Minutes 4-7-06
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April 7, 2006 Minutes

UC Irvine

Attendees:
UC Davis: Sheri Atkinson (Vice Chair), Rachel Messer, CJF
UC Irvine: Chris Browning, Stephanie Chang, Joe Crespo, Norenda Heng, Daniel Kang, Lena Nguyen, Lia Sperka, Pat Walsh
UC Riverside: Raquel Bernaldo (Student Chair), Matthew Davis, Caitlin Eubanks, Marlenne Felix, Jami Grosser, Lenie Lim, Bryon Nuttall, Tai Rockett, Nancy Tubbs (Chair)
UC San Diego: Pepper Anan

Not present: UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UCOP

Meeting started at 5:06P

Introductions

Review/Approval of Minutes
o Missing sections of minutes from breakout groups
o If minutes approved it is assumed that the one’s from Santa Cruz breakout groups will be included.
o Will have separate document that also have notes on special discussions with introduction to put in context
o We will pullout the recommendations from the caucus notes and add them to the official minutes and discuss them at the next SCOM, we will also add the special caucus minutes from special breakout groups from SB and they will be available on the web
o Put suggestions in minutes also and have and discuss about them at Merced
o Motion to approve the minutes by Norenda
o Minutes approved

Suggestions for future meetings:
o Have breakout session at end of SCOM meetings to discuss triggers and such
o Ask during introductions what pronoun people want to use

Some Concerns & Additional Discussions continued from Santa Cruz

  • Some recommendations were not being heard and it was consistent that the same people who were not being heard and the same people were not hearing; Brought up that folks in SC still weren’t being heard even when brought it up in SB
  • Automatically say “white allies” and think all are allies (not true)
  • Labeling as “QPOC issues” aren’t accurate, should be everyone’s issues instead
  • Interesting that conversations continued from Santa Barbara up until now
  • How do you raise concerns about comments being made; No clear way to address or call out triggers: ok doing and ok hearing?, when do you call it out?

Ideas:
o Possibly have conversation on triggers?; Triggers can be addressed during a meeting or after
o Campuses should raise consciousness before the meeting to avoid problems during meetings
o Do own homework and discuss privilege and social justice in general and how they intersect: do consciousness raising on own campus before arriving
o We shouldn’t be too PC because it just affects the productivity of the meeting; Need to understand that no one’s perfect, no need to be PC so that we can get real stuff out

Fall Fall 2006 SCOM @ UC Merced (Date, Elections)
o Tentatively November 4th Week 5 or October 21st Week 1
o November 4th (Yes 9 No 0 Abstains 11)
o November 4th approved

Elections at Merced
o Chair position: 2 year, currently enrolled undergrad/grad student, staff, faculty, attended 1 meeting before
o Student chair (undergrad or grad): 1 year, currently enrolled

Western Regional Conference, 2007 at UC Riverside (Feb16-Feb18, 2007)
o Possible speakers are Cho, Adelina Anthony performance, Loraine Hutchins, Mr. Sulu (Star Trek)
o Planning on asking Outfest
o How do UCR students feel about hosting the conference?
o UCR students are in favor of hosting the conference
o Took schedule from last time Riverside hosted to forecast event
o Might rain but think have it covered
o Last minute suggestion to host at Riverside so not that much money
o UC’s will pitch in for some things as well: keynotes, etc.
o Maybe no Sunday brunch due to money issues? We’ll see…
o It’ll be advertised for non-UC’s as well to attend
o Suggestions to UCR

  • More culturally diverse workshops
  • Gender neutral restrooms
  • More mobility (golf carts)
  • Don’t make people choose (bisexual caucus vs. qpoc caucus)
  • Advertise in all the states and Cal States
  • Lots of anti-racism and culture, evaluations said negative and positive, love / hate relationship
  • Disabilities not considered: mobility issues for some
  • Making space for everyone
    o Ex: bisexual person of color and only bisexual caucus and people of color caucus, etc.
    o Need multi-racial spaces as well
  • Can’t please everyone anyway and don’t take it personally

General Assembly @ Students of Color Conference
o Saturday: noon to 1pm
o Humanities Trailers (HICF 100K)
o How want to facilitate / do it? Ideas?

