Minutes from 5/22/11 Exec Meeting

GLOW Exec Meeting Minutes 5/22

I Announcements

A) Drag Show

B) Chuck’s event thing

II Tie dye

A) Come at 4:45 to start set up

B) The Truth About Gay Sex and HIV/AIDS by Chuck Erickson, Wed 5/25 in Cinema 6:00-7:30p

III Evaluations

A) Fave Events

1) Drag show

2) Sex Toy WS

3) Queer Parenting

4) Chris Pureka

5) National Coming Out Day

6) Day of Silence

7) Bjork

8) Purple Day

B) Least Fave events

1) Date Night

2) Masqueerade

C) Future Events

1) More Activism

2) Safe Space WS (work w/ other groups)

3) Queer career ws

4) Parties

5) Discussion

6) Andrea Gibson

7) StacyAnn Chin

8) More Outreach

9) Queer wedding

10) Service trip

11) More volunteering

12) Work w/ HS students

13) QPR in the Fall (probs no earlier than October; and get Chuck and Julie to do it again; get a bunch of groups to sponsor)

14) Educate people by having a “Whatever” board/forum for the W in GLOW

15) Ask Helen to do a talk

16) Need better attendance

17) Perhaps more events that aren’t all about sex

D) Fav Mtg activities

1) Discussion

2) Meeting other people

3) Opening question

4) Get to know you games

E) Least Fave mtg activities

1) Constitution

2) Discussions

3) Get to know you activities that take too long

F) Changes to make for meetings

1) Start on time and have cut off time

2) Have a community ball

3) Better facilitated discussions

4) Have first meeting in Plantz

5) More open-mindedness to minority opinions

6) Have a mtg early in the year focused on all the “Whatevers” that represent the W in GLOW

7) Beginning of the year GLOW and LGBTQ faculty/staff picnic

G) Safety of GLOW

1) More collaboration

2) No more member bashing

3) Could be more diverse

4) Too clique-ey

H) Effectiveness of Exec Board

1) Board gets stuff done

2) Good chemistry together

3) Yay for open board meetings

4) Work more efficiently

5) Make meetings more open to minority opinions

6) Officers need to come to most meetings and events

7) Beware of drama

8) Could be more decisive

9) Good that the board is trying to further define officer roles

IV Things we want to do right off the bat next year

A) Activities fair (get welcome week leaders there :D)

B) GLOW-LGBTQ Faculty/Staff/Family Picnic

C) Educational “Whatever” Mtg/Forum

D) Being Queer in your career panel

Minutes from 5/9/11 Meeting

-Go to the Safe Sex Toy Workshop tomorrow, Tues 5/10 at 8:30pm in Science Hall 102. You will have a chance to win one of 41 sex toys!

-We are still raising money for Shack-a-thon, so if you'd like to support Habitat for Humanity, you can give it to anyone on the exec board (Meghan H, Sophie D, Stacy M, Sam F, Val N, Reiko R, or Deborah L)

-Stacy, Reiko, and Shannon will be dumpster diving for Shack-a-thon on Thurs 5/12. Meet us outside Wriston at 4:30pm if you'd like to help. We will be meeting at 1pm on Sat 5/14 at GLOW house to gather our materials and build

-Popcorn booth at Zoo Days on Sat 5/14 from noon til 5pm. Contact Sophie if you'd like to help

-If you have time, support Deborah’s event and learn about printmaking at Wriston on Saturday 5/14 from noon to 5pm. There will be artwork and free food!

Minutes from 5/8/11 Exec Meeting

GLOW Exec Meeting Minutes 5/8

I QPR ask about Friday 5/20 @6pm? –discuss at mtg

II Zoo Days

A) Another group is already doing face painting so we might want to invest in a GLOW cone, pop corn, or cotton candy machine instead

III Shack-a-thon-we need people to help us

A) Bake sale made $47.75

B) See if we can get more donations from members

C) Stacy needs to find out how to deposit $ and write a check

D) Dumpster diving anyone?

IV Meghan talked to Jesse from Harmony

A) We didn’t have volunteers for Night of Noise last month L

B) Involvement w/ the partnership J

C) Possibly do a Tye-Dye event w/ them. Date and time?

V Drag Show

A) There are about 90 people rsvp’d on FB

B) We got some more people interested in performing acts

VI Discussion for Monday

A) Acceptance/non-acceptance of queer people in other countries

B) Let’s take it outside if the weather is nice

VII Budget comes in tomorrow 5/9

VIII Plan goals for Fall/Year

A) Joint GLOW/Gender Studies Bjork Trip!

B) Tristan Taoromino and Kate Bornstein

IX Sophie-create a google share?

X Reiko-email Helen a list of things needed from ITS

I like baked goods. Do you like baked goods? I think you should like baked goods.

Hey everyone,

GLOW will be having a bake sale in the library today (Sun 5/8) from 1pm-5pm in order to raise money for Habitat for Humanity's Shack-a-thon. We hope to see you there!

Ps-A reliable source tells me there will be some magical rainbow cupcakes and rainbow jello!

Minutes from 5/2 Meeting!

Thanks to Reiko for the notes! I'll be back with y'all next week!

• The drag show which was originally scheduled for this saturday 5/7 has been moved to Fri 5/27
• Sex Toy Workshop in science hall Rm 102 @ 8:30pm
• If you volunteered to poster for the Sex Toy Workshop please put them up by this Fri 5/6
• This weekend we will be doing some fundraising this weekend to raise money for Shack-a-thon. Look out for emails from Damon and Meghan H. for more info on this.
• Shack-a-thon on 5/14- Contact Reiko if you'd like to help
• Ormsby Zoo Days on 5/14-Contact Meghan H. if you'f like to help face paint
• Liz Tracey and Mario Gil are doing a study on how mood is affected by perceptions of people. They are looking to fill gaps in queer representation in psychological studies. Contact either of them if you'd like to help
• Support Sophie this weekend by going to see The Tempest