I've been very busy this week, so here's a quick update on what I'm working on. To get involved please email me (address below).
World AIDS Day in on the 1st December every year. This year we’re selling red ribbons for National AIDS Trust (NAT) and screening a recent documentary on the AIDS epidemic since the 90s on Wednesday 4th December.
Action on Russia
I’m in the process of trying to organise a speaker tour of a Russian exile for British universities to talk about their experiences and the experiences of their friends in Russia under Putin’s new homophobic laws. It’s slow in progress, but hopefully it will get organised for next year.
I’m also trying to find out about any plans for a demonstration outside the Russian embassy on the first day of the Sochi Olympics (7th February). Again, progress is slow, but that will hopefully be organised in the next few weeks.
LGBT+ forum
Sadly only 1 person joined me in Imagine on Monday for the
first LGBT+ forum; however we did manage to work out what we can do to get more
people there in the future. I’ll be organising another one for a Wednesday at
5pm. The next meeting will be a re-run of this meeting, where we’ll be
discussing what we as a union can do to help in the struggle of LGBT+ Russians
against the repressive regime there at the moment.
Trans Media Watch
talk
On Wednesday, Helen Belcher from Trans Media Watch gave a talk on trans
representation in the media in a collaboration with the SURHUL Women and Marginalised Genders Network. The talk was really informative, particularly around
Helen’s report to the Leveson Inquiry and the change in the media from
completely misrepresenting trans people to representing them, but in a negative
way. (Follow-up blog to come soon.)
Like my new page on Facebook here, and If you have any LGBT+
issues please email me at lgbt@su.rhul.ac.uk
Jack
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