The Door Is Open Wide

Ex-Board candidate Emyn wrote an entire post blaming Kutti, a fan of color, for dropping out bc she talked so much about racism but not nicely enough (!!!). He also lies about her actions. Linking to impertinence's great rebuttals: https://stopthatimp.tumblr.com/post/724125416782200832/so-first-of-all-the-very-basic-answer-is-that

Kutti's own post sheds even more light on the racism she and other volunteers face from the OTW. She also points out Emyn has gotten her mixed up with another POC: https://dhobikikutti.dreamwidth.org/135655.html

ETA: Kutti has updated the post with a story from candidate Zixin about a question even OTW realized was over the line and so didn't originally share in the Q&A. Now she's decided to share the question, and her answer, and it's something everyone should read. Even if you think you understand how precarious the Chinese AO3 volunteers' position is, this will really drive that home. And it will show that members of the OTW are willing to weaponize this in a way that is truly horrifying.

Boosting dhobikikutti's post on OTW Board Member Alex Tischer here: https://dhobikikutti.dreamwidth.org/135023.html

There's a comment here with a message to the Development and Membership Committee & OTW Board both: https://dhobikikutti.dreamwidth.org/135023.html?thread=1794159#cmt1794159

I posted slightly edited versions of this through the OTW's contact form here: https://www.transformativeworks.org/contact_us (The URL popped up in my autocomplete, and despite being a frequent Writing The Board person I've never gotten an actual reply. Still! Maybe someone is reading their mail?)

For anyone reading it without context what Alex is quoted as saying might not seem all that bad. So just know that the Board were the ones making decisions that endangered volunteers, and that the "common language" thing was Alex scolding volunteers with Chinese as a first language who struggled with the communications they were receiving as part of their work for AO3. It was so bad the Board apologized for Alex's behavior in the disastrous Board meeting on Discord (July 2nd I think?), and yet here Alex is completely unapologetic and saying they'd make the same remarks again!

ETA: More context can be found in dhobikikutti's post here: https://dhobikikutti.dreamwidth.org/134659.html

CCAP is short for what the OTW calls "Constructive Corrective Action Procedure".

ETA2: More on Alex's behavior here: https://synonymous.dreamwidth.org/8886.html

ETA3: Alex has resigned: https://www.transformativeworks.org/resignation-of-otw-directors/

If you only read one (or one more) thread on what Rahaeli/Denise/synecdochic has said, please make it this thread by thingswithwings. For a version with ALT text I think you can't use the Nitter link, but have to go to the original here.

“Critique is not censorship, though it is often “mistaken” for such when there is motive to ignore the critique.”

But really, you should also read this thread right here.

Back on Dreamwidth, and focusing on an actual institution that needs changing rather than a single person with locked social media:

doctorskuld has done a Preliminary rundown of the candidates for OTW Board 2023

And runpunkrun is doing her usual fabulous job of asking relevant questions of the OTW Board, and they share info about how to do that and more links in #EndOTWRacism turns its attention to the OTW Board of Directors

Turns out I feel quite differently being on a hellsite owned by a cartoon villain fascist and being on a site I thought was a tight-knit fandom community but where the co-founder doesn't show any proof but is repeating lies about a Black person for being vocally antiracist in a way that some people disagree with.

Literally not a shred of proof - as Renay on Twitter said, this is "Lurkers support me in emails" levels of bullshittery.

And I am mad, and sad, and it doesn't feel great at all that someone with that much influence over the platform (and probably admin access to my account!) derails what was a very important conversation about volunteer abuse and racism with "citing Stitch's work undermines (word used on Twitter, not in the linked post) #EndOTWRacism".

REALLY??

From where I am standing, lies are undermining antiracist work in fandom, but okay?? Did you read Stitch's work before deciding it "undermined" the movement? Do you demand that every single cause you believe in is run by (and apparently cites work by) people you yourself find morally pure enough to support?

If so: interesting position coming from the co-founder of the home to Fail Fandom Anon!

But if not: why do you apply this kind of moral purity requirement on an antiracist fandom movement, and not all the anonymous people on FFA you cite as a reliable source in this post?

It's really interesting how white people set extremely high standards for who they will listen to about racism in fandom.



