- We meet the first and third Thursdays of the month at 3pm in the Anne Braden Institute, 2nd Floor Ekstrom Library at UofL! Hope to see ya there!
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Feminist Alliance Meeting Notes
3/22/12
1. Woman’s Choice Flyers – Have you seen the flyers that are posted all over campus from the Woman’s Choice student group? I was wondering how everyone feels about doing our own poster in response with our information on it. Something like “Do you want to avoid getting pregnant? Do you want to know ALL of your options if you get pregnant?” Please let me know what you think and we can hang them up when we hang up flyers for our event.
2. Summer Retreat? Application due by March 30th – Not everyone was at the meeting so I didn’t get a real picture of whether or not the group would like to do a planning retreat this summer. The Kentucky Foundation for Women has a house that they open to feminist groups, free of charge, for retreats. I think it would be a great chance for us to get to know one another. I was thinking that we could do it either right after school ends in early May or right before school begins in August. Please let me know if you would like to do this so that I can apply for the space before the deadline.
3. Booklet – is nearly finished and going out for final edits today!
4. Update on speakers and organizations invited – we have two confirmed speakers and the president of Med Students for choice is trying to see if any of the students in his organization can speak. Also, we have 7 confirmed groups who are going to host tables.
5. PR Plan and Update
- Hannah is going to deal with all of the newspapers and media outlets. It would be really good to contact the RSO PR department for help because they may be able to do a news release for us (852-6695).
- Megan will need ALL of our help hanging up flyers on March 29th, 3:30 pm, meet in the Anne Braden Institute. Please email Alisha if you can come.
- Megan is going to make a facebook event and invite all of us. We will also post to our wordpress page.
- Megan is going to need some help with chalking (although she has a few roommates who have volunteered to help as well!). The date hasn’t been decided yet.
6. Activities/Decorations Plan and Update
- We will be doing a raffle for various items that Tasha has procured – Artwork, t-shirts, gift certificate
- We will be selling condom flowers
- There will be feminist music for download
- Tasha is working on a linen for guests to write notes on which we will put near the front of the stage with markers (need to add permanent markers to supply list)
- We will have a sugar table cookie where folks can decorate their own sugar cookies and we will also be giving away mini quiche at this table (easter cupcake holders need to be added to the supply list)
- We will have an egg and spoon race
- We will have an easter egg hunt
- We need to secure prizes for these activities. If anyone knows anywhere they can get a gift certificate donated from, please email them a.s.a.p. and let Tasha or Alisha know. Tasha and Alisha will work on this as well.
7. Budget Update – we still only have $150 for the event so we will need to make the sugar cookies, quiche, and items we need for activities. So—that means a party! Of course! We are going to meet to have a girl fun party on April 1st, 3-7 p.m. at Tasha’s house (email uoflfeministalliance@gmail.com for the address). We will bake, stuff plastic eggs for the hunt, and make condom flowers to sell, eat food and treats, and watch movies while we do all of the above. Please r.s.v.p. to Alisha—we need all of the help we can get! Also, we need everyone who comes to bring a thing of Ziploc bags or disposable Tupperware and muffin pans.
March 1st Meeting Notes
Feminist Alliance Meeting Notes
3/1/2012
In attendance: Alisha West, Josie Timmons, Tasha Nicklow, Hannah Schlaak
Summary:
Thank you for taking notes Josie! Welcome to the group Josie and Tasha!
1. Announcements (see attached flyers):
-International Women’s Day Celebration, March 8th, 6:00 pm, red barn, free
-Norma Ramos Event, March 23rd, 6:000 pm, Speed Art Museum Auditorium, free
-AKA is collecting toiletry items for domestic violence shelters, March 6th, 11-1, SAC
2. Constitution (please see the attached document) – we discussed the constitution, especially the section concerning officers. Per the constitution, we don’t elect specific officers. However, the constitution also calls for the election of a five person leadership group which is something that is not currently in place. However, we barely have that many active members so we decided to just try to split the work as best we can and all take responsibility for our projects and events. We will revisit the issue near the end of the semester after we see how this works.
3. Reproductive Health Booklet:
-Josie and Tasha took the last two sections that need to be updated.
-Hannah finished the section for “All Options Counseling.”
-Alisha finished the section for “Abortion Resources.”
-Tasha will also work on an additional section for “if you were raped.”
-Alisha is working on a “Take Action” section.
-drooker.com has artwork that we can use without charge
-Need to have booklet ready to be printed by March 23rd so please have all documents back to Alisha by March 16th. Thank you!
4. End of semester Reproductive Health Event?
-We decided to do an Easter themed Reproductive Health event the first week of April, Alisha is looking for locations
-We would like to partner with community organization:
-Alisha will contact the Wenches, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention group
-Josie will work with the Center for Women & Families
-Tasha has a contact–I forgot who it’s with. Sorry, please email back with
details
-If you get a chance, please contact A.S.A.P. as we are very short on time
-Does TAP still exist? Tasha, I know you didn’t volunteer for this, but will you please look into it? Thank you!
-Should we invite the Health Promotions office to be involved? Can I get a volunteer?
