So this is something to be excited about! That’s right, an LGBT skate night at the local roller skate rink/gaming establishment, Roll On America. It’s coming up this month, so I’ll be posting pictures! In the meantime, I’ll be encouraging my group to make sweet uniforms. It may not quite be roller derby, but it might just be a springboard. Oh yeah, it’s on.

On a more serious note, OPEN has recently come to realize that Clark University doesn’t account for any sort of gender and/or gender presentation in its nondiscrimination policy. This month we’re having a speaker on Transgender rights and showing the informative documentary Toilet Training, so hopefully we can use that momentum to work with administration and get some serious trans-friendly policies in place.

But what’s a blog without a little complaining? Lately, I feel like all the club work is falling on me and the e-board. Here’s a run-down: OPEN consists of about 30 regular members, and we have a 5 person executive board. The board has an open meeting once a week, and later on is our general meeting where we discuss events, current news, and various LGBT issues. I’ve been hearing complaints from some members about feeling excluded from event planning, but whenever I try to form committees or get planning done in meetings, things fall through. I can’t get members to meet outside of the general meeting and our membership is too large to come to a concise plan or set of ideas. I try to delegate, but oftentimes the tasks fall through. Do other LGBTQA orgs face a similar problem? How do you handle it?