In fact...as far as I know there are only two people who have published reams of work about racism in fandom (lots more have obviously written about it in general), and they've both been the target of ongoing lies and harassment campaigns! So if you want #EndOTWRacism to cite someone else - why don't you find other voices to uplift without attacking someone who has already been through so much? (For those who don't know: someone got so upset about Stitch's writing they decided to try to get them fired from their job at Teen Vogue, and also called the cops on them. This is SWATTING, and it kills people. Especially people of color! Stitch has had to lock down their social media because of sustained harassment campaigns that didn't let up even when they publicly posted about grieving their father's death.)

Anyway. I have followed Stitch for years, and have seen none of this infamous harassment. You'd think if someone was organizing harassment CAMPAIGNS those of us reading their blog, and following their Twitter account(s) would know about it? That someone would have screenshots of this terrible behavior, if it's so prevalent? But no!

Sure, Stitch has expressed some very human frustration and acerbic takes in their own space, but nobody is forced to follow them, or read their blog?

"Oh but they're antiBlack--"

Let me stop you right there.



Here's the Wiktionary definition for anyone who hasn't come across this term before.

( Pick-me )

So yeah, Stitch is not the only writer to use this expression when writing about, essentially what in anti-faminist circles looks like "Well I'm a woman, and I think catcalling is fun!"

Pointing out patterns like this (e.g: some women will shut down other women and support misogynists) is not racist.

And if someone feels like going off on Dr Pande's work - Dr Pande being the other person who writes a lot about fandom and racism, and who I've seen people use as an excuse not to support #EndOTWRacism who cited their work - then please read this Twitter thread or this Tumblr post. Or both! They're a very good example of the kind of lies and harassment that happens every time a fan of color (and yes, Dr Pande is a fan!), speaks up about racism.

Anyway, all of this to say that I thought I felt uncomfortable on Dreamwidth before, but I feel much more uncomfortable now!

At least on Twitter the odds of Elon Musk personally stepping in to attack friends of mine is quite minuscule, and I can still get some use out of his crumbling platform. Here I know there is a good chance that my post will be linked by the anons over on FFA, who can then add some more grudgewank lies about me to the stew, and share the whole thing straight with the person making news posts on Dreamwidth. (Because yes, people are lying about me too, for signal boosting the #EndOTWRacism campaign.)

Not a great feeling!

Not a great feeling at all.

But I'm gonna end on a different note. Here's a thread on ways to support Stitch! If you can, do. They deserve it. ♥

And here's a very handy graphic for my fellow white folks that Amara shared on Twitter, originally from here on Instagram


Image description: a list of statements with arrows that go from one statement to another statement, and then back to the first in a loop. I'll list them as two statements, but please keep in mind that 2 circles back to 1!

Contradictions for white people in racial justice work

• White people are a particular liability in racial justice movements ↴
  • White people have specific and critical roles in racial justice movements ↺
• It can feel humiliating to have not participated meaningfully in racial justice work before now, and suddenly want to join ↴
  • In order to grow stronger and win, the movement requires new people to join ↺
• When you're working on ending an oppression that you benefit from, people will rightly mistrust you and be hard on you ↴
  • When you're working on ending racism, it's good to be nice to yourself and patient with yourself ↺
• White activists need to listen to, defer to, and take leadership from POC ↴
  • Because "POC" is not a monolithic identity that all believes one thing, white activists need to cultivate their own analysis and judgment over time ↺
• One specific role for white people is being tough about holding one another accountable ↴
  • Another key role for white people is extending compassion, care and patience to other white people ↺
• Racial justice work involves white people giving up or giving away their power ↴
  • Another part of Racial justice work is white people strategically using their power rather than hiding it, denying it or pretending it doesn't exist. ↺

Caption by the OP: if you’re leaning too far in one direction, try the other one

ETA: I am screening anonymous comments, and deleted the one that was posted. I'm out here posting my opinons under my handle of 20+ years across every single fandom site/social media I've ever used. If you can't at least put your fandom handle behind your own opinions on my post, you aren't worth my time, and I will not be giving you a platform. (I don't even know that the comment disagreed with me, so this is just a FYI.)

Latest development on the OTW situation: the Board & Legal have both made statements on the CSEM & firing Azarias; synecdochic has shared some advice for volunteers:

At this point, the only recommendation I can make, as a matter of professional ethics and a matter of basic human decency, is that every person volunteering for the OTW should resign their volunteer positions immediately and remove themselves from the organization.

