QSA General Meeting Minutes
10/14/2012
Board Attendance
Trevor, Roland, Ariel, Ivel, Neimy, Ken, Philip, Ben, Edith
Preferred Gender Pronouns and Check-ins
Ground rules
Week in review:
- NCOD!
- “beautiful and wonderful” tabling in Annenberg: signing the flag; unexpected Allies
- Philip – a fantastic facilitator, and made it into a dialogue
- privacy and confidentiality of attendees
- strong newly coming out and questioning attendance at the narratives event
- Tabling AAA
- more pies!
- Rape panel
- a learning experience, but troubling; great co-sponsorship with IWRC
- March against Rape Culture and Gender Inequality
- very non-heteronormative
- Diesel Outing
- great turn-out, ~19 people
- happy to be off-campus, less stressful, good timing on a Friday, wholesome
- Phone Bank
Upcoming:
- Hillel bar mitzvah (John Harvard’s) Sheraton Commander
Saturday, Nov. 3 evening/night
dance, open bar, photo booth
YLove (gay, black, Jewish orthodox, rapper)
co-sponsorship? needs QSA to plan, conceptualize, and set-up; one point person
donation? (for goodie bags?)
Yes, 3 abstain
- Phone Bank with the Dems, this upcoming Thursday, Oct. 18, early evening
Yes, 1 abstain
Committee:
Let’s solidify all the planning/dates right now! Pull up the calendar.
- Political
- Health Panel – HUHS and Fenway
- Awareness of gay-men blood-ban campaign
- Philip
- Online Dating
- Moving the talent show fundraiser to the Spring
- Queer Poetry Reading
- Gender Diversity
- Kate Bornstein
- Co-sponsorship with the ballroom team
- TTF – Trans 101 for QSA members, with “gender-bread” cookies
- Cultural Diversity
- SoComm
- Kink party with Munch
- Harvard Yale party
- Study break with board games
