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Admin meeting this Monday

Posted on May 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Summer is coming up and we’re not sure what The Network is going to look like now that Winter Term is over! But we’re planning on talking about it very soon, aka next Monday, at our next admin meeting. How organized of us. 🙂

So if you’re interested in getting involved in The Network, if you have ideas that you’d like to share, or if you just want to learn more about how we work, what we do, etc., please join us! Everyone is very much welcome.

WHEN: Monday, May 16 at 4pm
WHERE: Room 315 in IK Barber Library.
(The room is a little complicated to find, make sure to arrive a little early!)

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Upcoming Global LGBTQ event (Mar 7)

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Thank you for making this month’s First Friday (and the admin meeting before that) another successful evening for The Network!

In the next few days, you will start to notice some changes on the website – our admin meeting on Friday was very productive and we’re going to be working to make some changes in the next little while. I will let you know all about it once a few key changes have been made; for now, I would like to at direct you to our new Feedback page.

First, I wanted to let you know about a queer-related event happening on Monday. Please read the message below and consider attending if you are interested.

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This is just an email reminder for the next Global LGBTQ meeting next month. We hope to cover and expand upon the ideas brought out of the “Does it get better?” forum last January and start planning activities and research initiatives in and around the UBC campus. Here are just some of the few topics we covered last meeting and hope to talk about in our next meeting:

1) Connecting global and local contexts and responses to homophobic and transphobic violence.
2) Connecting LGBTQ scholars and those who are interested in queer and lgbtq research and issues at UBC.
3) Planning future events on homonationalism, homophobic violence, discrimination within lgbtq communities and queer acts of resistance and healing.
4) Creating a research network at the Liu Institute for queer scholars and research.

The next meeting will be:

Monday, March 7th
10:00-13:00
Liu Institute, 3rd Floor Board room

Please share this to your friends and colleagues. The more the merrier!

https://blogs.ubc.ca/queergrads/feedback/

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February’s First Friday will be a business meeting

Posted on February 2, 2011 by | Leave a comment
The beginning of February is almost upon us and it seems that there is some collective interest in holding a “business meeting” as opposed to our usual “First Friday” social event.  Now that we have quite a few people who are eager to be a part of this network it seems like it’s a great time to have a meeting of minds and discuss things like:
– What do we want this network to look like going forward?
– What needs to queer grad students have and how can this network help to meet them?
– What are some ideas for future events?
– What strategies should we use to spread the word to more queergrads?
– Do we want to get any “official” recognition from the university?
– What are some ideas for future social events?
– etc.!

We hope you can join us for what I’m sure will be a lively and productive meeting!  We will be holding the meeting in the Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) because this was the easiest place to book a room, but in the future we can certainly hold it elsewhere if ANSO is not convenient for folks.  One advantage of ANSO is that it’s just a hop, skip, and jump away from Koerner’s Pub so if people want to continue the discussion over a couple of beers after the meeting ends, that will be very easy to arrange.  Please note that we are keeping the meeting to only one hour in recognition of the fact that we are all very busy people, so if you can make it, please do your best to come a few minutes early–we’ll begin promptly at 3:00!

Here are the DETAILS:
When: Thursday, Feb. 3rd, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Where: ANSO 2107 (main level, right next to the Sociology Main office)

Questions/Comments: Send an email to queergrads.ubc@gmail.com.

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This is starting to look vaguely organized!

Posted on November 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Our second meeting is fast approaching (it is this Friday at 6pm – email us for the location), I hope to see a lot of new faces there! 🙂

We’re still working on getting the word out and setting up effective communication (we’re still working on getting the GSS to send out an email to all grad secretaries), but hopefully the following tools will help:

1) A listserv! Use the text box below to add your email to our listserv, and we’ll make sure to email you about events and meetings so you can stay in touch. I’ve also added this subscription box to the far-right column so that people can easily sign up when they visit the website.

Google Groups
Subscribe to The Network
Email:
Visit this group

2) A Facebook page. Same idea as the listserv, but some of us prefer to stay in touch with Facebook, so we want to give you that option.

If you have suggestions on how to help us get the word out about The Network, drop us a line or come join us on Friday!

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First post

Posted on November 6, 2010 by | 3 comments

The Network: Queer Grad Students is the University of British Columbia’s queer graduate student association. Our central mission is to provide a community and support network for queer graduate students throughout the university. We also aim to provide opportunities for academic and professional collaboration among graduate students interested in sexuality studies.

Our regular meetings, called “First Fridays” are held at 6:00 pm on the first Friday of each month in a social setting. If you are interested in connecting with other queer graduate students, please join us! All are welcome. If you have questions or comments, please contact queergrads.ubc@gmail.com.

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