The Readercon Thing

[bcholmes]

I’m sure that most people on my friends lists are already aware of the sexual harassment incident at Readercon, but here’s my attempt at a link round-up:

The key links:

• July 16th: Genevieve Valentine: “Readercon: The Bad and the Ugly”. This is Valentine’s initial public report of what happened. (also at her official site)
• July 27th: Genevieve Valentine: “Readercon: The Verdict” (also at her official website)
  • includes, in the comment thread, a report from Kate Kligman who also experienced harassment from Walling.
• July 27th: Readercon: “Statement from the Readercon Board of Directors”
• July 28th: Genevieve Valentine: “Updates to the Readercon Response.” (LJ)
• July 29th: Veronica Schanoes: “Letter/petition to the Board of Readercon” (now on page 2).
• Aug 5th: Readercon concom: “Public Statement By the Readercon Convention Committee”
• Aug 5th: Genevieve Valentine: “Readercon: The Outcome”
• Sept 10th: Genevieve Valentine: “Things You Should Know About the Fallout”

Other link collections:

• elf:
  • “Readercon Linkspam”,
  • “And so it linkspams”
  • “Hanging on by a linkspam”
  • “Another day, another linkspam”
  • “Linkspam til the cows come home”
  • “Around goes the Linkspam”

Reactions:

July 17th

• Jim Hines: “Another Con, Another Creep”.
• Tracy Hurley: Google+
• That Word Grrl in the inclusive_geeks LJ community: “Oh that just tears it…”

July 18th

• N.K. Jemisin: “Dear Fandom: Grow the Fuck Up”
• Timmi Duchamp: “Post Readercon”.
• Wis[s]e Words: “Minimise, Doubt, Excuse, Shift Blame”

July 20th

• Veronica Schanoes/We’re living in Gothic times: “Why not come forward?”

July 25th

• Alex Dally MacFarlane/foxfinial: “it’s the house telling you to close your eyes”

July 26th

• Liz Henry: “Readercon creeper”. I think that this post is the first (chronological) post that publicly identifies the person under discussion as René Walling.

July 27th:

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Mirrored from Under the Beret.

Comments

[veejane]

Hmmmm. Very interesting. I haven't gone in a while, mostly because it's impossible to get to without a car, but I'm more than a little surprised about the outcome. As the 2008 incident makes clear, they're one of those cons that has had an explicit harassment policy for years, and I think they usually print it somewhere in the back of the con booklet.

Not being able to follow the policy, not so good.

[bibliofile]

Good collection of links! Thanks.

(Um, did I miss a post where you explained your cross posting from your bcholmes.org site?)