A deeper breath

'But if I wake up on a bench on Shepursburgh Scree Oh, a candle at my chest, and a hand on his knee I'll roll over and hold him tightly, and scream "If you want him, well you're gonna have to fight me!" '
Laura Marling - Night Terror

Long time. Not enough speak. With Guild elections and a few personal issues I've had less time to blog and I'm sorry.... not that anyone reads this anyway so I apologise to the empty cyberspace. I'm sure you feel the communal pain. There are a lot of things I want to say but I won't kick off with the negatives; congratulations to LGBTQO elect Emma O'Dwyer. Emma has been a bastion of the LGBTQ community at Birmingham for a while and I'm thrilled she'll be carrying on her amazing efforts the latest of which was this little beauty, a new LGBTQ website. Emma and I also spent a day in Leeds at an NUS/Unipol event about bullying in halls. The LGBTQ association has earmarked this as an area of concern and we were set to do campaigining on it in Febuary but with the referendum and elections the plan is to have discussions with the university in the early summer term and roll out a highly visual campaign for Freshers. There's little sense in doing a full on halls campaign when we're moving into exam season but we can do the behind-the-scenes numbers.

Oh, LGBTQ AGM is on Thursday 20th March, 7pm in Guild Council chambers, please come!!!



Peace out.