Meeting Notes (March 4 2006)

Most importantly, we had a great first meeting - lots of talking and eating and
dog-petting. At the meeting, we talked discussed various names (listed below),
putting together a mission statement (once the blog is up), signed up for
committees, talked about whether or not the mentoring should be department-wide (and if so,how to implement that), and that a form for mentees to fill out would be forthcoming.

Possible names -- we all really liked the idea of the acronyms, but got stuck as to what words we wanted. Jack suggested that it's easiest to pick an acronym and then make up words that fit each letter. Regardless, we decided to stay away from female or women terms altogether, and instead decided that words like gender, feminist, solidarity, literature, and group fit more closely with what we want this group to accomplish.

Here are some of the names:

Feminist solidarity group (FSG)
FIG (I can't remember what the I stood for)
GILD (Gender in Literature Departments)
SAF (I can't remember what these letters stood for either, but I wrote it
down)

Please feel free to jumpstart the side of your brain that thinks of clever acronyms.

Here are the committees people signed up for at the potluck:

**Mentorship committee: Patty, Molly, Jackie, Laura (not sure), Paige,
Jessica,Erin, and Layne -- further plans for this still pending
**Panel organizing: Patty, Erin, Laura, Crystal
**Blog committee: Me, Olga, and Kate -- details below
**Other ideas: In-group partners, sharing information about outside groups,
like the GSC, CMAS, and others - I just didn't write them all down :(.

The blog is off to a great start. The address is feministsolidarityblog.blogspot.com. The name was chosen in the interests of getting things rolling. Since we can change everything but the URL if we need to, this name is not necessarily permanent.

CHECK IT OUT!!