My Convention Harassment Policy Co-Sign Thread
Posted on July 3, 2013 Posted by John Scalzi 1,161 Comments
I’ve been asked if I would add a thread for writers/editors/artists/fans/human beings to co-sign my recently-announced convention harassment policy. Well, sure. Here it is. If you’re a writer/editor/artist/fan/human being who wants to adopt my convention harassment policy for your own, put a comment in the thread here. Just a simple “co-sign” will suffice, if that’s all you want to say.
Note: This comment thread is for co-signs only. Please don’t comment otherwise here. If you want to comment otherwise, please use this thread. I’ll be stripping out any extraneous comments.
co-signed.
Co-sign.
Co-signed
Vigourously co-signed (you should see me vigourously signing something, it’s a fun process, with minimal blood and slight risk of injury to onlookers).
I, Drew Nicholson, co-sign this policy and will seek to enforce it, well, everywhere.
Co-sign.
Co-Sign
I, Dave Hogg, co-sign this policy and further pledge to work to get sufficient policies adopted by any conventions that I can influence.
Co-signed (as a potential attendee).
Co-signed.
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hell yes
Co-signed.
co-signed with thanks
co-signed. Gladly. Thanks for this, John.
co-signed
Co-signed.
And, co-co-signed just to be on the safe side.
I concur.
Co-signed.
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I’m in.
Co-signed. Oh hells yes.
It’s time for us, the people who create and inhabit other worlds, to treat the people who share this one a hell of a lot better.
Co-sign
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Co-signed. This is important to me personally for all fans, but especially my three year-old future fan at home.
Co-signed. Emphatically.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-sign!
Co-signed
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Co-signed, very.
co-signed
co-signed. Thanks.
Co-Signed, emphatically, with an inky flourish.
co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed
/co-sign
Absolutely co-sign!
Co-signed
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Co-sign. As a fan who stopped attending cons mainly due to creepy treatment, I would love for my daughters to have a better experience.
Co-signed
Cosigned
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed. Long overdue.
Cosigned. (If you cosign on an Advanced Reading Copy of one of Scalzi’s books, is that an ARC-cosign?)
Co-signing this for when I become a famous author.
Co-signed,
Terry Karney/pecunium/any number of other AKA.
Tangent! Just kidding, co-sign.
Cosighned
Agreed! This ought to apply not just to fandom Cons, but conferences in general (said as female engineering faculty who thinks that, frankly, some engineering technical conferences could step up and make a statement by having a policy. Sure, in these cases harassment may be rare, but it’s not unknown).
Co-signed in case I ever become well-known.
Co-sign!
Co-signed.
Co-signed times like 10 million
Cosigned! I’ve been lucky at conventions to never be the target of the sort of disturbing harassment some women have but I’ve had to deal with my share of creepy behavior. I need to know the convention has my back if someone ever crosses the line.
Co-signed, and thank you for originating this.
Co-signed.
Co-signed (even though the last Con I went to was Disclave in 1979).
I will never be invited to present at a convention, but a con that doesn’t think harassment is worth addressing is one that won’t get my registration money. Signed gladly.
Absolutely what is needed. Co-signed, with a flourish.
Co-signed
I am proud to sign my name and support this. All fans deserve cons that are safe spaces and we owe it to each other to ensure harassment and assault are treated seriously. There is no pride in being part of a community that supports sexism, victim blaming, and other blatant abuses of privilege and power.
Co-sign
Co-signed.
Co-sign.
co-signed, gladly
Co-sign for great justice.
Co-sign
Cosigned, quite uncreatively.
Cosigned. As a convention organizer and frequent higher-up in security departments, I will work to make all the conventions I participate in implement the conditions of this policy.
Co-signed.
Cosigned.
I write under the names “Sarah Ellis” (erotica) and “Ellid” (blogging). Co-signed for both.
Co-signed. I don’t go to conventions, but I read a lot of SF and I’d like to see things get better for everyone who does!
Co-signed.
co-sign
Co-signed! I’ll also see if I can request this same policy for swing dance events I attend.
Absolutely co-signed.
co-signed.
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This is awesome. Co signed!
Co-sign.
Co-Signed. As a Multi Convention ConCom Member I also pledge to aid my conventions with the writing of said Harassment Policy(s) and the promotion of them for all Con Attendees. @Cylithria
Co-signed. And as my son is a minor I co-sign on his behalf.
Co-sign.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed, with the caveat that it’s a harassment and not just sexual harassment policy which I’d like the con to have. A lot of people in SFF tend to talk as if sexual harassment is the only problem, but people of color don’t like being harassed because they’re brown, either. Body-shaming for whatever reason doesn’t belong at cons. Etc.
I did actually ask this of the Continuum folks before I attended, and I think they have an awesome policy.
