Ok. Here begins the discussion. Who its for: - People who speak, read, or perform about LGBTQetc topics at colleges and universities, for corporations, and for profit-making events such as mainstage Pride. - People who decide what to pay the above people. - People who are asked whats your fee? and dont know how to respond. - Anyone who has ever been asked to use their valuable time, experience, and expertise for free at an institution or event that has a budget with more than 5 zeroes. What this is NOT about: - us as individuals - shaming, complaining, making drama - volunteering for causes and communities we believe in who genuinely have no funds and need our support PROPOSED: - To create a minimum honorarium that professional speakers/readers/performers can demand, thereby training institutional workers to create budgets that HONOR the experiences they wish to represent. - To create a fee structure for individual professionals based on their own experience (years, publications, cultural impact), on a sliding scale to match the resources of institutions (community colleges vs major universities, small businesses vs large corporations, community events vs corporate-sponsored events, etc) - To outreach to professionals, convincing everyone who works in a contract capacity for an institution or major event that their work is worth even a minimum honorarium - and more, based on experience. - To spread the word to institutions: Make your budgets accordingly, and thank you for supporting LGBTQ culture in a real way. Thats just what I think is necessary - after 12 years of professional speaking/reading/performing. I dont pretend to have the entire perspective however, these are initial thoughts. Please weigh in on those ideas as they are so that we can refine what we want to do. Then well take the step of finding some answers? Thank you all in advance.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 19:20:56 +0000
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