So. Yeah.

Meanwhile: May 31st is the last day of the two-week #EndOTWRacism action, but it's not too late to take part! There's a form here to sign up for future actions.

As a reminder for anyone who wants to get involved: OTW Board elections are coming up August 11-14. Make sure to fork over the $10 membership fee before June 30th if you want to actually vote. You don't afaik need to be a member to submit Q&A questions or participate in candidate chats.

Finally, Stitch wrote a fabulous piece on #EndOTWRacism in Teen Vogue!

I want to quote some bits, because they're so good, but first of all I need to say this:

I am so tired of people lying about Stitch. I first heard about their work in very negative terms, and instead of going "oh I'm sure the internet is telling the truth about this Black nonbinary person" I started following them and reading their work. Which - yeah, it hit a nerve, and it took a while to process.

But guess what? In something like five years I have seen none of the rumored harassment campaigns or "racism" or whatever racist trolls are saying bout them. Literally no receipts on any actual maliciousness or lying. Only a few things taken out of context and then blown up by people so fragile they cannot handle the the fact that, yes, as white people raised in society we are all racist. We need to learn how to not act on that ingrained racism, but it's not like we're immune to it! When Stitch points out patterns in shipping, and in other fandom behaviors, those are patterns that exist, not personal attacks. But that's how people have been taking it, and that's why people have tried to get Stitch fired (!) and fucking called the cops on them. On a Black person in the US! Because some white woman thought Stitch not being nice enough to racists in their writing (that this white woman was not being forced to read, btw) was "harassment".

With that out of the way, on to Stitch's own words:

If you position yourself as opposed to anti-racism in a space or situation, you are racist. If you only support anti-racism measures from people who will talk how you want, say what you want, and hold the hands of racists in fandom like you want… you are a racist. If you're lying about fans of color you don't know and have never spoken to or read in good faith in order to devalue their work or comments on racism in fandom, you are a racist. If you are derailing, dismissing, and undermining anti-racist efforts in fandom because you think fandom will be irreparably damaged and that, somehow, AO3 will collapse under the weight of being judged for a thing that fans of color have been talking about for its entire lifetime… you are racist and so is fandom. To flip the Ibram X. Kendi quote around: the opposite of “anti-racist” is “racist,” and if you refuse to be anti-racist in fandom or anywhere else because you don’t like the tone, methods, or identities of the people of color speaking on something that has actively harmed them? You’re… you've guessed it: a racist.

There is no getting around that and no point in softening my words to be gentle with someone who thinks that anti-racism is directly opposed to the values of queer/feminist “transformative” fandom — and will actively harm and lie about fans of color to make their points. Fandom is racist, has always been racist, and is now getting worse right in front of our salads due to an increasing wave of overt white supremacy masked as anti-censorship and max inclusivity.

[...]

Something like #EndOTWRacism exists alongside the spirit of fandom activism that brought us Fandom Trumps Hate, only this is a small movement asking fans to speak up and say something about how the OTW hasn’t lived up to the promises they made to make the fandom spaces they manage a little safer for fans of color. If we want the wider world to be better, then it’s okay to be an activist in fandom. But the second fans of color want fandom itself to be better, to let us have more equal treatment and fewer double standards, then we’re outsiders, antis, and bullies? Okay. Sure.

It is deeply frustrating and disheartening to watch people tell us that fans of color don’t matter more than racist content and behavior in fandom. Fans of color deserve better, and gently demanding it from a single fandom space that promised to do so but keeps dragging its heels isn’t anti-fandom. It’s our right to speak up and be heard. If you’ve got a problem with that, yes even if you’re a POC too, you just might be racist. Work on that, perhaps, but get out of the way while you do.

And for the record, I agree with every single thing Stitch says here.

Hi. Been gone a while. It's been good for me to take a break from Dreamwidth. However:

I wanted to post something here as soon as I saw EndOTWRacism's Call to Action (now on Dreamwidth!), because it was very much along the lines of the fandom & racism link round-ups I've been doing on and off for the past three years. But - wow. And I do mean this both in the best and worst ways: it's been like drinking from a fire hose.

