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I have offers of USD, CAD, and AUD for OTW membership funds. I still have lots more offers than takers on the OTW membership drive post.
Just to reiterate in case someone's missed it:
The Organization for Transformative Works (Archive of Our Own’s parent org) is abusing their volunteers, including the moderation team that has to deal with abuse of the platform like photographic depictions of real children in sexual scenarios. This came to light in the context of an anti-racism protest. The moderators are not equipped to handle the content they’re currently asked to moderate, which is more of a legal problem than “This fanwork is racist,” let alone handle complaints about racist material. They cannot do this vital work without support from the organization. The racism is still a problem, but the framework to deal with it is a long way off because of systemic issues at the OTW. Many more details are available here.
If reading that makes you want to become a voting member before 6/30/23, the deadline for the next board election at the OTW, but you can’t afford 10USD to do it with, and you’re willing to share your PayPal/Venmo/mailing address with someone who can help you out, please leave me a comment on this post, which is coded such that no one will see it but me unless you specifically tell me to unscreen it.
Just to reiterate in case someone's missed it:
The Organization for Transformative Works (Archive of Our Own’s parent org) is abusing their volunteers, including the moderation team that has to deal with abuse of the platform like photographic depictions of real children in sexual scenarios. This came to light in the context of an anti-racism protest. The moderators are not equipped to handle the content they’re currently asked to moderate, which is more of a legal problem than “This fanwork is racist,” let alone handle complaints about racist material. They cannot do this vital work without support from the organization. The racism is still a problem, but the framework to deal with it is a long way off because of systemic issues at the OTW. Many more details are available here.
If reading that makes you want to become a voting member before 6/30/23, the deadline for the next board election at the OTW, but you can’t afford 10USD to do it with, and you’re willing to share your PayPal/Venmo/mailing address with someone who can help you out, please leave me a comment on this post, which is coded such that no one will see it but me unless you specifically tell me to unscreen it.