some thoughts on why I don't think I'd visit Readercon, now

[hawkwing_lb]

So I was thinking about maybe going to Readercon next year, if it turned out that the incoming funds gave me enough leeway to fly to Boston. People had told me it was awesome.

After this?

Nope. Definitely not conventioneering. My handful of experiences with Organised Fandom En Masse in the past have proved tremendously alienating. I've no intention of coupling that with a convention whose managing board can't even be arsed to explain why it isn't following its own stated policies on harrassment. (Zero-tolerance policies have their own problems, but a two-year ban isn't even a slap on the wrist. And zero-tolerance is the policy they have. Retroactive rewriting is not good.)

Which is sad, because flights to Boston are cheap, relatively speaking, and so many lovely people who I'd like to see live in the Americas and get together for conventions.

Maybe there should be an alternate party. In protest.

Comments

[anne]

Curiosity leads me to ask: in addition to or instead of 4th St?

[fadeaccompli]

In addition to, I think; it would depend on how close the two events were to each other, and who was going to be at each, and what else was going on during that summer financially and time-wise. But "in addition to" was what I had in mind.

[anne]

That'll make a difference, then. ;-) I wonder how many other not-Readercons there are going to be...