tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17863401309833533822024-02-19T09:20:45.627-06:00StandOutStandOut provides a platform for positive queer political activism and an inclusive environment for LGBTQ individuals and allies throughout the University of Texas at Austin.StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-44487505557611222142012-02-01T21:58:00.002-06:002012-02-01T21:58:59.635-06:001/31/12 Meeting RecapWe started the meeting with introductions and the ice-breaker, "most awkward elevator story."<br />
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We discussed the change in language from "gender neutral housing" to "gender inclusive housing", and how gender neutral housing sounds very specific and not as encompassing as gender inclusive housing. We discussed some details of the upcoming campaign, such as getting parents of our members to write supportive letters about gender inclusive housing that we can attach to our proposal.<br />
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We then split up into 3 groups: a handout group, a petition group, and a website group, all centered on the gender inclusive housing campaign.<br />
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The handout group worked on handouts to give out when StandOut tables on West Mall next week. The handouts include a logo, a brief description of the campaign, and a tinyurl to the gender inclusive housing tab on our website.<br />
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The petition group worked on creating a petition for UT students to sign, and how to best ensure that the petition will be easy to access while making sure that only UT students are able to sign it (so as to have realistic stats on student support).<br />
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The website group worked on adding a new tab to StandOut's blogspot for gender inclusive housing, and worked out what information to include and how to organize it within the post. They also made a tinyurl for the new tab: www.tinyurl.com/inclusivehousing.StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-34752705130180984422012-02-01T21:40:00.002-06:002012-02-01T21:43:16.836-06:00Gender Inclusive HousingCheck out our new gender inclusive housing tab!StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-74026976560867776192011-10-27T09:24:00.000-05:002011-10-27T09:24:07.977-05:00Be an Ally!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">StandOut is having an "Ally Campaign" all semester to gauge the climate of UT students who are allies and support the LGBT community. The campaign is designed to encourage students to critically think about what it means to be an ally, as well as educate students about the issues affecting LGBT persons.<br />
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What is an "Ally"?<br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">An ally is a member of the majority or dominant group who works to end oppression by supporting and advocating for the oppressed population.<br />
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What can you do to be an ally:<br />
Speak out against homophobia or if you hear someone using homophobic slurs on campus.<br />
Reach out to LGBT students on campus and get a sense of their experiences as an LGBT person.<br />
Get involved in activism for LGBT rights at UT. Attend rallies on campus or contact your representative when anti-LGBT legislation is being pushed.<br />
Get to know the GSC and the resources it provides to students.<br />
Get to know the various LGBT student organizations on campus, and attend one of their meetings.<br />
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Be aware of the issues affecting LGBT persons, at UT specifically or nationwide:<br />
Faculty and staff who aren't married don't have their partners recognized by UT. Therefore, the partners of all LGBT faculty/staff are denied important health insurance and other benefits.<br />
UT does not offer "Gender Neutral Housing" as many other large universities do, resulting in many transgender or gender-nonconforming students to be put in uncomfortable, intimidating, or unsafe living conditions.<br />
Similarly, UT lacks the option of gender-neutral restroom facilities in many buildings.<br />
Nine out of 10 LGBT students (86.2%) experienced harassment at school; three-fifths (60.8%) felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation; and about one-third (32.7%) skipped a day of school in the past month because of feeling unsafe (GLSEN National School Climate Survey 2009).<br />
It is estimated that between 20 and 40 percent of all homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (2006 National Gay & Lesbian Task Force: An Epidemic of Homelessness).<br />
You can be legally fired in 29 states, including Texas, for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.<br />
55% of transgender youth report being physically attacked, and 33.2% of transgender youth have attempted suicide.<br />
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For more information, check out:<br />
UT's own Gender and Sexuality Center: <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/gsc/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://www.utexas.edu/dive</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>rsity/ddce/gsc/</a><br />
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GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network:<br />
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StandOut: Advocates for Queer Equality<br />
Meetings Tuesdays, 7-8pm SAC 3.112</span></span>StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-49818434789700291792011-09-17T12:25:00.011-05:002011-09-17T15:07:09.150-05:00Meeting Recap 9/13/11The meeting began with this video:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bingham">Mark Bingham</a> was a gay man on flight 93 on 9/11 and helped lead a charge against the hijackers and prevented the plane from reaching its intended destination.</div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Name, major, year, and which famous person you'd like to have dinner with. </span><br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Einstein</span></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger">Schrödinger</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk">Harvey Milk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a></li>
