Monday, September 24, 2012

First meeting of Fall 2012 Semester!

Hello All!

We hope you're ready for an exciting year of events here at Ramapo with Pride. We've got a lot of fun and enlightening things planned, and can't wait to share them with you! We are looking forward to starting our Pride Queer 101 Panels or "Ganels" back up, and meeting classes from all over campus.

Monday, September 24th, 2012 Meeting Agenda:

Introductions/ Icebreaker-

Important Business-

*Upcoming Events:

VENT: Queer Peer Listening Group, 9:30 pm in the Women's Center, Monday nights, weekly.
Description from Orgsync: VENT (Very Empowering Nighttime Talking) is a safe, supportive, comforting, and confidential queer peer listening group open to queer-identified college students and straight allies. This group welcomes members of the community to connect to their experiences on a more personal level. Students typically express every day concerns, both queer-related and non-queer-related. For more information or other concerns, please contact Queer Peer Services at qps@ramapo.edu.

A Night OUT Picnic, 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm, Friday, September 28th, 2012 @ the Laurel Courts.
Description from Orgsync: Do you love Moe’s? (We know you do.) Join us for a Moe’s themed picnic: first come first served! A Night OUT is a LGBTQA monthly series designed to bring the queer community together for a fun evening out. Straight allies are always welcome!

And October 1st will mark the beginning of Queer History Month, with an event centered around the keynote speaker, Jennifer Miller at 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm in the Sharp Theater.
Description from Orgsync: Jennifer Miller is a playwright, performer and the director and founder of Circus Amok. She has been working with alternative circus forms, theater, and dance for over twenty years. Miller will discuss her experiences as a bearded woman, working as a circus performer, and her unique relationship with gender. Brief performances (i.e. straight-jacket escape, sword swallowing) will follow lecture and Q&A.

* Sign-Ups for interest in helping with Queer History Month/ Breast Cancer Awareness Month events:
-sheet passed around.

* Ganel training interest sheet.

* Ganel sign-ups for tomorrow's, 9/25/12, panels.

* Finally- our discussion of the day will be lead by Robin, who has come to speak about the great opportunity of acting as a student volunteer for the 12th annual LGBTQA + Leadership Conference which is being held at Ramapo College this year.

http://lgbtqaleadershipconference.com/


Take Care, and see you next week!



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Ramapo Pride provides a safe environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning (LGBTIQQ) students and allies. Our organization is built around providing activist and educational programming, but also providing a social network for LGBTIQQ students on campus. It holds weekly meetings and organizes social, educational and activist programs for the campus at large. Ramapo Pride meets weekly in C220 at 1 p.m. on Mondays. Our hour long meetings give the members a chance to talk about up and coming events (both on- and off-campus) as well as develop programs and activities that will bring the organization's goals into effect. Meetings also give the opportunity for members to discuss issues that are affecting the LGBTIQQ community both on- and off-campus.