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As someone who’s helped TNH find the elevators, and get to her panels through crowded corridors, multiple times… I think she’s forgetting that she gets some hefty privileged treatment due to her status as an important editor, that not every person receives.
And that even if she wasn’t blithly demanding credentials from someone who was Worldcon panellist, demanding fandom credentials from someone with accessibility complaints is being an ass.
I can absolutely tell you as a Worldcon Volunteer, and a user of Accessibility services myself, that Worldcon Access provision regularly gets screwed up, and people suffer because of it. And mainly because of people who do have the ‘fandom credentials’ who are in volunteer positions that allow them to screw something up.
I have literally had an ‘Established Worldcon Volunteer’ shout ‘I Am IN CHARGE HERE’ at me when trying to untangle the mess they had made of a line for signatures. (And also after I got the people signing some water-bottles, because he’d not once asked if they needed anything.) I know that ‘the community’ may well be good about Disabled Access, but it only takes a few assholes, or some bad decisions made by people who didn’t think things through, and all the good will is meaningless. Entry cross-posted from Dreamwidth. Post a comment there or here, there are
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And that even if she wasn’t blithly demanding credentials from someone who was Worldcon panellist, demanding fandom credentials from someone with accessibility complaints is being an ass.
I can absolutely tell you as a Worldcon Volunteer, and a user of Accessibility services myself, that Worldcon Access provision regularly gets screwed up, and people suffer because of it. And mainly because of people who do have the ‘fandom credentials’ who are in volunteer positions that allow them to screw something up.
I have literally had an ‘Established Worldcon Volunteer’ shout ‘I Am IN CHARGE HERE’ at me when trying to untangle the mess they had made of a line for signatures. (And also after I got the people signing some water-bottles, because he’d not once asked if they needed anything.) I know that ‘the community’ may well be good about Disabled Access, but it only takes a few assholes, or some bad decisions made by people who didn’t think things through, and all the good will is meaningless. Entry cross-posted from Dreamwidth. Post a comment there or here, there are
currently posted on dreamwidth. (You can login with your LiveJournal OpenID account.)