Beloit College Students For an Inclusive Campus

Meeting On Self-Care and Activism (November 6th, 2017)

ATTENTION:

Two great events happening this Friday, #GetWoke with Dr. Moya Bailey and Voces presents "Bajo La Misma Luna" which has been moved to 8:30 in Wilson to make more space for the panel. Hope to see you there!

SIC will NOT be holding regular meetings until after fall break to support the HWC's Movies for Mental Health on the 2nd and collaborating with the OADI's DACA panel on October 9th. For both events, we will be meeting as a group outside of the respective locations and walking in together!

A final note: SIC will be holding a DACA call-in to representatives Tuesday, Oct 10th 7-11pm in java. More information to come!

Meeting Minutes Under the Cut 

Here are some projects SIC is doing this semester that you can be apart of: 

Blog: Want to share articles or texts that are important to the education of activists? Do you have a piece you want to write and share with other student activists? Have any good memes? It can be anything relating to SIC.

SIC Gallery Show: At the incubator, we will host a #whatareyousicof art show. Only marginalized identities will be able to contribute to the show. We are looking for people to organize and contribute to the show!

Turning the Tables Zine: The Zine that came out last fall and it is a counter news source to the Round Table and it is a zine that focuses on marginalized identities on and off campus.

#WhatareyouSICof: Our media campaign for this semester! Send a photo representing what you are sick of (Beloit, Whiteness, Systematic Racism, the common cold?). We will post it on Facebook or here on Tumblr! 

Meeting Minutes and information under the cut! 

Mission Statement:

We, the members of Students for an Inclusive Campus (SIC), endeavour to create a safe and inclusive environment for marginalized identities. SIC strives to support members on taking action within their communities through organizing through grassroots work including but not limited to being proactive through protesting, education, awareness and self-care. SIC aims to center marginalized identities and deconstruct systems of inequity on campus, and within the Beloit Community. SIC works to bring attention and support to national and international issues regarding human rights.

The History:

After a Hate Crime in the Spring of 2015, the administration was very not very proactive. A group of seniors got together and created SIC and they created demands (some are in the process of being met). There was a silent protest at Academic Senate that brought to attention the issues of racism and exclusion on campus.

SIC died the following semester and was revived in the Spring of 2016 and the following fall we were refounded. It has died and revived and has lasted. It is founded in grassroots organizing and students are involved. We are not an officially recognized organization and are not affiliated with the Beloit Student Congress (BSC). This is not funded by the college and we all work together to keep this organization alive.

#OccupyResLife was in response to an all staff meeting of RAs. RA staff was to make people conscious of identities. People who had positions of power said nothing when racist remarks were made. The following week we were protesting at 7 am. Are the demands met? They are trying to work on that and it did not go well (Dramatic Dialogues).

This Year In SIC!

Gallery Show:

At the incubator, we will host a #whatareyousicof art show. Only marginalized identities will be able to contribute to the show.

We are looking for people to organize and contribute to the show and if you are interested in working on that please talk to exec about that!

Turning the Tables:

The Zine that came out last fall and it is a counter news source to the Round Table and it is a Zine that focuses on marginalized identities on and off campus. Disjointed from Fem. Collective now and the editors will be Gillian McCormick and Desi.

#OccupyResLife Check-In:

We are going to check in on this and we will talk to administration to see how the demands are being met.

#WhatAreYouSICof?:

Our media campaign that we are doing this semester! Talk and highlight issues on/off campus and how you survive those experiences/exist due to those experiences.

Changing the Structure of SIC:

We are trying to make this space more accessible for non-exec members. We will be pushing a horizontal model of leadership and collaboration. We have people lead meetings on topics that are important to us. But we want to see what YOU want from us!

What do you want?

Dealing with the Dramatic Dialogues and actually doing something about that because administration has done nothing about that

Phone banks and calling banks to call senators and representatives for DACA and about what to do and it is very important to call our senators about it

Language and Activist spaces and having a meeting like that again to get us all on the same page?

What it means to be an Ally?

Allyship and how to be a good ally

Health Centre and how to get that place to be a more diverse place. General discussions of de-stigmatization of mental illness.

Talking about tuition increases and how it is making the institution more inaccessible to students.

It has increased so much and the student pay has stayed the same

Talking about how to make spaces more accessible on campus

Workshops open to campus in order to help train people

Teach-ins getting resources out there and the idea of a #syllabus and making it accessible online and people are able to do research and find resources

Divesting from Dianne Hendricks and how we need to think about this and the article in the New York Times about Beloit

How to self-care better and how we can take care of ourselves as activists

Supporting more organizations on campus that are meant to be more inclusive spaces - a two-way street

How to be an ally when you have disability and what you can do to be active and supportive

Different/Alternative forms of activism

Getting all of the faculty safe zone trained

Talking about the international students and how they can contribute to activism