26/10/20

minutes (26/10/20) 

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 26/10/20

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Online


ATTENDEES

Members

  1. Allen Drews

  2. Erica Chan

  3. Peter Kissack

  4. Anne Sim

  5. Fliss Barrows

  6. Amy Rees

  7. Freddy Sperring

  8. Amanda Ong


Apologies

  1. Scott McCarter 

  2. Megan Hogg

  3. Jonah Graham


ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Allen

  • had two post grad socials over the weekend

  • went well, well attended, good turnout 

  • there was a good turn out for the five random freshers, one group was complete while two weren’t, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves


Fliss

  • have listed the parenting social on facebook


NEW CAMPAIGN

  • the campaigns team are gonna start a new campaign about sexual consent and misconduct

  • more of an online campaign, similar to CIA, directed towards lgbt+ students and community because there is a lack of resources for lgbt students 

  • also plan to make a podcast and posts about it

  • amy and peter have had training on this, will be happy to join in 

  • welfare and campaigns to join and work tgt

  • want to work with the existing sexual misconduct campaigns in durham already, collaborate and help them make posts that are more lgbt focused on their platform, then share on ours, this way can get the message across a bigger audience


PURPLE RADIO CAMPAIGN

  • DPOCA has gotten back to the association and over the next two weeks, campaigns will be contacting the interviewee, DPOCA’s VP, Yash 

  • the first podcast will focus on the first 4-5 posts on the CIA campaign, and campaign will sit down and have a chat with the interviewee

  • erica, anne, one of the members of the campaign committee and shivani, will record and edit the audio and hopefully get the podcast out

  • taking suggestions for names of the campaign


GAYBORHOOD WATCH

  • fliss and jonah are meeting with joe either tomorrow or wed to talk about it

  • there is a gay playlist in the purple radio called gay time playlist or gay list → to be looked into


GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS

  • erica and allen met to speak about the gnb campaign and have created a survey where people can enter the positions of the gnb on campus

  • when they know how many there are and where they are, the team will proceed from there

  • amanda to include in the email the survey

  • have roughly 15 responses so far


HALLOWEEN SOCIALS

  • Freddy to clear with scott the expenditure of buying the rocky horror picture show dvd

  • thursday is rocky horror:

  • meet at 815, start 830pm - roughly 1030

  • to have it on zoom, as a closed zoom 

  • fliss and Freddy to handle the event 

  • actual halloween, people to send us pictures, to repost on the page, could ask them to say a fun line with their picture, like a yearbook photo

  • Freddy to confirm with megan who is posting the event 


OTHER BUSINESS

question about how to reply when someone you know is asking a question / advice from the page

  • depends on the issue, but if someone is expressing welfare issues, do not message if it is someone you know

trans association election

  • currently discussing dates, for the exec meetings and the election meeting date