[Blacklabcollective] Next collective member..

Mon Nov 9 14:42:54 PST 2015

Okay sounds good Anju, we will bring up these topics at the meeting.
Ultimately, in my opinion, I think we should seek out a new collective
member and that asking Annie or someone else you suggested above is a great
idea. I don't think we need to put any extra responsibility on specific
members, I think we can discuss as a team, but that having a diverse team
to discuss with is a good way to move forward.

As far as I'm aware, and without trying to assume how anyone identifies, I
believe our collective is made up of queer folks and POC to a greater ratio
than cis-white folks at this time. I myself, while definitely white and
recognizing that privilege, also identify as queer.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>> Anju Singh
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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