<li>Lady Gaga</li>
</ul><b>Group Work:</b><br />
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As part of our awareness campaign we have broken up the work into 4 groups covering different areas of action.<br />
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<u>Demonstrations Group</u>:<br />
<div><i>Direct Action workm so they focus on sit-ins, sleep-ins, die-ins, rallies, protests, etc.</i><br />
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Our first action of a "Campaign Kickoff Celebration" will be on Sept. 26th!</div><div><ul><li>We decided to hold a carnival event from 11-3pm at Gregory Plaza</li>
<li>The goal would be to kick off our awareness campaign</li>
<li>We would try to get tons of random people to attend</li>
<li>We would like 3 tables with:</li>
<ul><li>Ally face paint </li>
<li>Ally pictures booth</li>
<li>Fliers on both StandOut and other queer orgs </li>
</ul><li>We would additionally like music and will be looking to <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/student/mic/MIC_10-11/mic_main.php">the MEC</a> for speakers, possibly working with <a href="http://www.qpocatexas.com/">QPOCA</a></li>
<li>We need to develop a way for people to sign up for times</li>
</ul></div><div><u>Advertising Group</u>:<br />
<i>Makes flyers, covert chalk operations, other means of advertising</i><br />
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We discussed the most effective methods of advertising on and around campus. Ideas included:<br />
<div><ul><li>Posting fliers weekly on kiosks</li>
<li>Having the "Ally" colored signs or something similar for us to distribute online and at events so that people can post it on their dorm windows or doors </li>
<ul><li>We want to concentrate on posting in high traffic areas such as <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/wel.html">Welch</a>, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/jcd.html">Jester</a>, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/rlm.html">RLM</a>, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pcl.html">the PCL</a> and other libraries, and also reaching out to <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/cba.html">typically "heteronormative" pockets of campus</a>, such as the engineering/non-liberal arts buildings</li>
</ul><li>We want to get approval from as many stores on the drag as we can to allow us to post our campaign fliers in their windows</li>
<li>We will begin flyering immediately after the "Campaign Kickoff Celebration" that the demonstration group is organizing</li>
</ul></div><u>Video Group</u>:<br />
<i>Working on filming different people about queer issues in a variety of contexts.</i><br />
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The date we are going to film our first video is now Friday, September 23rd from 12-5 in the afternoon!<br />
<ul><li>We decided that we are going to have a second video asking people to define what it means for them to be an ally or queer individuals, and ask them for their defining moments in either respect</li>
<li>We would like to film around three during coming out week and post them to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/texasstandout">StandOut Youtube page</a> and ask for submissions which we can put all together as a coming out as an ally or queer individual video series</li>
</ul></div><div><u>Web Group</u>:<br />
<i>Sets up the website to coordinate all the action and getting people to visit the site.</i><br />
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The Web group started their project this meeting with everyone making their own Ally Sign!<br />
<ul><li>Our first project is to create a stop-motion video of people holding an Ally sign</li>
<li>We also discussed future plans for how to get more people to make one</li>
<li>We were small this meeting, come join us!</li>
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The meeting ended with everyone participating in the Web Groups project and making an Ally sign and taking a picture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashley Hall - Co-Director</td></tr>
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We started by introducing <a href="http://texasstandout.blogspot.com/p/contact.html">the officers</a> who introduced what Standout <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpR66U4oJvk">has done in the past</a>, and ideas for this semester such as trans housing, volunteer events, and an awareness campaign.</div>
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Then every other person found a new seat and introduced themselves to the person next to them. Everyone then introduced to the group the person next to them with their name, major, year, and 'Song of the Summer'.<br />
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Next, everyone went around and put up an answer to four questions with markers on big sheets of paper. When we were done we discussed each question.</div>
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What queer issues are most important to you?</div>
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- Asexuality issues</div>
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- Homeless advocacy</div>
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- Trans housing on campus</div>
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- Coming out</div>
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- ENDA</div>
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- Protecting the GSC</div>
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Queer individuals that inspire you?</div>
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- <a href="http://www.staceyannchin.com/v2/index.html">StaceyAnn Chin</a></div>
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- Lady Gaga</div>
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What brought you here?</div>
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How do we make change? </div>
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- Volunteering</div>
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The remaining portion of the meeting held announcements. </div>
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- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200114746">HangOut</a> starts 8/31 from 10pm-12am at the Starbucks in the <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/unb.html">Union</a>, and is every Wednesday at the same time and place.</div>