My cosign goes to eleven. – Patrick M. Hough
Co-signed *BAM* *seal of approval*
Co-signed!
Co-signed, with the same caveat as Ms. Jemisin.
Cosign, and thank you.
Cosigned as one against all forms of harassment regardless of gender.
Co-sign.
Co to the signed. Because I really do want to start going back to conventions to, you know, GO to them, and not as unpaid bodyguard for other people.
Co-signed wholehearted
Well said, John.
Enthusiastically co-signed!
co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co signed. As Hayden Trenholm and Bundoran Press Publishing House
Co-sign.
Co-signed!
co-sign
Happily co-signed!
adjacent/hypoteneused. With hope that others will follow John’s sensible and decent example.
Co-signed!
So sign we all. SO SIGN WE ALL!
co-sign
Co-signed, for the cons I go to and the cons I run.
Co-signed.
Count me in! I have friends on the con-running side of fandom who have worked long and hard to make sure that their cons are as safe as they possibly can be. I think they need our support.
co-signed.
Absolutely co-signed.
Co-signed.
Cosigned (in the event that I go to a con, anyway).
I think your policy is a humane, sensible step to take to hold conventions accountable. Signed.
Hey, *I’m* a human being! I’ll co-sign this, happily. I mean, I’ve never been a participant at a con (and I’ve certainly never been a GoH), but I am a member of the community, and I want other members of the community to be safe and comfortable within it.
Co-sign
Hereby co-signed by myself.
co-signed. Well said, John.
Co-signing again with my actual name.
co-sign
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co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-sign.
Co-Signed
With emphasis!
co-signed
Co-signed, gladly. Can we double down on this gaming conventions? Still some awfully shameful stuff going on at those.
*for gaming conventions
Co-signed as a human being, a con attendee, a concom volunteer, and as a member of a committee that just presented a recommended anti-harassment policy to our con’s executive team for approval and inclusion in our next con’s material.
Co-sign.
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Co-signed.
Not yet a (successful) author, definitely a fan. Resoundingly co-signed!
Co-sign
(e^x – e^-x) / 2
(hyperbolic cosine, inspired by Xopher.)
Co-signed. Custom blend bullet-proof purple ink with fountain pen.
Co-signed.
Co-sign. Thank you for doing this.
Co-signed. So. Very. Co-signed.
Great idea! Co-signed.
It’s been decades since I’ve been at a con, but it’s not impossible that I may attend again someday. Therefore:
Co-signed.
Subterranean Press will not bring in any guests to, or officially participate in, any convention that does not have an adequate policy in place.
In other words, very much co-signed.
Bill Schafer
Subterranean Press
With thanks to Dave Hogg for the wording, and with the addition of NK Jemisin’s caveat: I, Kirsten M. Berry, co-sign this policy and further pledge to work to get sufficient harassment policies adopted by any conventions that I can influence.
As a Con-goer and fan, absolutely co-signed! I think this is brilliant! Thank you!
Co-signed. No con shall get my money as an attendee nor my sweat as a volunteer unless they have such a policy.
The only ‘con’ I’m involved in is our gaming group’s annual Labor Day marathon, but /co-signed anyway.
Co-signed.
co-sign
Co-signed.
Co-signed, as a fan, mother of fans, and friend of fans.
Co-signed gladly
Co-signed.
Abso-fraggin’-lutely (as attendee and occasional volunteer.) As someone quoted on another thread: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
Co-signed. (I’m also a member of the committee Michael Hanscom mentioned.)
Co-signed, sealed, and delivered.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
co-signed
Co-signed. Damn right.
Co-signed.
Yes
Co-signed
Co signed and appreciated, with a follow up on the previous thread about my commitment as a con runner.
Co-signed! <3
Cosigned.
Co-signed.
I haven’t decided if I want to go to any conventions, but if I do, thanks for the idea to check for this stuff. Something else for folks to consider. If you’re keen to attend a convention that doesn’t have a harassment policy in place, and it’s getting close to the convention date (meaning give them enough time to formulate and announce it), you can take to the interwebs and announce how you really wish that con would establish one so you could go.
Sorry if this is repeating anyone from the previous thread, which I haven’t had the opportunity to read through yet.
Done and done.
Co-signed, with pleasure.
I haven’t been to any convention, but co-signed. :)
gladly co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed especially for my kids who will attend their first convention soon hopefully.
Co-signed with pride, as the father of a teen who has already attended about 80 conventions and will attend another this weekend!
Co-sign.
Co-signed
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Co-signed
Co-signed, con gusto!
Fan; co-signed.
I am down with this plan. Co-signed.
Co-signed. So say we all.
Co-signed as fan and writer.
Preemptively co-signed!
Co-signed.
Cosign.
Co-sign
A friggin men.
Co-signed!
Co-signed
I don’t know if I will ever get to a con again, but co-signed anyway. Everyone should be safe at a con!
