Women’s Officer Report 18/01/09 – 25/01/09

Women’s Officer Report 18/01/09 – 25/01/09

Sunday 18/1/09
- Wrote the first draft of the new information for the Students’ With Caring Responsibilities section of the union website.

Monday 19/1/09
- Planning meeting for pirates of Pangaea
- Meeting with student
- Finished the plans and handout for the trans training for hall mentors workshops.
- Wrote the Reclaim the Night Press Release
- Developed the plan for the liberation workshops in election time.
- Visited a feminist activist from York St John about setting up a women’s group.
- Visited the Leeds Met Women’s Officer to plan some joint activities.
- Visited the Women’s Conference Delegate from Bradford College to help write an amendment

Tuesday 20/1/09
- More planning and promotion for Reclaim the Night North.
- Worked with a woman on how to build on experience from being a women’s officer in the future.
- Got performers on board with Reclaim the Night and confirmed speakers.
- Rewrote Lysistrata – the feminist play this year and started advertising getting people to come along.
- Registered Reclaim the Night as a volunteering opportunity with MLP to get more people involved.

Wednesday 21/01/09
- More writing for Lysistrata
- Contributed to the NUS LGBT and Women’s campaign – ‘Women in LGBT History Month’.
- More work for Pirates of Pangaea
- Casework
- Gave a student advice on housing options for next year.
- Attended Exec meeting.

Thursday 22/01/09
- Meeting about vocational human rights MA students doing work experience in the students’ union.
- Reclaim the Night North volunteers planning meeting.
- Pre-meeting with Gilbert meeting
- Stewarded the Gaza demo to ensure no-one was hurt, nothing was obstructed and no exam-disruption occurred
- Emailed organisations in Manchester about Reclaim the Night
- Riveters Meeting

Friday 23/01/09
- Arranged torches for Reclaim the Night.
- Arranged travel for 14th Feb event – Gender, Race and Class.
- Sourced DVDs for Open Media and Riveters film nights.
- More promotion for Reclaim the Night.
- Wrote the ‘Hard-To-Reach Students’ workshop for the Course Rep Conference.
- Continued re-writing Lis (the Riveter’s play).
- Attended the Riot Showgrrrl club, a fundraiser for the London Feminist Network to promote Reclaim the Night North.

Sunday 25/01/09
- Finished the first draft of Lis.
- Promoted the planning meetings for the event.
- Met with the other ‘team leader’ for the play.