The Readercon Thing

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:30:14 GMT

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:

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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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