Open Meeting Notes 1/11
Published on January 24, 2023 by Sawyer/Saoirse
Howdy BKTC!
Here are the full meeting notes to our all-ages meeting at Chaos Computer on 1/11! We gathered at 5pm for a hot meal and met from about 5:30 to 7:00, followed by a killer show! More than 60 people came to the meeting, and even more folks rocked out that night!
Here's the notes:
Here are the full meeting notes to our all-ages meeting at Chaos Computer on 1/11! We gathered at 5pm for a hot meal and met from about 5:30 to 7:00, followed by a killer show! More than 60 people came to the meeting, and even more folks rocked out that night!
Here's the notes:
1/11/2023
- Self-defense and wellness trainings
- Focusing on community responses, de-escalation (brought up @ last meeting)
- with Lara Americo (of Tiny Gym) and Secure the Bag
- Is there anyone who is a trained medic?
- Yovi: forming a focused subcommittee on crisis response?
- Ex. What are we responding to as a room?
- Skills like: what to do if police, how to respond to/not participate in a fight, etc.
- Anya has mental health experience, can help in the committee
- Paige: providing clothes for Brooklyn Transcore, using pre-existing org resources to do so free store
- Julieta: solidarity BINGO fundraisers, ex. For Yovi, Plush, etc.
- Makes it easier to contribute what you can and destigmatizes giving small amounts.
- Future events! Ex. Bluestockings Acoustic Showcase on Friday, w/ mutual aid clothing drive
- Show on the 19th! Cool ppl involved (yovi, sandy, sasha, august)
- Mave: show on (?? Get info)
- January 20th Purgatory planning a hardcore show w/ TDA and other cool trans bands
- 19th, Bun Babies playing Battle of the Bands (edit: THEY WON!)
- Trans Voices Cabaret, Green Room, Feb 5, Manhattan
- Tui playing two shows later in the month, 18th and 21st
- Hardly Fits doing a show on Saturday, all-ages in Rockaway
- Saoirse’s birthday show, Project Reach, Feb. 18th
- Ekko Astral, Crush Fund and the Dilators, January 21
- Punk Island/Urbano Street benefit at Purgatory, January 29
- Chaos Computer with Timeless Clock, the Dilators, and Irrevery, January 31
- Fernfest
- Fundraising for Punk Island in the summer
- we need big top tents, backline, sound person, and travel expenses for potential headliners
- Zines/finding trans artists/etc
- Open Collective
- Ash: knows trans woman who does medic training (!), can create grant-writing groupchat
- Lumio forum; can create threads (?), join via invite link
- Sandy: music education initiatives, finding ppl in the scene who should be receiving lessons
- Sliding-scale/free lessons, ppl who have more $$$ can pay
- Are there any other music teachers in BKTC?
- Gab: from Bun Babies, drummer needs a full drumset (how do bands contact other bands who can help?)
- Evelyn: easiest to get guitars rn from BKTC official, this might change eventually
- Long-term: how can ppl put in requests and get them filled?
- Yovi: mutual aid outreach for sex workers; relatedly focusing on community defense for sex workers as a BKTC initiative
- Benefit show for TDOV/TDOR?
- Juno: Creating digital resource to share experiences in diff. venues, nightlife stuff etc possibly in the Lumio forums, ex. Safety of different venues
- Anya: queercore fanzines available to purchase!!!!!! NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
- Merlin: also makes zines!!! Working on physical accessibility in music stuff (probs also a good subcomm to form as BKTC in some form)
- Rox: doing film stuff, including for concert tonight!
- Baltimore zine initiative, DC, ASHEVILLE, NOLA?
- Mia: things happening in the Bay rn, wants info abt bandstuff and related musicstuff
- Eliah: wants to compile all things bktc for archival (how to do so…)
- ???: some sort of compilation, anthology, etc.
- Saoirse: there was an older compilation (?), older zines etc.