Co-signed!
Co-signed, and co-signing N.K. Jemisin’s caveat.
Co-signed, as one-time Con attendee as participant in the past, and hopeful future attendee as writer/guest.
Cosigned
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Co-signed.
Well, dang, I actually don’t really expect to ever go to another convention; I’m so much happier not going. But if I did, I’d co-sign. Aside from matters of principle and all that, I suspect there is an overlap between the people I find it exhausting to be around and the people that other people find it hazardous to be around. (Actually I’m quite sure of that, now that I think about it).
Co-signed with gratitude.
Co-signed!
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Co-signed.
Thanks John and everyone else.
Co-signed!
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CoSigned
Co-signed!
Co-signing as well.
Co-sign.
Co-signed
Co-signed, including the Jemisin Amendment
Co-sign
Co-signed!
Enthusiastically co-signed.
Co-signed, yes, and what Nora said, above.
Co-signed
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Co-signed!
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Co-signed!
cosign (or cosine), your choice
Co-signed.
Adam-Troy Castro: co-signed.
Co-signed.
co-sign
Co sign plus what Nora said.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed for the cons I go to, and the cons I volunteer for -which already have policies, but are working to make them better/ more visible.
Co-signed. Thank you, from someone who’s been harassed at a conference.
Co-sign
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Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed. And I will second Dave Hogg’s remarks and add that I will work to my utmost to get this policy in place at all cons I help organize (Penguicon) or attend.
– John D. Bell
Co-sign!
Vigorously cosigned, with pep, vim and verve. Also, some zing, zip and ginger.
(For you unix geeks, I didn’t actually cosign with vim, because there’s this little typey box thing to do that, and I didn’t want to write a tool just to post this comment from vim. But, you know. Everything else gets done in vim.)
Heartily, happily co-signed. Well-played, Scalzi. Well-played.
Co-signed, with the caveat that I’d already agreed to be a Guest of Honor at a small local convention whose harassment policy I cannot find online. I don’t feel that I can back out at this late date, but I will do what I can to convince them to make and post such a policy.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Reblogged this on The Fog of Ward and commented:
I’ve co-signed, and I’m now passing it along in hopes of boosting the signal. Thanks again to Mr. Scalzi for taking such a principled stand.
Co-signed :)
Co-signed, with the clear understanding that N. K. Jemisin’s caveat (“a harassment and not just sexual harassment policy”) should by nature be implicit, but ideally still be explicit, in any worthwhile policy.
Never been to a convention, but I definitely cosign for the benefit of others.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-sign. Thank you, as someone who is at many librarian and archivist conventions, I plan to do what I can to adopt this policy for those conventions as well.
Co-signed. With thanks for opening this up as you have.
co-signed
Co-signed, with Nora’s caveat added.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed, proudly. I love it when common sense becomes more…common.
Co-signed.
co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed, with thanks for making this issue more visible and one that needs to be addressed.
co-signed. good on you for this. (now get back to writing more books, please :) )
Co-sign
Co-signed!
Co-sign. There is literally no reason *not* to have a clear and comprehensive anti-harrassment policy in place. It’s a matter of safety and ensuring th predators don’t feel they have carte blanche to be predators in a given space.
Co-Sign
Co-signed.
Enthusiastically co-signed.
Vigorously, enthusiastically co-signed. Just as a fan and occasional attendee now. But once I’m published and in SFWA, I pledge to use whatever meager power that gives me to support this policy EVERYWHERE.
Co-signed.
co-signed, with thanks.
Co-Signed – and emailed LonCon3 to encourage next year’s WolrdCon, which I might actually manage to attend, to make a statement about harassment.
Co-signed
Co-signed with N.K. Jemisin’s caveat. All types of harassment should be covered by these policies.
Co-signed
Signed
Co-signed on my way to CONvergence, which has such a policy. Connie says, “Don’t be a creeper.”
Co-signed including what Nora said above.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Absolutely agree and am proud to cosign.
Co-signed!
Co-signed as a female, UKian/British, human, non-attendee of cons who is unlikely to ever be a con guest. (I am having difficulty getting the “Post” button to do anything with my comment.)
Co-signed with Nora’s amendment.
Co-signed.
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Co-Signed.
I do hereby co-sign this agreement.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed
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Co-signed
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Yes, co-sign
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
OK, I got a weird WordPress avatar instead of my name — Co-signed!
Dave Creek
Co-signed as a business owner who presently refuses to vend at or go to cons due to harassment (primarily around disability & accessibility issues) in the past.
Co-signed wholeheartedly.
Co-signed
Co-sign
Co-sign for days.
Cosigned wholeheartedly by the both of us: Alex James & Sean May.
Co-signed.
Co-signed, YES.
Co-signed!
I support your Convention Harassment Policy and hereby co-sign it.
