[Imc-makerspace] [OTI] Story of the Noisebridge anti-harassment policy

[Georgia Bullen]

The post is great.

I'm halfway through the comment thread and I don't know if I can read it!

It might be an interesting project to look into what places have harassment
policies and what ones don't... now I'm curious!
On Sep 27, 2013 1:20 PM, "Darby Hickey" <darbyhickey at opentechinstitute.org>
wrote:

> I really enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing and full support! I
> especially like how they tweaked the language that seemed to have been used
> again Violet Blue re: sexual imagery/language -- "Sexual language and
> imagery should be only be used for positive purposes."
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Chris Ritzo <critzo at chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu 26 Sep 2013 07:22:30 PM EDT, Dan Staples wrote:
>> > https://plus.google.com/110222380410616419949/posts/5517czLTefa
>> >
>> > I personally had no idea the degree to which misogyny had gone unchecked
>> > at Noisebridge, I had only heard positive things about the space.
>> > Perhaps that's telling about how uncritical many tech/hacker spaces are
>> > about sexism and harassment, and how male-dominated they are. We should
>> > really show these awesome feminist hackers some support.
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for sharing this Dan. I agree about supporting NB in enacting
>> the policy, no doubt it's needed. One of the things I loved about
>> Makerspace Urbana was that members actively work to make the space a
>> safe, welcoming to everyone with direct outreach to kids, families,
>> communities of color and people of all gender identities. It takes
>> work, struggle, ability to be uncomfortable yourself and engage with
>> people who do crap like this, and address it.
>>
>> Also, I kind of feel like folks who think that consensus spaces don't
>> need a structure to enact individual and group accountability, haven't
>> really had to deal with situations where people disrespected the space,
>> the people in it, or the agreed upon mores of the group. It's a lot
>> harder to be accountable to one another in a collective than to simply
>> issue platitudes and expect that to magically get people to respect one
>> another.
>>
>> -Chris
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