Minutes 10/06/09

Check-ins! How is your week going?
Social activity ideas with Kyle!
- Movie night: Oct 22nd at 7 pm
-If you have any other ideas, let Kyle know!
Why We Fight
-Who is affected?
-How do we fight?
-What do you need to keep you going, make you feel safe, etc?
Referendum 71 Article Discussion
-Poll across WA state, 51% said approve, 44% said deny, 5% said undecided
-Make sure you tell people to APPROVE it
-This is not marriage!
Tabling Friday 11-3 in Red Square
Carpool for Sunday
-Meet at VU at 10:30
-Rideshare Offered/Wanted on Viking Village
The Word “Queer”
-Used to mean “strange”
-Later became derogatory
-Now became an all-inclusive term (easier and more inclusive than saying “LGBT”)
-Not everyone is comfortable being referred to as “Queer”, don’t identify as part of queer community, still see it as bad, etc
Shirts
-Website didn’t have aqua, did have yellow/green, darker green, and light blue
-Darker green
--Pros: gender neutral, bright, happy color, very popular color, works with white and black,
--Cons: blends in with everything, very popular color, dark, passive
-Yellow/Green
--Pros: attention grabbing, means slow down, gender neutral, BRIGHT
--Cons: obnoxious, lettering clashes
-Blue
--Pros: blue is beautiful, most people like it, opposite of pink, pretty, goes with lots of other things, more subdued, makes people more comfortable, balances out pink, black lettering looks good on it, makes it look more inclusive
--Cons: doesn’t stand out as much,
---Gender perception (color of boys)
---Gender binary with pink already
-Blue was passed
-Lettering
--Black, white, purple, pink, orange,
--Voted on black or white, black won
--Pink
---Pros: really cute, continue trend from last year
---Cons: not inclusive, puts binary on shirt
--Purple
---Pros: gender neutral, dark and able to be seen
---Cons: too close to blue
--Orange
---Pros: Very bright, fabulous
---Cons: Hard to read against blue, don’t go together
--Purple wins
--Vote between black and purple, black won