After watching discussions on ways in which AO3 in particular allows for racist harassment, (and how they should not do that) go around in the same tiny circles on Twitter and DW, it's suddenly exploded over every single social media I am on. (Special shoutout to Mastodon, where Punk has been doing a lot of signal boosting, and satsuma has a been posting daily recs from the End Racism in the OTW collection!) There have been so many threads, post, and excellent discussions that I literally haven't had the time to both keep up and also round them all up to share.

At the same time, the backlash has been equally everywhere, which has been… horrifying. Because okay, at this point I'm just going to say it:

If you are on social media being loudly anti anti-racism, those two "antis" cancel themselves out, and you are now just arguing for racism.

So. Seeing so many people in fandom be racist enough that they choose arguing for racism has been rough! And it's not something that's great fun to share, especially knowing I have white friends who will shrug it off knowing it doesn't affect them, and racialized friends who can't shrug it off. It makes it hard to know if sharing the extremes of racist fandom rants is a net good (because it highlights what's going on and might be eye-opening to some), or a net evil (because it inflicts harm on those already targeted by racists in fandom).

But it's the Glorious 25th of May (a real celebration of Terry Pratchett; a fictional celebration of a People's Revolution), a week into the #EndOTWRacism's proposed action period of May 17-31, and I wanted to share what I've done, and resources for everyone who wants to join in the action.

( Write a letter to the OTW Board )

( Change the title of your works, add them to the collection, make something new, engage with other works! )

( Change your icon/banner )

Resources

• End OTW Racism account on Tumblr | RSS feed (mirror of Tumblr) on Dreamwidth
• endotwracism's account on Dreamwidth
• End OTW Racism account on Twitter
• Great #EndOTWRacism summary and background, posted May 16th by satsuma
• Brilliant, detailed meta on OTW's issues, that also has a very enlightening comment section (CW for mentions of CSAM), posted May 20th by chestnut_pod
• Bullet point summary of what you can do for #EndOTWRacism posted May 24th by runpunkrun (a great read if my wall of text is too overwhelming!).
• Punk also recently posted a guide for attending OTW Board meetings

I also want to highlight some of the official #EndOTWRacism's Tumblr post account that aren't on their Dreamwidth. (ETA: The RSS doesn't show these anymore, so these link to Tumblr.) In my opinion, these add a lot of context, and I feel like anyone engaging in any discussion about the #EndOTWRacism action really ought to have read all of these before trotting out yet another slippery slope strawman or going off on some tired whataboutism.

• To address the claims that moderating “extremely racist” content is a “slippery slope” to Archive-wide censorship
• Will the campaign include advocating for a policy that bars any fanwork based on media that would be?
• On needing a comprehensive harassment policy
• If AO3 made the changes that you are advocating for, how would that affect those fics, for example?
• Timeline of OTW Hiring of a Diversity Consultant
• Hi! While the sentiment behind your blog and call to action is admirable a number of things are waving red flags 
• Hello! I was wondering what the intended effect of re-titling works on Ao3 is?
• We want to make a few things clear
• Thank you for this. We sincerely hope others follow your example. & You're very welcome! 

Finally, some really good Tumblr posts reblogged by the EndOTWRacism account - again linking to the Dreamwidth post:

• pretty-weird-ideas: A solution to the current AO3 Harassment TOS being seen as unfit for certain types of harassment (such as racism) would be to codify the already present TOS.
• indifferentvincent: RE: End OTW Racism Derailment
• beatrice-otter: You’ve probably seen [tumblr.com profile] end-otw-racism in the last few days, trying to get people to support their efforts to get the AO3 to actually DO something about the racism problem that AO3 has admitted that it has.
griseldagimpel: Steps AO3 Can Take to Minimize Racism in the Archive
• elumish:In light of some of the backlash to the End OTW Racism protest, and particularly the concern that an anti-harassment policy would lead to abuse of reporting mechanisms or censorship of unpopular authors/ships, I want to remind everyone...

Hey, remember my summary of how the OTW has failed to take the anti-racist action it promised?

Here's something everyone can actually do about it! runpunkrun has put together a letter-writing campaign - I'll copy their intro here:

It's FEBRUARY and you know what that means! That's right, it's been six months since the OTW published its Vision Statement 2022-2025. During that time there's been little communication of the progress being made on those goals despite one of those goals being increased transparency. Let's hold the OTW to its word.

There's an example of the email Punk wrote (the form only takes 1000 characters), and some more resources here:

Hold the OTW to its word.