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- The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222460427797074">Queer Welcome Carnival</a> is 9/2 from 5-9pm in the <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/rsc.html">Rec Sports Center</a></div>
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After the meeting a large group headed down to <a href="http://store.tcby.com/home/martinlutherkingboulevard">TCBY</a> for some frozen treats!</div>
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Please join us for our next meeting 9/6 from 7-8pm in <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/sac.html">SAC</a> 3.112 Balcony Room B everyone (including allies!!) is welcome.</div>
StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-50280640629821288132011-06-28T13:03:00.004-05:002011-06-28T13:17:33.524-05:00Welcome Newcomers!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We want to welcome all orientees and new students this summer. We also want to invite anyone from Orientation week 4 to go to the <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/gsc/">Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC)</a> today from 3-4 to meet with the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/texasstandout">StandOut</a> officers and other queer organizations on campus. Everyone b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">e sure to check out our first meeting of the fall semester on August 30th at 7pm in SAC 3.112 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">Balcony Room B, it will be a blast!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">Click the button below to add our first meeting to your Google Calendar.</span><br />
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Below are the minutes from a sample meeting from a previous semester so anyone interested can get a feel for how meetings are run and what the organization is like.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 25px;"> </span>Click on the links in the minutes to see the fulfillment of our plans or for more information about a topic.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br />
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Get More: <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/">Political Humor & Satire Blog</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a></div></div></div><br />
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<b>Discussion:</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Coming Out Week – What should StandOut do for our event for Coming Out Week?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Coming out closet” door on West Mall for people to sign</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://beta.texasmedia.org/content/quiet-community-comes-out">Have a kiss-in</a> with the door display</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/node/1717"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rally?</span></a></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Video:</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_X">Malcolm X</a> debate clip</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WdbQKjr9Bu4" type="text/html" width="360"></iframe></span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Remaining time was a discussion on Competitive Insurance Benefits:</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Overview of the issue</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Faculty Benefits article</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Cooperation vs Separation</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• <a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2010/12/08/departments-work-reform-benefits-glbt-partners">Scott Parks</a>, UT Student Body President spoke at meeting:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <a href="http://www.utsystem.edu/bor/">Board of Regents</a> has ability to change CIB policy</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - All appointees of Gov. <a href="http://governor.state.tx.us/about/">Rick Perry</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• Done in other states</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Using the language “Other qualified individual” allows it to go around <a href="http://governor.state.tx.us/priorities/families/stronger_families/defense_of_marriage_act/">DOMA laws</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Want to bring together <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/staff/pefsa/">faculty, staff</a>, <a href="https://www.texasexes.org/ch/index.asp?c=lgb&m=1">alumni</a>, and <a href="http://cibatexas.blogspot.com/">student groups</a> who are</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">all in support, but are separate</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• There is a void in unified voice for UT at the capitol</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - The bill will be most effective with broad coalition of support</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <a href="http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=49">Elliot Naishtat</a> is expected to introduce the bill</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - More powerful if someone unexpected <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TexasStandOut/status/38444418293829633">brought up issue in session</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - StandOut will serve as a student voice for CIB</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Possibilities of what we can accomplish for CIB as a student org:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TexasStandOut/status/59021492897333248">Testifying</a> in front of Congressional committees</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> • Easy to do</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TexasStandOut/status/27886706285">Can hold another rally</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/cibvideo">Multimedia viral campaign for CIB</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> - Letters to editor</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CIB Rally on Valentines Day 2011</td></tr>
