[possible trigger warning] Accountability Processes

[buria_q]

Hi,

Does anyone have experience/knowledge around accountability processes in response to perpetrators of sexual violence, particularly ppl who leverage greater social standing and status in queer/activist "communities"? I would appreciate any commiseration/advice from other survivors/survivor allies. Thank you.

I also wanted to post some resources I

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[mimicucumber]

Sorry to say I can't add further resources but thank you for these. It rings true in some of my experiences...

[ebay313]

unfortunately I do not have any resources to add. But thank for those and hopefully some other folks can add more awesome resources to this post.

[mon_deluge]

How about The Revolution Starts at Home? I found it helpful (kinda) in my past. It's a nice collection

http://www.southendpress.org/2010/items/87941
http://www.amazon.com/The-Revolution-Starts-Home-Confronting/dp/0896087948

PDF:
http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/0985_revolution-starts-at-home.pdf

[buria_q]

thanks. i read the zine, but hadn't gotten to the book. i hope there are critiques of how delusional and manipulator-enabling "transformative justice" can be. i went to the book launch where ppl who knew the perpetraror/contributed to the book ignored me.

[mon_deluge]

Ugh, I am sorry that you dealt with that. That is really shitty that they may buy into the same behaviors the book is supposed to avoid. I was going to go to the launch, but I feel like most of my experience has been with people outside the social justice circle. I hope it serves to be helpful in some way.

also, the organization Support New York has resources they could guide you to. They have emailed me some docs and such. http://supportny.org

[buria_q]

heh, i contacted them too, they were low capacity (could only give reading resources and train others to conduct the process). the one guy they sent was too mild-mannered to counter the folks who were coddling the perpetrator and disrespecting me. thanks though!