Name a GSA!

[veerserif]

I'm trying to revitalise my school's group-what-discusses-LGBT+-issues. And, because of the IB, I want to put this down as a 'personal project' - but that means I have to start a new group. Long story short, I need a new name for it!

The group used to be called Spectrum, and I am terrible with names, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[sciatrix]

Hmmmm. The one at my school is called the Lambda Alliance? Er... I also suck at names, trying to think of other things.

I actually like Spectrum, but if it's got to be changed, what about something else that emphasizes diversity? Or an allusion to alphabets for the number of letters that tend to go into the (very unwieldy) acronyms? Or you could even use QUILTBAG, which is a new acronym I hear people trying to promote in place of LGBT?

[veerserif]

Yeah, it's a pity about the name. I'm very tempted to "accidentally" rename it Spectrum, which by complete coincidence will be what it was before!

>_< I don't even know. Otherwise I'll have to stick with the incredibly bland XXXX School GSA.

[nami_roland]

I also suck at names, unfortunately, so mostly I'm just dropping in to go, "oooh, you're in IB too? What year are you? Do you like it? Can I nerd at you for a while about it?" (I may possibly miss IB more than is reasonable...)

Also, good luck with the group! Hopefully people who are good at names will have some suggestions.

[veerserif]

Haha! Wait, you miss the IB? O_o

I'm in my second year of the Diploma. I take Maths Standard, English Lit A1 Standard and Chinese B Standard. I take Higher Biology, Higher Chemistry and Higher History!

For English, I'm starting to prepare for my IOCs and I'm finishing off my World Lit (I did the WL on The Outsider/The Stranger and Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and our IOC stuff are Seamus Heaney's poetry and Macbeth. So yaaaay! History, I'm doing the Cold War, Japan, China and Decolonization in Africa and Asia. Oh, and I just did my first draft for my EE (Exploration of fantasy archetypes in Discworld i.e. tropes in Discworld)

It's kind of torturous in a rigourous, clockwork way that only the Swiss could conjure up. I know that I'm meant to be working at home but I just do *not* want to work when I'm free, which is a problem. But I really do like the stuff we're covering, so that helps a lot.

[nami_roland]

Hehe, I do. Granted I'm over a year out of it at this point, so I have nostalgia-tinted glasses, but still.

I took math, psychology, and chemistry standard, and English A1, French B, and History higher. Congrats on taking chem higher level -- I barely got through it at standard (not that I had a choice; my school didn't offer it higher, though everyone else in my graduating class took HL bio.)

I did my IOC on the Awakening, and it was decent, for all that it was mostly BS. Which, you know, most literary commentary is BS when you get down to it, so. I did my World Lit 1 on the use of love interests to characterize the primary characters in Perfume and Pedro Paramo. Glad you like the IOC choices! I think I could also have gotten a Frost poem, a Hughes poem, or possibly something from Othello. I don't remember the exact history subjects, but I know we did single party states, the Cold War, as well as one other that I can't immediately bring to mind.

That sounds like a brilliant EE. Mine was on the headscarf law in France and how that affected Muslim women and girls.

Hehe, yeah, I'm no good at working from home either, which made stuff like CAS something of a struggle. But as a whole the program's good at making you study interesting stuff from a variety of perspectives, which makes up for a lot.

[veerserif]

Luckily enough I think I'm one of the few in my year who actually enjoys ToK. I did my world lit on the role of societal expectation in causing the deaths of the protagonists.

Our teachers are pretty good, luckily, and our school's predicted grades have got way more accurate. CAS, we don't do hours, so I've basically finished it already. Still have that personal project to do, though. I totally agree with the perspectives bit, especially how it emphasizes seeing things from as many angles as possible before drawing conclusions.

IAs are still a pain, though.

[bewareofitalics]

I once considered a username based on the rainbow bridge incident that almost made it into The Wizard of Oz. I ended up rejecting it because "Rainbow Bridge" sounded like a cheesy name for a GSA. So if you're not opposed to cheesy, I guess it could work?

[veerserif]

That doesn't sound too bad. My fear is actually more making it sound super-serious, because that might discourage people from showing up at all.

[teafeather]

Rainbow Bridge has unfortunate connotations. It's a fairly common euphemism (at least in the past 15 years or so) for "heaven for pets."

Example: http://www.petloss.com/rainbowbridge.htm

[veerserif]

Is it bad that I laughed?

[bewareofitalics]

...drat, forgot about that. Come talk about LGBT+ issues and meet your dead pets!

[samphire]

The only thing with Spectrum is that it's frequently used to refer to the autism spectrum, in autistic communities. I wonder if you could make it more specific - if there is some way to make it clear that it's a gender and sexuality spectrum.

[veerserif]

Good point. The other problem is, if we go for a rainbow-ey theme, there's already a charity the school regularly supports called the Rainbow Project which works with people on the autistic spectrum.

[bewareofitalics]

How about something with prisms? Same general idea, different word.