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</div>StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-41733020298643559952011-01-31T02:59:00.000-06:002011-01-31T02:59:35.563-06:00CIB | The Professor Your Professor Could BeWe are having a rally at noon in the West Mall on Valentines day 2/14 in support of CIB. Here is the <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/cibrally">Facebook Event</a>. Share it using <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/cibrally">www.tinyurl.com/cibrally</a>. Here is our video about this issue.<br />
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Share the video using <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/cibvideo">www.tinyurl.com/cibvideo</a>StandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-11188061421044113172011-01-25T20:10:00.001-06:002011-01-25T22:20:52.800-06:00Sign up to Table for the CIB/DPB RallySign up to table in the West Mall! Pick any time from 11-2, you could definitely help even if its just come for an hour. <a href="http://doodle.com/2stzdduxdrck3s83">Sign up here</a>. Stand in the West Mall and hand out fliers and engage people in conversations about this issue!<br />
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We're also ordering T-shirts. If you want to buy one they will be $15, put your size on the doodle below and remember to bring money to next weeks meeting. <br />
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Below we have posted all of our meeting dates and rooms for the Spring semester. Meetings last from 7 pm until 8 pm each Tuesday.<br />
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1/18 - CANCELLED <br />
1/25 - SSB G1.106<br />
2/1 - SSB G1.104<br />
2/8 - Student Union 1st Floor<br />
2/15 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room (in SSB on ground floor)<br />
2/22 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
3/1 - OUTSIDE the Student Activity Center (SAC) - tables next to food court <br />
3/8 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
3/15 - SPRING BREAK (no meeting) <br />
3/22 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
3/29 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
4/5 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
4/12 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
4/19 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
4/26 - Glenn Maloney Student Assembly Room<br />
5/3 - SSB G1.106<br />
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We look forward to a fun and productive semester. Hook 'em!<br />
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Ben Kruger-Robbins and Katie Fife<br />
StandOut Co-directorsStandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-73968389170387875842010-10-06T18:39:00.008-05:002010-10-11T17:58:43.477-05:00Sign Up for Working the Closet DoorTo sign up to stay with the door anytime from 10:30-3, sign up <a href="http://doodle.com/9up55x5zpra7xvdr">here</a>. All you have to do is stand by the door and hand out Hershey's Kisses and encourage people to sign the door.<br />
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We are so excited for StandOut to begin once again this year. Here is the official list of times and locations of our meetings for this semester.<br />
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Note: All meetings will be held weekly in the Student Services Building (located on Dean Keaton) on Tuesdays from 7-8pm. However, the location unfortunately does vary throughout the year. Be sure to bookmark this page, follow us on twitter, or become a fan of us on facebook to see our meeting locations and recaps of the meetings if you missed it.<br />
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Meetings:<br />
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9/7/10 7-8pm SSB G1.106<br />
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9/14 SSB G1.104<br />
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9/21 SSB 3.406<br />
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9/28 SSB G1.104 (cancelled)<br />
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10/5 SSB 3.406<br />
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10/12 SSB G1.104 (cancelled)<br />
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10/19 SSB 4.212<br />
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10/26 SSB G1.104<br />
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11/2 SSB 3.406<br />
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11/9 SSB G1.104<br />
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11/16 SSB 3.406<br />
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11/23 SSB G1.104<br />
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11/30 SSB G1.106<br />
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12/7 SSB G1.104<br />
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12/14 SSB G1.106<br />
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Remember, all meetings from 7-8 every Tuesday!<br />
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We can't wait to see everyone on September 7! We will also be tabling at the Queer Welcome Carnival on September 4 if you want to meet us or have any questions.<br />
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Love love,<br />
Katie Fife and Ben Kruger-Robbins<br />
Co-Directors of StandOutStandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1786340130983353382.post-85072466089580152092010-05-17T15:42:00.005-05:002011-06-22T09:42:41.075-05:00Welcome to Texas StandOut!This is the official homepage for StandOut, the queer political organization at the University of Texas at Austin. We are working toward university, city, state, and national goals which will benefit the greater LGBT community.<br />
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StandOut will reconvene for the Fall 2010 semester with our introductory meeting which will take place on September 7, 2010.<br />
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Please come back to the site for periodic updates during the summer.<br />
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Looking forward to the Fall!<br />
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Hook 'em,<br />
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Katie Fife and Ben Kruger-Robbins<br />
StandOut Co-directorsStandOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125970480956706909noreply@blogger.com0