Spread the word

[jenett]

My very dear friend elisem had an experience at Wiscon, and she'd like to tell you about it. (It involves sexual harassment by someone with influence in the genre).

Because she's not up for moderating comments on this (for reasons that should quickly be obvious), she asked several friends to host an essay for talking about her experience of reporting it, and about what other people should know about reporting such things.

Please, read at least one of them. Pass it along. Save it somewhere handy, so that if you, or someone you know needs it, you can find it later.

It is posted at the following blogs:
* Jim C. Hines' blog
* Mary Robinette Kowall's blog
* Seanan McGuire's blog
* Brandon Sanderson's blog
* John Scalzi's blog
* Chuck Wendick's blog

I have an updated list of additional posts, etc. over at http://jenett.dreamwidth.org/1541954.html (please feel free to tell me anything I miss here or over there.)

(I am leaving comments on for the moment, but screening people not on my access list. See the part where Elise is a very dear friend? I am not unbiased in this situation, and I don't pretend to be. Bear that in mind when commenting, please.)

ETA: Elise has asked if I'd collect links for her on this. I have applied my usual librarian foo, but feel free to mention other locations of discussion (either here or in PM or whatever method seems suitable.)

ETA again: I've seen several people worried about someone else naming names. Here's what Elise said is fair game for distribution to anyone who's got concerns: "People have wondered about someone else naming names: Elise supports her naming him, and he made a tactical error picking that person's book release party to do it at."

I'll also add that when you do stuff in public, other people might notice. QED.

Comments

[kakiphony]

I just read this on Scalzi's blog and...erg...I am so angry that this happened, but so happy to see something so clear about the process. I hope the conversation can stay at the same level of thoughtfulness that Elise put in her piece.

[jenett]

She put a great deal of thought into what she wanted to say, and how she wanted to say it, and what the most important pieces were.

(And I'm hoping for the thoughtful conversations, too.)

Two more experiences

[jesse_the_k]

On Stephanie Zvan's blog Almost Diamonds there's her description of a similar incident 11 years ago; one commenter chimes in with her experience in 2005, both with the same actor.

Re: Two more experiences

[jenett]

Thanks - I had those in the link roundup (which is over at http://jenett.dreamwidth.org/1541954.html if anyone missed it), but I appreciate people checking!

Re: Two more experiences

[jesse_the_k]

Oh d'oh!

I was catching up chronologically, so I hadn't reached that post yet. Feel free to delete this thread.
May I suggest adding a "updating list of response links appears in http://jenett.dreamwidth.org/1541954.html" for the chrono-clumsy like myself?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Re: Two more experiences

[jenett]

Done, and thank you for the suggestion!

(about to go do another pass through the search strings)

[morineko]

My only experience with that guy at con involved him being a Condescending A-hole (and I assumed because I was young and female) but I didn't get creeped on or harassed...and now I see it's probably because I wasn't any sort of writer and didn't look sufficiently impressed with him. Definitely a case of someone using power over. Ugh.

[northlighthero.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. Even decades later, in another industry, at a different kind of venue ... it still rankles. And it still affects my behavior in the present day. SO glad to see a 'how to report' piece out there in so many places. SO glad Elise has people to talk to about it.

(sigh)

Thanks for this.