New book on code of conduct enforcement available now! Contains everything @vaurorapub @me_gardiner and @leeflower learned about enforcing CoCs during the last 7 years frameshiftconsulting.com/2018/12/10/fre…
The CoC enforcement book builds on articles by @FeyNudibranch @hypatiadotca @lizthegrey as well as previous work by @vaurorapub @me_gardiner @leeflower and many others frameshiftconsulting.com/2018/12/10/fre…
1/ A few of the articles we recommend in the CoC enforcement book: "‘Why Didn’t You Report It?’" by @sesmith, on why people often don't report sexual assault meloukhia.net/2010/04/why_di…
2/ "'Why don’t you just hit him?'" by @me_gardiner, on why we shouldn't advise targets of harassment to physically attack their harassers puzzling.org/politics-and-s…
3/ "Alcohol and Inclusivity: Planning Tech Events with Non-Alcoholic Options" by @FeyNudibranch, on how to make alcohol an optional part of events blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/03/30/cro…
4/ "Higher Risk Activities" by @me_gardiner et al., on what kind of event activities are more likely to involve harassment and how to mitigate that geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conferenc…
5/ "Inclusive Offsites" by Sara Smollett et al., on how to design more inclusive team-building and employer-sponsored social events tinyurl.com/inclusive-offs…
6/ "How 'Good Intent' Undermines Diversity and Inclusion" by @leeflower, on how insisting that people in your community/workplace assume good intent is harmful to marginalized people thebias.com/2017/09/26/how…
7/ "The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment" by @hypatiadotca and @vaurorapub, on how people who sexually harass others often commit other crimes blog.valerieaurora.org/2017/07/18/the…
8/ "Take Responsibility For Handling Abuse" by @leeflower, on how community leadership should not make targets responsible for handling abuse thebias.com/2015/08/12/tak…
9/ "What Reporting Sexual Harassment Taught Me" by @siminevazire, also on the problems with making targets responsible for handling abuse slate.com/technology/201…
10/ "Intersectionality", the WP article on the concept named and popularized by legal scholar @sandylocks that people are subject to multiple intersecting and overlapping systems of oppression en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersect…
11/ "No More Rock Stars" by @hypatiadotca, @vaurorapub, and @me_gardiner, about how to prevent and fix community cultures that valorize "rock stars" and create fertile ground for abuse hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/no-…
12/ "How to organize tech workers to change company policy" by @lizthegrey, a video on how to collectively organize as employees of a tech company to change company policies frameshiftconsulting.com/2017/02/04/how…
13/ "What is DARVO?" by @jjforegon, on the common response of abusers to "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender" when called out for abuse dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…
14/ "The Myth of the Male Bumbler" by @Millicentsomer, on otherwise competent adult men claiming to be bumbling fools when confronted about sexually predatory behavior theweek.com/articles/73705…
15/ "Acceptance, Kink Shaming, and Calling Out Bad Behaviour" by @A_Story_of_A, on when someone's "kink" is actually abusive and/or oppressive and should not be tolerated thestoryofa.com/acceptance-kin…
16/ "Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer" by Thomas Macaulay Miller, on research showing predators can understand a "soft no," they just choose not to when it comes to sex yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/myt…
17/ And I always recommend "Women, Race, & Class" by Angela Y. Davis, on the ways gender, race, and class intersect in the U.S. and how racism and classism have hobbled the feminist movement penguinrandomhouse.com/books/37354/wo…