I haven't had the time to do this myself yet - far too little sleep and many, many things to do right now, and I want to make sure my letter is as thoughtful as possible. But it's such a quick and easy thing, and it would mean so much to see some kind of acknowledgement from the OTW that their actions on racism matter. So please, especially if you're an ally - if you've ever felt that you wish you could do something to help? This is a thing you can do to help.

Forgot to post this here yesterday. It's been OTW fundraising time, which means that there's been a lot of talk on Twitter about how any criticism at all on AO3 must come from people who want to bring about censorship, purges, and the death of fandom. This of course ignores that anyone complaining about AO3 because of "illegal ships" or whatever can't really do anything except not donate, and that it then equates those kind of arguments with "AO3 hasn't done any robust anti-racist work, and BIPOC are getting harassed and alienated in ways OTW seem very slow to do anything at all about".

Can you imagine how exhausting it is for fans of color to hear, every six months, that actually protecting racism against some imagined censorship is so much more important than making AO3 a more welcoming space for them? I'm seeing the toll it's taking on my friends, and it just sucks. It sucks that a site that has given me so much joy in my fannish life doesn't offer the same experience to everyone.

biheretic pointed out that even Wattpad has Terms of Service that calls out hate groups/extremist speech. AO3's TOS doesn't have anything similar. So that's just, you know. One small thing that the OTW already mentioned in June 2020 as something they could look at updating to help stop racist harassment and. Haven't. (Yes, I am aware these things move slowly, and are hard, and all that. But that doesn't mean I think it's okay to not prioritize working on this - and that should include communicating to the community if changes are underway but taking time.)

Oh, and for anyone wondering what solutions I have since I'm so concerned? I don't. I'm a Swedish academic librarian. I have done zero professional antiracist work in my life. I don't know shit about nonprofits. I don't want to dictate AO3 policy - I just want AO3 to have a policy that values fans of colors over racists. (A "let's be realistic" PS: no matter what happens, I am 100% certain that no fanworks already on AO3 are ever going to get deleted, no matter what policy is implemented. Not even those posted by obvious trolls. It would go against everything AO3 stands for, and there's just no way things would go from any hypothetical improvements to protect vulnerable users to THE PURGE where all noncon fic is next or whatever. And yes, the reason I feel compelled to make this explicit is that I have asked people upset at the idea that AO3 should be antiracist what they fear, and gotten that general scenario as the answer.)

Here's a pretty great thread that sums up where I stand on "so what's your solution", with a bonus bit where a friend who does know something about all this sketched out a suggestion out of nowhere because there are people who do that sort of thing. In contrast, here is a very recent, absolutely brilliant thread with a whole bunch of steps laid out the OTW could start taking today to make things better. Don't miss the QRT'd thread at the start with even more practical suggestions for internal changes!

Anyway, what I posted yesterday on Twitter was a letter I wrote to the OTW board. They have a contact form that only takes 1000 characters, but I'm kind of done trying to prune my opinions to fit that tiny little box, so I sent it in six parts instead of cutting it down.

If you want to send any comments about all this to the OTW Board, you can do so on the contact page here. Given that communications around their commitment to antiracism have been pretty much non-existent, and that other things that weren't even under discussion in June 2020 have seen priority action, reminders that there are those of us who love AO3 and desperately want it to do better would probably be a pretty good use of your time.

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Dear members of the OTW Board,

I'm writing you regarding the actions outlined in and the spirit in which your July 2020 Statement from the OTW Board of Directors, Chairs, & Leads was made.

In the statement, you acknowledge that BIPOC had been hurt by your inaction, and promised to do better.

I am a white European, but since that statement I have seen continual harm to my friends targeted by racist harassers on AO3, and by your - the OTW's - continued silence and inaction.

I understand that as a volunteer run organization, progress can be slow. But since that statement there has been both communication around and action of a problem with malicious use of tags. The new limit is a great idea, and it was good to see it implement. I'm just disheartened that such swift action is possible when it comes to that one thing, but not to, for instance, the hiring of a diversity consultant.

I'm glad that such items are on your agenda. [1/6]

I wish that you would make them a more important part of what you communicate to users. Having a bullet point in each news update dedicated to how the work specifically with implementation/discussion of features discussed in the statement, or sharing a roadmap of where you hope your work on anti-racism will bring AO3, and what the stumbling blocks are would provide invaluable insight into the importance of this work.

