21/02/21 — Durham University

minutes (21/02/21)

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 21/02/21

Time: 11am

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

Apologies

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Jonah

student support review panel went well, and he did not much to add as it was roughly the same as the last time (strengths and weakness of student support and what they should be doing)
have reached out to katie to do an event but she hasn't gotten back
culture commission: organising with seun to talk to the associations, plans are still tentative and will keep the exec informed

Fliss

Allen

freddy and allen met the person who was talking about including pronouns signature from the edi dept and she wanted to get opinions on pronouns
allen has been sending out the surveys since last night in the various group chats

Megan

conducted the book club on sunday and 8 people showed up, which better than last month, but turn out is still dropping but many event turn outs are dropping because everyone is tired

Freddy

we have had some events; wed coffee with 5 people, had a real drop in numbers
had a film night, but we had issues with the movies because it was supposed to be carol but ended up with imitation game because of delivery issues
ticket sales of drag brunch

eventbrite takes a cut of the tickets, as such the donation amount may be less than what was bought
people to encourage their friends to come along for better turn out

upcoming events: music and chill on discord, chit chat and make crap on the 22nd, monday there is a talk with AKT
freddy has been trying to think of some ideas for socials and events besides using zoom, and is thinking of doing an online cocktail classes

they worked in a bar previously and thus has some recipes we could use
freddy worried about whether or not people have the ingredients in their household
megan: hispanic soc has been doing it and it’s been doing quite well because people can substitute ingredients anyways so it should be okay

people have been enjoying a queer life drawing (unrelated to durham)
unsure if we can get nude model, jonah suggested talking to sexpression
freddy will message their friend who may know some semi-professional models
otherwise we can get someone to dress in something that is important to them to their identity or sth that makes them feel confident etc and draw them like that
can maybe get the trans association to join in

people can invite friends and run the zoom call for friends
depending on how many people sign up, we can either to have a small group doing the murder mystery together or something bigger where people are split off into groups
it might be nice to do with people you do not know as a chance to get to know others
but also people who are have social anxiety etc, for them they can have the option to do it with their friends instead
can have a mix of people who come in their own friend group and some with random people

freddy to do a spreadsheet to have some with random people and some with people they would know

Erica

as we are unsure unsure how many people will come to the akt talk, the exec members are to come along
erica was talking to anne this week about the intersectionality campaign and they are unsure if they can run the last leg of the campaign because of diss commitments and uni work and also some team members in the group forget their week of posting
therefore, instead of putting out something sub quality, they decided instead that they will not post, and will instead pick it up with the event panel in the third term
allen suggested that for the AKT talk, because there is a number of talks happening, we can make a graphic about all the talks that is happening and put it out to advertise
megan suggested that it might work best as an instagram story and facebook post as there are a few posts going up
allen to make the graphic and send to megan
erica suggested to put the history events together with the events post
possibly do both, put on story and event post

FINANCES

jonah has received a message from tom penman (ex treasurer) that for the last three years he has been paying from the website without being reimbursed
he says it is in the ballpark of £200
jonah has asked for receipts and bank statements from tom to know how much we actually owe him
we have £500 for the start of the year, so we can use that
every year there is £500 and can apply for more if needed
to talk to tom this week and change the billing address after

DAY IN THE LIFE TAKEOVERS

those who wants to volunteer they can do day in the life takeovers to show people what being an exec is like
to do them now or one a week and put them on highlights so people can find up about the post
allen suggested can substitute the intersectionality post for this instead
megan can do a google form for what people want to do, she to do it over the next week and go from there
fliss happy to do theirs this week, but allen suggested that since with history month we have had a lot of things and maybe to postpone it
the content does not have to be related to association work, and it might be nice to show some self-care tips as well

ELECTIONS PROCEDURES

with the ongoing SU election, jonah reminded that the association cannot endorse anyone
we cannot use resources linked to the association to help candidates
jonah will not be endorsing anyone as the association president, possibly as another candidate, but not as the president
but the rest of the exec can endorse people on their own platforms

TGM DATES

END OF YEAR ELECTIONS

jonah suggested that they exec are to try and find people to run because of worries that people won’t be running because of less engagement

SURVEY

earth science survey, jonah to share within the presidents group to share with their own members
this is regarding the pronouns at the end of emails and whether or not it should be included and how people feel about it

EXEC SOCIAL