30/09/20 — Durham University

transcript (30/09/20)

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 30/9/20

Time: 4pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

the turnout was low due to the circumstances at hand, however it went well despite this and no one encountered any major problems

Fliss (VP UG)

to create a give random freshers, but for post graduates
Fliss will send the basic outline for the five random freshers form to Allen (VP PG), Allen to make one for the postgrads

FIRST WELFARE DROP INS

first welfare drop ins will be conducted this friday by Peter and Amy (welfare and assistant welfare officer)
password and link will be uploaded to facebook and instagram
Megan (publicity and media officer) has a link tree set up on instagram and will forward it to peter and amy, also to put a story on instagram about drop ins

QUIZ

to take place on the 10th of october
planned to be done via livestream, tentatively through facebook live
the quiz will be conducted via kahoot
teams are to be made via colleges, college reps will be appointed the ‘head’ of the team and will conduct their own zoom call with the LGBT+ people within the college itself and will be the ones to submit the answers into kahoot

all to be confirmed with the LGBT+ college reps, 8 have indicated interest already
those colleges without a rep will be represented by an exec (preferably of the same college)
currently ustinov and south do not have a rep and there has been trouble getting in contact with collingwood’s rep, fliss marked to take south college, allen for ustinov, and peter for collingwood

Freddy (social secretary) to be in charge of the event and to post on the event page to make clear what is going on

Freddy also to send Megan the details of the event so that she can make and instagram post about it
will attempt to livestream the event on discord as well as on facebook via two different screens

ADVERTISING OTHER ASSOCIATIONS / MWM GROUPS

to contact the other associations to ask them what key stuff they would like us to mention in the posts

TRANS ASSOCIATION

the trans association currently does not have a full exec and has no election
Jonah (president) to talk to Ewan about this and suggest that the LGBT+ association can help put on elections if necessary, also to ask about their re-registration
would be helpful in the mean time to find a trans rep
to advertise the trans association on the LGBT+ association page as well
not to run the system for them as it would be encroaching on their jurisdiction, but helping where possible
Peter has messaged Miller (he/him) and Allen has messaged Bran Blackshow (they/them), but it is unsure if either of them will still be on the exec in the upcoming year

EMERGENCY SU MEETING

the womxn association president has contacted Jonah about an emergency association meeting with the SU regarding the ongoing investigations about the screenshots that have been circulating around
the meeting is to be focused on misogyny, racism, lad culture affecting minority groups, etc
the association has a general policy not to be involved in politics and therefore a vote was taken among the exec on whether or not to participate in the meeting
vote was taken by a raise of hands (no secret ballot was requested) and it was a unanimous vote to participate in the meeting

EMAILS

Amanda (steering) to forward the emails to Amy who is collating them in a word document
career document is then to be put in the linktree

also have received emails about people wanting to get more involved with the association

TIME FOR WEEKLY GENERAL MEETINGS

set for 7:30 Monday every week, could be subject to changes depending on the exec members schedules as they have not been set

OTHER BUSINESS

Launch event for the discord

to be combined with the quiz
will announce the discord at the end of the quiz
Freddy will attempt to livestream the event on discord as well as on facebook via two different screens

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