In contrast, not mentioning it at all gives a strong impression that racism on AO3 causing harm to vulnerable users isn't something that OTW is very concerned about. I remember when AO3 warnings were first proposed, and how many people were against them. But I also remember that it was more important for the founders to make sure that authors would have an easy way to help sexual assault survivors and others come across topics that would harm them unawares. [2/6]

The fact that it's 2021 and nothing similar to help those who suffer from racism and antiblackness has even been discussed outside of your one statement is heartbreaking to me. If AO3 really is to be an Archive of OUR own, I want that "us" to include the users and creators who are currently deeply alienated by the unchecked racism on the site.

In the Board Meeting Minutes 29 September 2021, there is a question under AOB about pressure from outside groups wanting to implement censorship. This is a very familiar kind of wording to anyone who has ever talked about racism in fandom. It lumps concerns about the harm racism does to BIPOC together with people who think fictional ships can be "illegal". One of these things is a real world problem that fandom sadly cannot escape, but should do better on. The other is entirely made up. Answering the question without giving any though to the possible nuances of it seems unfortunate. [3/6]

It's also deeply troubling to see it phrased as "outside groups" wanting "unfavorable changes for creators". I personally want favorable changes for users and creators who shouldn't need to deal with the kind of racist harassment I've seen permitted under the current TOS. This in turn might be unfavorable to racist creators. (In 2021 surely it's obvious to everyone that with as many users as AO3 has, a subset of those users will be people who are racist?) But I'm not a member of any outside group. I had a Geocities page and a LiveJournal and I'm AO3 user #1417. I've got 182 posted works, from drabbles and longfic to podfic and vids and cover art for other's fanworks. For years my policy was to donate a dollar per work I had up on AO3 every donation drive, so that my contributions could increase as my ability to pay did. I'm part of this community - and so is everyone who wants to see anti-racist action. [4/6]

Again, answering without taking into account that part of the change you yourselves were promising in your 2021 statement sets a kind of precedent where discussions on potential improvements to make AO3 less racist are lumped in with "won't you think of the fictional children" nonsense.

This might seem like an insignificant detail, but by not adding any nuance, it contributes directly to the hostile environment that BIPOC speaking of their experiences in fandom face.

Your communications matter. Your silence matters. [5/6]

The last few times I've submitted questions through this form, silence is the only response I've gotten. I'm not asking you for an answer on any of the things I wanted to share today - though I hope that my email will be read, and if any of the Board would like more details about anything I'm talking about, please feel free to contact me either on this email or on Twitter (unnaye). I'm a white person who has had nothing but positive experiences on AO3, so I'm definitely not the one you owe any kind of communication or explanation. But I am asking for an acknowledgement that my message has been received, so I know whether there is any point in contacting you here at all.

Best wishes,
naye [6/6]

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This isn't a discussion post, but feel free to message me if you want more links/resources.

According to AO3's abuse team's message to Dr Rukmini Pande, "my full name being tagged to extremely disturbing content on their site (in a manner designed to expose me to continued abuse) did not constitute the creation of a hostile atmosphere towards me"

Thread on Twitter, posted September 9th.

Copying my reaction from Twitter

This is absolutely vile. If using someone's full name in a tag in a negative way isn't harassment, what is? Especially if that person's name is also their social media handle. Pointing readers to a target before they've even opened the work is just...fine, actually. Says Abuse.

I can't stop thinking about how this means that if I read a fic with yucky racist shit in it, and go on Twitter to call it a yucky racist fic, the author can then put "naye hates this fic" in their tags. Because either Abuse will allow it, meaning they will always side with the person sending abuse rather than the target of it. Or, they might not allow it then, but *did* allow it when the target was a woman of color who has written critically of their org before. Neither is good.

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Excellent Metafilter thread on The Guardian's censoring of Judith Butler.

Bonus: A MetaTalk thread on just how TERF-y The Guardian is.

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Today was warm - low twenties, but that's warmer than most of August was. So Skuld clocked out early and we had a quick dinner and then went to the lake for a paddle. It was gorgeous.

Video and some photos on Twitter. I'll make a post, too, but not tonight.

Leaving a link to this very important post here so everyone can read it:

Racist Harassment, White Tears, and the Targeting of Critics of Color

And here is the link on Twitter for those who can boost it there.