Feb. 22 2010 WSAC Agenda
“Sentenced to Marriage” evaluations: went well, but we need to promote our film screenings more. We hope to start cross promoting our film series with La Raza’s. Aidan is looking into this.
Need more sign-ups for tabling on Fridays: If you want to volunteer to table in Coffman for WSAC, see the sign-up sheet on our dry erase board.
Room allocation: application due this week. Grace and Andrea are on it.
Fees: initial recommendation this Wednesday 2/24. Giant thank you to all who worked on this. WSAC internal fees mtg: 2/25 6pm.
Ross Neely from Transgender commission and GLBTA Programs office to discuss Genderheads: informal discussions about our gendered lives. WSAC will host a genderheads discussion about intimate partner abuse within the queer community. March 23rd, noon-1:30pm in CMU 202. For more info on Genderheads, email Ross at neely010@umn.edu.
2/24 11:30am S.O.S. Coalition planning meeting for March 4th, the National Day of Protest for Education Rights. WSAC representatives: Meghann and Kira.
2/26 10:30am Grace, Sophie and Molly meet with Nathan from Tubman about the benefit concert. Anyone interested in helping plan the event welcome to join.
2/26 3pm: constitution revision meeting? Rescheduled, date TBD.
Eating Disorder Awareness Day! This Friday, 2/26. Thanks to Britt for working on this! We have a full day of events:
11-1 letter writing to praise companies who show healthy bodies in their ads, with free lunch from Wally’s Falafel and button making.
1:30 speaker Claire Salmen
2:30 yoga! please bring your own mat if you have one
7:30 movie: “America the Beautiful” with healthy snacks provided
Please invite your friends on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=13932972#!/event.php?eid=452121405612
“Political Repression and State Violence from Minneapolis to Palestine” an event with Dhrouba bin-Wahad, former US political prisoner and Black Panther. This is a WSAC co-sponsored event with WAMM and other groups. See you there! 3/1 7pm in Blegen 5.
Our next edition of Global Women will be on Thurs., March 3rd at 6pm. We will be showing “Highway Courtesans” (find the description here: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c654.shtml). Cosponsored with Amnesty.
Feministing! Look for promo leading up to this event in the Daily and on Radio K! March 10th, in the evening, cosponsors include UPCC, Women’s Center, possibly Queer Women, QSCC, and the GWSS dept! More info to come.
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