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squirrel_monkey

That Readercon Thing

Jul 28, 2012 14:09

By now, most of you have heard about what happened: Genevieve Valentine, an excellent and accomplished writer, was stalked and harassed at this year’s Readercon. As soon as she went public with her story, it turned out that the man is a serial harasser/stalker. Readercon has an official zero-tolerance harassment policy; Genevieve notified the con ( Read more... )

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spitphyre July 29 2012, 02:48:09 UTC

You make some really excellent points here that other people have been dancing around or trying to say but you've phrased beautifully.

squirrel_monkey July 29 2012, 04:45:35 UTC

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you found it useful.

tithenai July 29 2012, 11:42:56 UTC

Thank you for this. I've been too many shades of fucked up over this and other things this weekend to do more than send the board an angry letter. It's so crucial to be able to have posts like yours, and Genevieve's, and Veronica's, that articulate so succinctly everything that's fucked up about this situation.

Completely off-topic -- I don't know how to fix this (except to put your blog in my google reader), but your posts don't seem to be turning up in my flist -- figured I should mention it. I did think it had been ages since I'd seen a post from you and now I know why. Grrr, LJ.

lady_tigerfish July 29 2012, 16:57:05 UTC

Gone over and given them an earful. Thanks for alerting me to this. For years, I've been trying to get myself to a Readercon. Now, I doubt I'll ever go.

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