[Blacklabcollective] Next collective member..

[Anju Singh]

I won't be at the next meeting, but this conversation should still happen,
and is probably great to happen without me.

Here are some more thought-out perspectives on this that you can consider
at the meeting, but no problem if you don't use this list of questions:

-Is it necessary to bring in another POC member? ie. By bringing POC people
on, are we just shifting the responsibility of noticing race-related
concerns back onto non-white folks to speak against and raise (kind of how
I feel usually, so ideally, we shouldn't be bringing someone else in to do
this work..)
-Are we listening to non-cis/white/straight folks? If not, can the
collective do things to be better listeners to non-cis/white/straight
folks?
-Are we aware that most of our volunteers/collective/audience are white? If
we are, do we want to diversify? Why/why not? (there is no wrong or right
answer, it may not be possible in vancouver's extended punk scene to
diversify more than we do, or it might be possible).
-How can we encourage diversity without being tokenistic? (ie. not saying
each show requires a poc/trans/queer/woman, which just makes me stomach
turn)
-Related to that question, is it enough to say we want ONE marginalized
person, or should there be a more active effort to encourage even more
diversity on gigs?

I don't believe there are right and wrong answers, but this might help
guide discussion around ultimately, whether we want another collective
member.

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Katayoon is too busy and not a great choice because she is already
> doing red gate and horses, I think it's better to not get someone already
> super committed. I wouldn't recommend asking her.
>
> We also don't have to choose from this list, so we don't have to vote or
> limit it, I was just starting it and am hoping for more ideas as we go.
> There is not a huge rush, but I did want us to start discussing this and
> I'm really happy that everyone is really supportive of having a diverse
> collective :)
>
> Anju
>
>
> On Saturday, November 7, 2015, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Another possible suggestion would be katayoon? I don't know her very well
>> but she throws a lot of cool shows our way and seems pretty solid. If she's
>> not already swamped w rg/horses stuff, that is.
>> I also would be down with Annie, I am open to most of these suggestions,
>> Pedro is the only person I don't know on this list.
>> On Nov 7, 2015 10:57 AM, "Leggo Sirens" <sirensongs604 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I vote for Annie. How many new collective memeber s are we looking to
>>> add?
>>>
>>> On Friday, November 6, 2015, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have some suggestions we can discuss at the meeting, more opinions
>>>> welcome, sadly there aren't many folks to choose from but I tried my best
>>>> to make a list:
>>>>
>>>> -Heather (from Woolworm)
>>>> -Annie (from last kaste)
>>>> -Pedro (from 38 blood alley, young nice guy)
>>>> -Kara (she lived at tenderfoot)
>>>> -Ryan (from summering)
>>>>
>>>> Anju
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, October 26, 2015, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the support everyone! i'm not sure who we would ask, I
>>>>> don't really have anyone in mind in the punk scene that would be a good
>>>>> collective member right now, but i'm open to suggestions! i'm thinking
>>>>> someone who is active with shows or wants to be active with shows... the
>>>>> reason i want to add them is that i am starting to back away from those
>>>>> tasks so it would be nice to have an active person conscious of a lot of
>>>>> that stuff doing more booking type work, basically another raf haha
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Lindsay Kasting <
>>>>> l.kasting86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ditto, full support from here as well. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 26, 2015, at 11:50 AM, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also fully support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Megan Speers <
>>>>>> speers.megan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Full support. Totally reasonable. If you have anyone specific in
>>>>>>> mind I'm all ears, too.
>>>>>>> On Oct 26, 2015 11:19 AM, "Anju Singh" <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> hey everyone, I know we aren't at this step yet, but I wanted to
>>>>>>>> know if we could make it a mandate that the next person we add to the
>>>>>>>> collective be a POC if possible.. It feels like topics around race and
>>>>>>>> racism is getting worse (I've been experiencing more and more), to the
>>>>>>>> point where I'm not super into going to shows right now even... It would be
>>>>>>>> great to have someone else on the collective that could replace the role
>>>>>>>> raf played..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just a request! No problem if people aren't into it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Anju Singh
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>> Anju Singh
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>>>> Anju Singh
>>>>
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> Anju Singh
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