Documenting the Now is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all Documenting the Now spaces, including Medium, Slack, and our meeting spaces, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the RESPONSE TEAM.
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
- Deliberate misgendering or use of dead or rejected names.
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like hug or backrub) without consent or after a request to stop.
- Threats of violence.
- Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
- Deliberate intimidation.
- Stalking or following.
- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
- Sustained disruption of discussion.
- Unwelcome sexual attention.
- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
- Deliberate outing of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
- Publication of non-harassing private communication.
Documenting the Now prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. RESPONSE TEAM will not act on complaints regarding:
- Reverse-isms, including reverse racism, reverse sexism, and cisphobia
- Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone", "go away", or "I'm not discussing this with you."
- Communicating in a tone you don’t find congenial
- Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
If you are being harassed by a member of Documenting the Now, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the RESPONSE TEAM at [email protected]. If the person who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
This code of conduct applies to Documenting the Now spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of Documenting the Now outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Documenting the Now members, especially LEADERSHIP TEAM, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from Documenting the Now based on their past behavior, including behavior outside Documenting the Now spaces and behavior towards people who are not in Documenting the Now.
In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of Documenting the Now members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, RESPONSE TEAM may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Documenting the Now spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Documenting the Now members or the general public.
This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. It is public domain, no credit and no open licencing of your version is required.
If you would like to optionally attribute it, you could use the below text and link to http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment:
This anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Geek Feminism community.
The policy is based on the conference anti-harassment policy, and is the work of Annalee Flower Horne with assistance from Valerie Aurora, Alex Skud Bayley, Tim Chevalier, and Mary Gardiner.