-Ideas for the event:
-Easter themed
-bobbing for eggs (filled with condoms and other reproductive health items)
-petition to get Plan B in campus vending machines
-invite a pro-choice minister to come speak
-invite women who have had abortions and don’t “regret” it
-We decided that we do need to meet over spring break to work on planning this event. A separate email will be sent about times that work for us all
5. We discussed using our blog more to share poetry, writing, music, photos, art, thoughts, etc. Each active FAUL member who wants to submit will be given access to make updates to the blog. If you would like access, please email the feminist alliance email address.
We also want to link to other feminist blogs that we love so be thinking about that as well. We hope to use some of the submitted items for a print version of our creative works to be released this upcoming fall. Tasha will put together a mock up of to inspire us.
6. We discussed the tabling event for Women’s History Month
-Alisha requested a table for March 20, 11 am – 2 pm
-Tabling Schedule:
Alisha 11-12
Hannah 11-1
Tasha 12-2
Alisha 1-2
-Anyone else who wants to be involved, we would love your help!
-Josie will pick up condoms from the health promotions office and drop them off at ABI in the next week or so
-Alisha will pick up candy this weekend, but everyone is invited to bring some of your favorite candy as well
-Tasha will bring pamphlets on taking care of your infant
-Alisha will bring pamphlets from Center for Women and Families, Planned Parenthood, and ACLU of Kentucky
-Alisha will bring Feminist Alliance flyers, and posters, and an announcement of our event if we have a venue in time
-Alisha will bring flyers for Norma Ramos lecture
7. Everyone, please join the Feminist Alliance on OrgSync. Link: http://louisville.edu/studentactivities/clubs/join-an-organization.html
8. Tasha is going to bring some Riot Grrl music to the next meeting for us and send bunches of links to her podcast and blog!
9. The feminist alliance email address is uoflfeministalliance@gmail.com, please add us to your contacts so that you get our emails.
10. Our facebook page is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Feminist-Alliance-University-of-Louisville/167871026559026. Please ‘like’ us and stay updated.
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Notes from our first meeting
Feminist Alliance Meeting Notes
2/16/2012
In attendance: Alisha West, Jill Sadowski, Victoria Plaskett, Hannah Schlaak, Megan Sims
Summary:
1. We started out by introducing ourselves and Hannah volunteered to take notes. Thank you!
2. Announcements:
-Anti-Trafficking Law Enforcement Panel, Feb. 21st, 12:30-2:00, red barn, cost $2
-Let’s Talk Lunch on Women’s Work & Working Together, Feb. 29th, noon, cultural center, free
-International Women’s Day Celebration, March 8th, 6:00 pm, red barn, free
3. Recap of last semester – we helped defeat the hospital merger through tabling, speaking, and petitioning!!!
4. This semester we have decided to finish working on a resource booklet having to do with reproductive health. The booklet (mostly completed) will include sections on Counseling, Emergency Contraception, Adoption, and Abortion in Kentucky and Indiana. The members of FAUL have divided the booklet into sections and we will review the information in our sections and discuss at the March 1st meeting. We are open to getting help from anyone who wasn’t able to make the meeting though! Also, we discussed the possibility of releasing the booklet at an end of the year reproductive health event that we will host. This will be a lot of work so we also discussed partnering with another community organization for the event. We will discuss more at the next meeting and come to a decision then.
5. All attending members offered to help with PR for the Feminist Alliance. Hannah will announce our group meetings and events in her WGS classes, as will Alisha. Victoria and Megan will help hang posters around campus next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. We are meeting in the Anne Braden Institute Reading room and we welcome anyone who is available to help!
6. We discussed the possibility of tabling for Women’s History month in March. The March 15th meeting has been canceled because it falls during spring break. However, we will probably do the tabling event the week prior or the week after. We will discuss the details at the next meeting. Any feedback on this item is appreciated.
7. Alisha will update OrgSync with our most current information and pick up current pamphlets from local feminist organizations. We will also discuss officer positions at the next meeting after reviewing the RSO information on OrgSync.
Thank you to everyone who attended and we missed those of you who couldn’t. If you can’t make the meetings this semester but you would still like to be involved in anything that we are working on, please email us at uoflfeminstalliance@gmail.com
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New Meeting Time
Hi awesome FEMINISTS!!
We have have set a new meeting time for the Spring Semester. Meetings this semester will be the first and third Thursday of the month. Meeting dates will be: Feb. 16th, March 1st, March 15th, April 5th, and April 19th. I can’t wait to see you all!
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Change of Leadership & New Semester
Hi everyone!
My name is Alisha and for the next semester at least I am going to help with the leadership of the Feminist Alliance while Jill takes a bit of a break. She will still be involved though. Yay! We have changed our email over to gmail because it is easier to send group emails. Our new email address is UofLFeministAlliance@gmail.com. A few items to note:
1. We will be sending out a re-group email very soon to see which is the best day to have meetings this semester.
2. I would love help with the leadership of this group so please let me know if you’re interested.
3. Last semester we were successful at helping to STOP the merger!!! Thank you to everyone who was involved. I have some ideas of what we can work on this semester but I would love to hear from you.
Please feel free to email. Hope to hear from many of you soon!
Alisha West
adwest03@cardmail.louisville.edu or UofLFeministAlliance@gmail.com
509-396-4840