  • Nothing to vote on
  • What is the Student Agenda?
  • Networking and sharing ideas
  • Dialogues / breakouts
  • Racial issues
  • Queer-phobia in communities of color: working with communities of color organizations
  • 1st part general dialogue, 2nd part networking
  • Leadership roles in different communities
  • Having posters with topics and/or questions to consider
  • What can UCLGBTIA do for the community?
  • What we’ve done in the past and what we can do in the future
  • Handouts with what UCLGBTIA is about
  • The state of campus communities at different schools
  • If working on similar campaigns, connect through meeting
  • Need to advertise for the meeting to entice students to come to the General Assembly
  • Need evaluations
  • Giving an introduction to the SCOM for students of color conference attendees
  • Breakouts dialogues
  • Other updates of things that have happened on campuses?

CAMPUS UPDATES

UC Irvine
Blood Drive Initiative,
o educating those who give blood, student government;
o Planning an action against it: hopefully passing legislation
o On-going
o UCSB doing something also?
o Info also on UCLGBTIA website with action suggestions: education; Ex: Comp time if give blood but if queer can’t, so no access to that element
Having dance: “Club Q”
o Next Wednesday
o $5
o Drag performance
Military are allowed to come onto campuses even though they discriminate against queers
o Hastings court ruling
o Fed law: if campus not allow military then not get federal funding
o More info on UCLGBTIA website
Religious organizations on-campus and can hold values against queers and prevent them from participating
o Allowed to discriminate
o Privileging of allowing some to come onto campus and some not

UC Riverside
Transgender health benefits
o USHIP: controlled by health advisory committee
o GSHIP: controlled by graduate student committee
o Both asking during bids for how much cost to add transgender surgery for all campuses
o Fear if only one campus then they suffer cost if all trans go to that school
o Money and political issue
Gender neutral restrooms
o Recognizing them on campus
Suicides / attempted suicide / mental health on-campus
o NOTE: at meeting at SB, voted to have as an Action Item at Santa Cruz but didn’t
happen; : look at ways to address suicide prevention and response
o Will make into Action Item in Merced
United Students Against Sweatshop Campaign
Posters around campus that heighten awareness about queer community
QPOC posters
Opening a David Bohnett Cyber center

UC San Diego
QPOC high school conference @ UCSD
Dances 9PM-1AM
New Space: David Bohnett Cybercenter (10 labtops), 2700 sq. ft.
Grand Opening: May 6th, 10:30-12pm
Intern for Anti-Racism program this quarter: Judy Helfand presenting (she was at NGLTF conference), April 24th, “Who’s Community: Understanding Whiteness / Unraveling Racism in the Queer Community”
Day of Silence Committee: one of the largest contingency in the nation, 400 participants this year (by T-shirt count…usually 200 more who didn’t get t-shirts but participate anyway) LGBTQIA Dances: April 22nd and May 6th
 Note: Has a sign that fits federal and campus codes: ask Shaun to share the Gender neutral bathroom sign with listerv, can we host a SCOM meeting in new space?

UC Davis
3rd annual intersex awareness week
Planning Trans-Action week (November)
Rise Up – come up with topics such as image, cultural appropriation, what does it mean, cha cha’s and doing the nasty, didn’t they teach you not to talk about that and host a bring your own lunch thing; Appropriation within queer community, Open to staff, faculty, students, Dialogue / workshop
Queer heroes
Survivors Everywhere Campaign
o Childhood sexual assault awareness
o Safe space for growth and healing
o Brown ribbon campaign: sexual assault awareness (Teal is for sexual assault victims of all kinds) If you need anything, posters, ribbon templates let UC Davis know

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