Minutes 2/23/2010

February 23, 2010

Attending: 18

Check-ins: Name, preferred pronoun, highs and lows

March Event:
-Vote on “Think About What You’re Saying” vs. “Think About What You’re Buying”
--“Think About What You’re Saying”: 7 votes
--“Think About What You’re Buying”: 6 votes
-Where: Red Square
-When: next Wednesday and Thursday, 10 am-3 pm
-What:
--Signs (ideas)
---“That’s so .”
---“Think before you speak – words have power”
---“Words can hurt”
---“An identity is not an insult”
---“When you say ‘that’s so gay’, what do you really mean?”
---“Gay ≠ stupid”
--Duct tape over mouths
---If you want to write something (“THINK” or “NO H8”) on the duct tape, you can
--Table
---Why not to say it
---Don’t say: “No homo”, “that’s so gay”, “that’s retarded”, “f**”
---Do say: “that’s stupid”, “that’s unfavorable”, “that’s harsh”, “idiot”
--We can make signs after next week’s meeting

Protest in Florida
-Strangers marrying each other to make a point that they can get married just because of their gender
-Check out Kitty Lambert, who started it (speech online)

Minutes Feb 16, 2010

February 16, 2010

Attending: 18

Check-ins: name, preferred pronouns, first crush/highs and lows of the week

Chik-fil-A Boycott
-Chik-fil-A is on a five year contract that can’t be broken!
--Josh is going to try to figure out if there’s any way it CAN be broken
Youth Conference
-Ideas for workshops?
--Being an Armchair Activist
--Morality of Homosexuality
--Gay 101
--How to Start a GSA
--Body Image/Self Esteem
--Coming Out
Global Women’s Day, March 8
-Table there – information about club, how Queer Rights Movement fits with Women’s Rights Movement
Over the Rainbow Festival
-February 27th, 10am at Mt. Vernon High School
-Everyone should go, we will have a table!
We Need a Queer Youth Space
-Queer Youth getting together talking about what they want to have in Seattle
-Feb 20th, 3pm-6pm at Seattle Central Community College
Sign up for Relay for Life! (http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=21689&pg=entry)
-May 17th(?)
Social Event Planning
-Potluck
--Sunday, March 7th at 3pm
--Meet at Boulevard Park (in case of inclement weather, we’ll go to Nick’s place)
--Bring food (if you want) and fun things to do!
--Around 7, we’ll go to Nick’s for a movie!
Next week we will discuss Safe Space Training and Conference more in depth

Feb 9, 2010

February 9, 2010

Attending: 23
Guests (Sehome High School GSA): 7

Welcome to Sehome High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance!
Check-ins: name, preferred pronouns, favorite form of activism
Review of Safe-Space Rules

Discussion on Boycotting
-“You only vote with a ballot once a year, but you vote with your dollar every day.”
-History of boycotts
--Montgomery Bus Boycott
--Florida Orange Juice
-Human Rights Campaign buyers guide
--Sent out a survey to a whole bunch of businesses, gave them a score on how gay friendly they are
--You can download this online!
-What do you boycott?
--Chik-fil-A
---See below
--Rockstar Energy Drinks
---Owner is just basically a bigot
--CBS
---Super Bowl commercials – refused gay dating site ad, included Focus on the Family ad
--Wal-Mart
---For many reasons
-Who is the “other side” boycotting?
--Pepsi
--McDonald’s
-Chik-fil-A
--Owner donates to Focus on the Family, doesn’t hire gay people or people who aren’t Christian, and WWU brought them to the west coast
--Let’s do something to get them off our campus!
---Switch our “Think About What You Say” event to Spring Quarter and do a Chik-fil-A event in March

Continuation of discussion on getting over internalized homonegativity
-How do you become proud of your identity?

Meeting today!

Hey all! Just a reminder that we are having a meeting tonight - 4 pm in VU 462A! We will be discussing our plans for a boycott of Chik-fil-A, the youth conference, and the faculty safe space training. So come with your thinking caps on!

 

Hope to see you all there!

 

~Sara Tomlin

QAAFA Asst. Coordinator

Valentines Day Event!

Hi everyone! Hope you had an excellent weekend! It's almost Valentines Day, a holiday that can be wonderful for some, and hard on others. In order to try and make this Valentines Day as positive and inclusive as possible QAAFA will be having an event this Friday in Red Square. We will be handing out Hershey's kisses and strips of paper saying "All Love Matters. You are loved." -or- "All Love Matters. You are special." The back will read "Queers and Allies for Activism" and have our logo and e-mail. Please stop by and celebrate this holiday with us!

Thank you!
Midnightblue Auld, QAAFA Events Coordinator

Valentine's Day Event!

Hi everyone! Hope you had an excellent weekend! It's almost Valentines Day, a holiday that can be wonderful for some, and hard on others. In order to try and make this Valentines Day as positive and inclusive as possible, QAAFA will be having an event this Friday in Red Square. We will be handing out Hershey's kisses and strips of paper saying "All Love Matters. You are loved." -or- "All Love Matters. You are special." The back will read "Queers and Allies for Activism" and have our logo and e-mail.  If you are interested in helping to pass these out, please e-mail me back here, or at my contact info below. The sign-up times are below. We will also have posters that say "All Love Matters" and "Love Does Not Discriminate."

Thank you!
Midnightblue Auld, QAAFA Events Coordinator
auldm@students.wwu.edu, or Facebook

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Meeting Today 4pm in VU 462 A.

Hello everyone, today's meeting is about boycotts.  We're going to talk about the history and the companies today that are boycott worthy.

 

Also, we're going to continue our conversation last week about how to overcome internalized homonegativity.

 

Don't forget we have an event this Friday: All Love Matters.  We are handing out chocolate with notes from Queers and Allies that say: "All Love Matters.  You are loved." or "All Love Matters.  You are Special."  With Queers and Allies information on the back.  We want to make Valentine's Day accessible to all people and relationships.

 

Thank you,

Josh Foley

Coordinator Queers and Allies for Activism

Minutes 2/2/10

February 2, 2010

Attending: 23

Check-ins: Name, preferred pronoun
A Game of Thumb-Ball!

Quick re-cap: t-shirt sales and GIH proposal
-Sold 53 t-shirts ($530.00)
-Collected 118 signatures for Gender-Inclusive Housing
-GIH proposal was accepted, now want to form a student task force to figure out how to implement it, details of where when and how, etc

Internalized Homonegativity
-Feel bad about yourself, people around you who identify as other than the hetero norm or don’t fit into it, negative feelings about stereotypes
-How do you overcome homonegativity?
-What do you like about being in the queer community? What do you like about yourself?
Things that help approve self-esteem:
-Be involved in the queer community

Drag Show, Friday at 7pm in Concert Hall!
Drag workshop tonight in VU462

VALENTINE’S DAY EVENT!
What:
-All Love Matters!
When:
-Feb 12
Where:
-Red Square
How:
-Strips of paper w/ kisses
--All say: “All love matters”
--Some say: “You are special”
--Some say: “You are loved”
--“Queers and Allies for Activism”, logo, and email on the back
-Posters: “All Love Matters”, “Love Does Not Discriminate”,
-Try to get a table to hold the stock and listserve, but if not, no biggie

Meeting tonight!

Hey all!

 

Just a reminder that we have a meeting tonight at 4 pm in VU 462A! We will be planning our Valentine's Day Event and talking about self esteem. Hope to see you there!

 

~Sara Tomlin

Asst. Coordinator