Welcome & Basics of Liberation at SURHUL.

Welcome to the Equalitea blog post! It's great to see you here!

This is the official blog for my position, where I'll be keeping you up to date with the ins and outs of my position. There's plenty to talk about - so where to begin!?

Let's start by explaining my role, and how it's going to change.

I chair and work with the Inclusion & Representation Senate, which has representatives (as elected by you) from a variety of liberation branches, a few officers, students, and finally our wonderful Sabbatical Officers. The main roles are like so;

• BME Rep (Black & Minority Ethnic)
• LGBT+ Rep (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans, and anyone else who doesn't identify as hetero-normative)
• Disability Rep (can be both visible and invisible)
• Women & Marginalised Gender Rep 
• Various Hall Reps (for on campus or off campus)
• Postgraduate Officer
• International Students Officer

Together we decide on campaigns to run, on issues that need to be promoted and also how to make both our university and union more accessible. All students are welcome to these senate meetings to help decide how to make this all possible. It's also where we hold each other to account, catch up on the progress each one has been making and support intersectionality between reps.
You can run for any of the above representative roles (apart from LGBT+ Rep, which is already taken!) at the GM on Tuesday 2nd October. The Officer positions are elected in cross-campus elections later in the year.

Later this year, however, it will be changing.

The first four representatives mentioned will become Officers in their own right, and my role will make way for this. This allows our union to focus on liberation and rightly attributes more value to liberation. 

This is why I will also be helping the development of activists from these groups - to create a strong liberation station for the movement to progress from.

Soon, I will write more about each position and what I have been up to.

Until then keep an eye out for The Wilding (AWESOME FemSoc publication!) where I have written an article about Liberation at our Union! I will also let you know how Welcome Week went, and prepare you for the first GM of the year on the 2nd October!

Over and out!