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Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom
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for-the-flail:
From Lori Morimoto on Twitter: Here is a link to an Open Letter to the OTW that you can sign with your wallet name or fannish identity.
We, the undersigned, write to express our deep unhappiness with the OTW’s inaction on combating racism within fandom. We strongly urge the Board to take immediate steps to help make fandom a space where all fans, particularly Black, Indigenous, and ethnically marginalized fans from all over the globe, can thrive.
Read more and sign here with the link at the bottom.
If it can be helpful to get some context for where the letter is coming from, I’ve been putting together link roundups on the discussion about racism in fandom in general and the AO3 in particular:
June 14th - links and resources
June 15th - links and resources
June 16th - the OTW’s response to people contacting the Board re: racism
June 16th - links
June 18th - links
June 19th - links
I also tried to answer the question What’s up with the AO3 and racism? in this Dreamwidth post on June 17th.
I took some time to read up on this and I think others should too, but after reading the links, some of the discussions, and the “What’s up” summary, I’m in agreement with the Open Letter.
As far as I can tell it’s in good faith – my biggest worry is that this was antis misusing #blacklivesmatter to try and assault the site, but that’s very clearly not the case. In what I’ve read and in the Open Letter nobody is advocating for censorship on the site, just for stronger antiracist architecture (for example, making certain issues required major archive warnings) and a stronger immediate statement from AO3 regarding the steps they’re planning to take. I’ve signed it and it’s my recommendation both as a fan and as someone who has defended AO3 as a nonprofit in the past that my readers should too.
And thank you both to the numerous individuals who have been engaging in this conversation for a long time and to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
for_the_flail for the work you put into providing easy to digest context – I know from experience how much effort that is.
copperbadge:
for-the-flail:
From Lori Morimoto on Twitter: Here is a link to an Open Letter to the OTW that you can sign with your wallet name or fannish identity.
We, the undersigned, write to express our deep unhappiness with the OTW’s inaction on combating racism within fandom. We strongly urge the Board to take immediate steps to help make fandom a space where all fans, particularly Black, Indigenous, and ethnically marginalized fans from all over the globe, can thrive.
Read more and sign here with the link at the bottom.
If it can be helpful to get some context for where the letter is coming from, I’ve been putting together link roundups on the discussion about racism in fandom in general and the AO3 in particular:
June 14th - links and resources
June 15th - links and resources
June 16th - the OTW’s response to people contacting the Board re: racism
June 16th - links
June 18th - links
June 19th - links
I also tried to answer the question What’s up with the AO3 and racism? in this Dreamwidth post on June 17th.
I took some time to read up on this and I think others should too, but after reading the links, some of the discussions, and the “What’s up” summary, I’m in agreement with the Open Letter.
As far as I can tell it’s in good faith – my biggest worry is that this was antis misusing #blacklivesmatter to try and assault the site, but that’s very clearly not the case. In what I’ve read and in the Open Letter nobody is advocating for censorship on the site, just for stronger antiracist architecture (for example, making certain issues required major archive warnings) and a stronger immediate statement from AO3 regarding the steps they’re planning to take. I’ve signed it and it’s my recommendation both as a fan and as someone who has defended AO3 as a nonprofit in the past that my readers should too.
And thank you both to the numerous individuals who have been engaging in this conversation for a long time and to
for_the_flail for the work you put into providing easy to digest context – I know from experience how much effort that is.