In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)

Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We had our discussion on gentrification on Saturday. It had a solid turnout, despite the fact that we had a lot of competition as far as interesting stuff happening around town on the only non-Husker Gameday in September. Ty thinks that if we’re going to lead off a discussion with some potentially lengthy background, as happened Saturday, that we should offer the clarification that we can be interrupted so that we’re not monopolizing the conversation.

2. Buttons – Ty has been hung up on logistics details concerning the labels we want to put on the backs of them. We took some time to look around at options. We decided we can use ones that are 1″ by 0.5″, but at that size we’ll probably only have space to print our website on them.

3. October Events – We took some time to put up our upcoming October events on Facebook and begin to promote them online.

Tabled: Columbus Day protest, Copy Machine, data entry, LGBT fundraiser

Meeting adjourned: 8:25 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Donation – A Novel Idea gave us $200 as the spring beneficiaries of their Thank You Tuesdays! We should thank them on social media. We’ll be adding the donation to our general treasury for now.

2. Buttons – Ty has been giving out lots of our pronoun buttons. We’ll need to print more soon. Ty also reminds us that we need to get stickers with BCH info to put on the backs of them. We also had a request to add a “No Pronouns” option to our line of pronoun buttons. We might also need more pride flag buttons soon. Ty reports we are out of pansexual buttons. Ty will also see about whipping up a BCH button.

3. Copy Machine – We took some meeting time to set up our new copy machine.

Tabled: Data entry

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Event Reviews – Sama et al performed here on Thursday. It was a good show, and turnout was ok despite us unintentionally competing with the much-larger DIO Fest. We should’ve got the fliers up sooner, but there’s probably not much else we could’ve done better. Sama mentioned she was planning to drop in here again on her next tour.

We also watched Killing Us Softly 4 on Saturday. Turnout was low, but the conversation was good. Jackson would like to show it again someday, as it’s a good film. Ty suggests adding the subtitle “Advertising’s Image of Women” as a way of making the subject matter more obvious next time. (This was also unfortunately competing with DIO Fest.)

2. Upcoming Event – Trekkies returns on Friday. We’re ready for it.

3. Calendar Distro – Ty is working on it. It should be done by Friday.

4. Buttons – UNL’s LGBTQA Resource Center is planning to a button-pressing event on campus Saturday night, but their button parts never arrived! Ty proposes that we offer to let them use our press and sell them 300 sets of our available parts. We decide that it would be ok to this, if they can pay us $30 for the parts.

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We watched Grave of the Fireflies on Saturday. It was sad.

2. Copy Machine – Jackson hasn’t found a copy machine yet, but a bit of research has been done. More research will need to be done, to make a good choice for our needs.

3. Email setup – Ty has set up his BCH email addresses, and has possibly got Jackson’s up too. Hooray!

4. Sama – Jackson still needs to send a follow-up email to Sama. Ty and Jackson have distributed fliers for the concert. Ty will share it around Facebook a bit more.

5. Website – Our new WordPress site is up and active on our blackcathouse.org and theblackcathouse.org URLs! We still need to do a bit of data entry to replace some of the old minutes that are still only on the old site. Jackson has contacted Ella for some help with that.

6. Fall calendar –

Thursday, September 10th, 7 PM – Lincoln Secular Humanist Meeting
Friday, September 11th, 7 PM – Movie Night: Anarchism in America
Saturday, September 19th, 1-3 PM – What is Gentrification? (a community discussion)
Saturday, October 3rd, 7 PM – Movie Night: Food, Inc.
Friday, October 9th, 7 PM – Trekkies For Humanism: “Mortal Coil” (Star Trek: Voyager)
Monday, October 12th, 5-6 PM (at the Federal Building – 16th and O St.) – Indigenous People’s Day Rally
Saturday, October 17th, 1-3 PM – Protest: What is it Good For? (a community discussion)
Sunday, November 8th, 5 PM – Movie Night: Reds
Saturday, November 21st, 1-3 PM – Transgender Rights: Our Struggles, Our Victories, Our Future (a panel discussion)

Tabled: Copy Machine, Facebook
Meeting adjourned: 8:47 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We showed 416 on Saturday night. Turnout was a bit low, but the discussion was very good.

2. Upcoming Event – Trekkies For Humanism returns this Friday. We’re ready for it. We’ll be sure to plug it on Facebook in the next couple of days.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson bought some new dry-erase markers for the house, as ours were dried out. We reimburse him $3.21 for the expense.

4. Copy Machine – We still need to replace ours. Jackson will see what he can find locally. We’re thinking we have a budget of around $200.

5. Sama – The concert/discussion is coming up fast! Sammi reports he is nearly done with our flier. Jackson will be making the Facebook event at the conclusion of the meeting tonight, and will also be sending Sama another follow-up email.

6. Fall Calendar – Ty still needs some digital files to build the calendar; he’ll need to contact Ashley about that.

Meetings are returning to Monday nights at 7 PM. Open hours will not return for fall.

Will we continue to run Trekkies For Humanism?

September
Thu, Sep 10, 7 PM – LSH meeting
Fri, Sep 11, 7 PM – Movie Night: Anarchism in America
Sat, Sep 19, 1-3 PM – What is Gentrification? discussion
October
Sat, Oct 3, 7 PM – Movie Night: Food, Inc.
Mon, Oct 12, 5 PM? (Federal Building) – Anti-Columbus Day protest
Sat, Oct 17, 1-3 PM – Why protest? (Title TBD) discussion
November
Sun, Nov 8, 5 PM – Movie Night: Reds
Sat, Nov 21, Time TBD – Transgender Day of Remembrance panel discussion (Title TBD)

Discussion tabled for the night. We hope to finish the calendar next week.

Tabled: Fall calendar, Facebook usage?

Meeting adjourned: 8:25 PM

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Elysium is tomorrow! We’ll make sure the room is set up for it after the meeting tonight, since Ty can’t attend.

2. Quorum – Jackson and Ty discussed lowering the quorum from three to two. Ashley has submitted an absentee vote once contacted on the matter in agreement. It passes.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson is asking reimbursement for printing button designs and fliers. He paid $2.14 for this, and he’ll be reimbursed for this.

3.5. An announcement: Jackson says that he got the email stating that our web hosting will be renewed in 60 days. Since were considering changing formatting for the site, we should get in touch with Ella for advice on how to proceed.

4. Sama – Sama has sent another email. She approved of the early start time and would encourage local community members who have something to say on queer/trans issues to attend. We will need to make a flier for the event, as well as get a Facebook event up.

5. Graphics – Ashley can no longer make graphic designs for us. Ty has asked that she send editable files to him so he can potentially work on them from here on out. Since we have many templates already, it’s also possible Ella can help us, so we should ask her whether she’d be willing to assist.

6. Fall Calendar – Movies suggested but unable to be implemented last calendar were: In Time, Gasland, and The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. Event ideas were a discussion on protests, a discussion on gentrification, a panel of transgender speakers for TDOR, and a fundraiser for Kurds. LSH also needs to be scheduled for the second Thursday in September. There is also the Anti-Columbus Day protest on October 12th. There is the potential of Trekkies, but we need to decide how to continue it.

Consideration needs to be taken to make sure events don’t overlap with Husker game days because of traffic issues. Ty also requests scheduling around the LGBTQA Resource Center’s events, due to beginning to work there in the fall.

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM