, get an activist, lgbt+ artists as a launch panel and have the campaign video afterwards.
Megan is keen to get involved, and suggested it might be good at the start of the second term to do posts for the college reps and if they are down to get involved to show who their reps are
there is a person in purple radio who wants to do a podcast episode about specifically trans and non-binary people specifically, Erica could possibly liase with her and work with them to make it easier (head of arts for purple radio)
Jonah will try to talk to palatinate and the bubble to have more resources and platforms, would be good to have some positivity
from a welfare point of view, will have a disclaimer that it will go online that will signpost welfare resources for participants in cases of backlash as well as how to report hate crimes etc
Campaigns are willing to help out
DURHAM SURVIVORS
Jonah has messaged durham survivors to inform them that the association is doing a guide and we want to include them. they have agreed and want to have a meeting
Anne and Jonah to attend the meeting
SOCIAL TO EXPLAIN DISCORD
to be on the 4th of dec
people like the idea of discord but don’t know how to do it
Freddy will have a recording to how to use it as a basic crash course
POSSIBLE SOCIALS
new app called gather town, can walk around as an avatar and when you’re close to someone your videos will pop up, kind of like meeting in real life
to test out 8pm tomorrow to try gather town
possibly to use for coffee shop social
Megan has requested to play among us
possibly want to do coffee shop socials over christmas
HISPANIC SOCIETY
collab with the Hispanic Society is happening this week, not sure how well it’ll go, hosting a netflix screening. an eventbrite has already been done for the netflix party
have quiz on friday 20th at 8pm that Freddy will be handling, Megan will be assisting Freddy for the quiz
Megan needs to be added in LGBT 2.0 chat and college rep chats
for the quiz, Freddy will conduct it in college teams, will sort it out in the next few days
alternatively, the colleges may want to pair up as there may not be a lot of people attending
Freddy to check with the college reps
the quiz will be livestreamed along with written plain text questions
HOLIDAY PLANS
continuing the coffee shop
doing games night on about the 18th of dec
possibly to have socials in the morning for international students as well
could do brunch time
do at least one actual christmas based social about making decorations for christmas
can do on 20th
will post instructions beforehand to get supplies
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
college reps wanted to do a trans guide to ensure that deadname isn't used by the uni. campaigns are interested to do it. Jonah to add Erica and Anne to the reps chat and they can come to the next meeting
Jonah and Freddy were unable to find a speaker for trans day of remembrance
suggestion: Miller has talked about a local durham organization that does trans activism, and we could share their things instead