Thursday, January 7, 2010

Club Meeting Notes, week of January 4-8




Our club met twice last week to say hello to each other & to begin actively planning our soon upcoming participation in the campus Club Kick-Off. Our second meeting resulted in the above pictured work for a project in progress.

Member Jesse shared with us an Uganda news story that she has been following, saying "Among some what the bills proposes is massive programs to "cure" homosexuality, trials and imprisonment, and even execution! Also, it has been recently suggested Ugandan citizens can be extradited internationally to be put on trial for suspected homosexuality (meaning anywhere in the world -- America, France, Brazil - anywhere - they can be dragged back against their will to be put on a trial which in no means could ever be fair.)" See Jesse to discuss it &/or use this link for the full story, the link is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34345821/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#storyContinued

Alumni Member, Brittany (Baker)shares this poem with us:
HAPA HAOLE WAHINE1
“In order to feel safe I need to feel known....Is visibility safety? Complex questions. Uncomfortable, uneasy answers,
stirring up old hurts, old angers, old fears....Why is the possibility of ‘passing’ so insistently viewed as a great privilege...,
and not understood as a terrible degradation and denial?” – Evelyn Torton Beck, Nice Jewish Girls 2
Brittany says "This poem was written in 1989 but I just discovered it and fell in love. Had to share!" Its link is
http://www.lanikaahumanu.com/hapahaole.shtml

Please stay in touch with the club officers, check your email, the facebook, & your twitter messages to know when each week we will be meeting where. Yes, we have several projects we are working on for Club Kick-Off.