On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 6:21:20 PM UTC-4, M. Alan Thomas II wrote:
A very long piece on sexual harassment in the tabletop community has been brought to my attention: http://latining.tumblr.com/post/141567276944/tabletop- Please note that there is an opportunity for direct action in the case of Wyrd; their phone number and online contact form are at the bottom of the post.gaming-has-a-white-male- terrorism-problem CAR-PGa has a longstanding interest in increasing the number of women in gaming and opposing all forms of harassment. Suggestions on new initiatives to combat this problem are welcome.CAR-PGa publishs one of if not the most complete gaming convention schedules, and I'd be really interested in getting some volunteers to find out which meet the Scalzi minimum-acceptable-harassment-policies (http://whatever.scalzi.com/ 2013/07/02/my-new-convention- ). An example of an acceptable harassment policyharassment-policy/
would be, for example, that of the American Library Association's conferences (http://2016.alaannual.org/statement-appropriate-conduct ). Finally, while the subject does not normally come up, allow me to state for the record that neither the Newsletter nor this discussion list will tolerate attempts to harass people via them.—Alan
This may be a good direction for CARP-GA to go.
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