Midge Potts!

Instead of a meeting this week, we'll be going to the CODEPINK event featuring Midge Potts. The presentation will be held tomorrow (Thurs, 10/18) at 7:30pm in Small 109.

Midge Potts (born Mitchell Eugene Potts) is a transgendered peace activist and Navy veteran primarily associated with CODEPINK. Midge ran for U.S. Congress in the 2006 Republican primary before moving to Washington DC in order to represent herself in the nation's capitol.
Now Midge will be speaking to students on college campuses across America sharing stories of her experiences on the campaign trail as well as discussing her unusual style of advocating for her issues in the halls of Congress.

Go to the facebook event page HERE!

RING RING GOES THE TELEPHONE

Mea would like me to pass this on:

Troy Farlow (D) is a candidate running for the house of delegates 
against Brenda Pogge (R) who was an architect of the marriage 
amendment last year. The race is in the Yorktown - James City County 
district, here in the Williamsburg area. The election is on November 
6th. His website: http://www.troyfarlow.com/.

Troy needs students to get involved on campus. We have two phone 
banking dates set: Thursday, October 11th at 5 pm at the Grind and 
Wednesday, October 17th at 8 pm in Jones 302 during the Young 
Democrats meeting. There will be snacks at both.

This is our activism of the season.  An hour of phone banking makes a 
huge difference-- Don't worry if you've never done if before, we'll 
do a training at each event.  Whatever you can do is wonderful.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions: 516 567 
8305.

Thanks friends!
~Mea

Queer-a-licious

Q-U-E-Er-a-l-icious. First class. Keepin' it fly. Drinkin' champaigne, fabulous life...

AIGHT.

It's thursday. Lambda day. (That's right, thursdays will now be officially renamed. okay, okay. so maybe not...)

The meeting is once again in MORTON 38. 7:30. Be there.

We'll be watching a movie. And you'll have two choices.

I'll lay it out for you.

Choice One: But I'm a Cheerleader.
Yahoo says: Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is a high school student who has it all. She's popular, pretty, a model student, dates the captain of the football team and is a cheerleader. But she's also a vegetarian, likes Georgia O'Keefe and hates kissing her boyfriend, leading her horrified parents to conclude that she's... a lesbian! Their solution is to send Megan to True Directions, a "rehabilitation camp" run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. At first, Megan resists "rehabilitation." Then she meets Graham, a sexy tomboy who shows her exactly what her "true direction" is.

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Choice Two: Saving Face

Yahoo Says: For 28-year-old New Yorker Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface--even if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed mother and the world Ma represents. The masquerade is comic even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma's weekly set ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma's mask cracks first. One night, Wil comes home to find Ma on her doorstep--pregnant. Disgraced by the Chinese community, and with no where else to go, Ma moves in with her daughter, making it difficult for Wil to nurture a budding relationship with gorgeous dancer Vivian. As her carefully compartmentalized worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate her girlfriend, and choose between breaking a cycle of keeping up appearances, or risk losing the girl she loves.

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Alright. See you there!

XOXOXOXOXOX
-Roberto