Report from the More Pie Initiative Meeting at APA 2001:

Twenty-seven people attended a meeting of the More Pie Initiative at the APA 2001 annual meeting to discuss coalition building among the Sections for the Advancement of Women (SAW), LGB Awareness (SLGBA), and Ethnic and Racial Diversity (SERD).  A rousing icebreaker inspired people to imagine what kind of pie they might be.  A variety of reasons for attending the meeting were expressed, including the following: to learn from other sections, to integrate interests that don’t fit into neat little boxes, to find a place to do activism, and to advocate for issues that aren’t being addressed by the three sections (e.g., disability issues and economic injustice).  Additionally, several people noted that they belong to multiple sections, but cannot attend all of the sections’ meetings.  Meeting participants decided that there is no need for a separate structural group, rather More Pie can be conceptualized as an initiative within SAW, SERD, and SLGBA to connect with the other sections and with other social justice initiatives within and outside Division 17.  Plans were developed to connect with the social justice group that is considering forming a SIG, facilitate joint memberships among the three sections, generate collaborative programming at APA, conduct consciousness raising within each section about the issues addressed in the other two sections, and even compile a cookbook with pie recipes and stories.  The enthusiasm, innovative ideas, and good humor of the meeting certainly lived up to the organizers’ desire to "put the ‘social’ back into social justice!"