January 19 minutes

January 19, 2010

Attending: 30

Comment cards for dining services: fill it out and tell Sodexo you don’t like Chik-Fil-A
-The reason we want Chik-Fil-A gone: it’s a privately-owned business, they don’t allow anyone who’s not Christian or support Christian values to work there, they fire people they suspect to be gay, they donate money to Focus on the Family
-Write as many comment cards as possible over the next few days
--Don’t have to write your name etc on the back, if you want you can write wwuqaafa@gmail.com in email slot
-Can also go onto www.dining.wwu.edu/comment.php
Check-ins: name, preferred pronoun, positive queer experience from your youth (if you can think of one)
Relay for Life
-Sign up online, link is on FB page (Queers and Allies Fight Cancer)
-$10 to sign up, goes toward your fundraising goal
--If you’re a cancer survivor, you don’t have to pay
-Don’t have to register to participate, registering just enables you to raise money online, get fed there, etc
Tabling for Shirts
-Please sign up if you can do it!!!!
Event planning
-Committee splitting off to plan GIH event
Internalized Homo-negativity
-Your own negative/conflicting feelings about homosexuality, queer identity
-Article on FB page: statistics about queer youth (they’re pretty old, thought – not a lot of recent statistics)
-Negative statistics provide evidence for the reasons there is internalized homo-negativity
--Harassment, negative attitude from outside sources, societal pressures
-One of the main reasons there’s so much low self-esteem among the queer community
-How do we remedy these issues?
Queer Youth Conference in spring quarter
-Spear-headed by QAAFA but involved with other queer clubs on campus
-Invite students from local schools’ GSAs to WWU campus
-Day where being queer is not hidden
-There are a lot of conferences, so this one would be pretty small, led by us and other club students
--If you have a workshop you would want to lead, start thinking about it
---We need everyone to help!
---Email workshop ideas to wwuqaafa@gmail.com
-Very queer positive
-Queer movie night afterwards
-Vote next week, then exec board will talk about logistics
Other things that we’re (Josh is) working on
-Safe space training
-LGBT support group in counseling center
GIH Event!
-Petition-like-thing/letter with places for people to sign, then we will drop it off for Willy Hart
--During shirt selling
--Table in vendor’s row/Red Square next Monday w/ big signs, flyers/pamphlets, list of schools that have gender inclusive housing, talk to people (because that’s the most effective)
Queer Club Summit 7-9pm in VU 462