Post-cancellation Meeting

Setting roles

• Facilitator

• Note-taker

• Stack-keeper

Re-centering exercise

Re-reading of the chat transcripts

Framing the discussion

• Baseline issue at hand: someone has thrown into question our ability to host events safely in terms of interpersonal issues and consent culture. This is an existential threat to the group.

  • What information do we need in order to make decisions?

  • What do we have to change in order to host events safely?

  • How do we show other people that we did this work?

• This is necessary work! We can’t create freely under the fear abuse or violence, nor fear of cancellation. Trans women are especially vulnerable to both.

• We can’t do this in one meeting, this is the beginning of a process.

Defining the issue

• What does Callie say?

• What does the affected person say?

What actions are we taking?

• Cancelling Yule event? Yes

• Post for cancellation text? Luna will draft

• Draft code of conduct

  • We will be cancelling shows until we finish it

  • We will collaborate online to write something

  • Will be public, invite public feedback

  • Jay will oversee

• Talk to affected people?

  • Maya will reach out because she is impartial

  • Direct experiences only: no word-of-mouth or friends-of-friends considered

  • “We were informed you were directly harmed by Desdemona. Since we host events, how can we make you feel safe going forward?”

    • Affected person will probably volunteer a description of harm done if they are able to, but we can’t demand that from them

• Vetting process? Booking policies going forward?

  • Maybe people should have to help organize an event to perform

  • Deferring this decision until later when we start booking again

• Immediate safety

  • Checking in with each-other at the end of the meeting

Discussion

Proposals

Conclusions

• I promised a code of conduct and a case report