Signed, with love, Terri Jones, con attendee and committee’d and schlepped for over 3 decades. HAPPILY co-signed!
Cosigned, and thank you!
Co-sign
Co-Sign
Consigned with emphasis on the “hell no, I won’t go” if a strong policy isn’t in place.
Co-signed
I concur. Thank you.
Co-signed!
Co-signed!
Vigorously Co-Signed. NZ fandom needs to pay attention to this, since it supports movements that’ve been undertaken over the last few years. However, these initiatives don’t have universal support, and whether they apply will depend on who chairs cons in future, so this is a great way of getting attention.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. I’m not very likely to be invited to be a GoH, although it would be a delightful surprise, but I also am going to be asking about harassment policies before I volunteer to work on any cons, or buy a membership.
Co-sign. I fully support this, and thank you for doing it.
Co-signed.
Co-signed; thank you for using your powers for good, John.
Co-sign.
Co-signed.
At some point I hope to be a famous enough writer to be invited somewhere, but even if it never happens, this is right. Also, my 13 year old daughter may start attending cons next year and I want her to feel safe.
co-signed
co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Dana L. Charbonneau
July 4, 2013
Co-sign! I love what you are doing here!
I, fan and writer, co-sign this reasonable and respectful policy.
-August
Co-sign
Definitely co-signed.
Co-signed to infinity. And have already stepped up as a security volunteer at my next con.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
co-signed
Co-signed.
So co-signed
Co-sign.
Co-signed. I agree that the policies should cover general harassment and not just sexual harassment.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Cosigned
co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Yepperdoodle!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
co-signed.
Co-signed.
CO-SIGN^99999
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. So glad to know people like you and Paul Cornell who don’t just make statements, but make a stand
Co-signed.
Sounds like a great idea! Co-signed …
Heartily co-signed. Thank you for this, John.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed as a past and possible future presenter at cons and as a fan.
co-signed
Cosigned. I shall not attend, nor staff, nor speak at a convention without a strong and visible anti-harassment policy.
Co-signed and thanks for hosting this.
Hell, yes, co-signed.
Enthusiastic co-sign.
Co-signed
Co-signed. I can’t understand why anyone *wouldn’t* want a policy like this in place.
Co-signed.
It’s a little sad that this is a discussion and not simply an agreement. Co-sign.
Co-signed. Might be this could save me some money, but I’d rather it didn’t.
Co-signed.
Steven Gould, President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Co-signed.
I will take some of this action. Co-sign.
Co-signed
Co-signed, with thanks.
I’m not a speaker/organizer, but an attendee who appreciates your concern for all con participants. Co-sign
Co-signed X infinity
Co-signed. And hoping to bring this to media fandom.
co-sign
Enthusiastically co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
co signed
Co-sign.
Oh, yes. Co-signed.
Cosigned with Nora Jemisin’s amendment.
Co-signed
Co-signed and also in full agreement with Nora Jemisin’s amendment.
Consigned as amended
Co-sign
I, Colonel Potter, co-sign this harassment policy, and will court-martial any violators thereof to the extent of my power.
I sign as a co-signer.
Whole-heartedly co-sign. Thanks for doing this.
Co-sign.
Cosign
Co-signed, and what Nora said.
Co-signed, and I will work to ensure this is adopted at the conventions I staff.
Co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed. It’s about time this policy (including Nora’s addendum) was a prerequisite for all conventions.
Absolutely. Co-signed.
(Redacted because htom beat me to it much better than I did it)
I Co-Sign.
Signed
Illegible scrawl.
–
(I saw how my signature from when when I was eighteen to about ten YAG changed:
It stayed the same shape but had fewer and fewer letters in it, and now might contain an ‘S.’).
Co-sign.
Co-signed.
Co
sign.
Co-signed, and thank you.
Cosign
Co-signed. Always felt that way. See y’at SDCC gentlepeople.
Cosigned.
Well done. Good idea, and you have my pleased approval. Not that you’d care all that much about a plebe such as me. Ah well.
Co-sign
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
I, Nathan J. Cormier, field producer fordragontalk radio, co-sign this harassment policy.
Late to the party – only just found this thing – but co-sign, with bells on.
I, Nathan J. Cormier Field Producer The New Dragontalk, co-sign this policy.
Co-sign!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed, as applies to any form of harassment.
Co-signed, any form of harassment.
Co-signed
Co-signed with gratitude.
Co-signed.
Co-Signed
co-signed
Co-signed as a once and future convention chairman.
Co-signed.
yawp.
Co-signed
Late to this, but totally down with it. Co-signed.
Co-signed. Hopefully this encourages conventions to put their harassment policies in user-friendly locations on their websites, rather than buried somewhere at the back of a .pdf or folded into the bottom of a drop-down menu.
Cosigned with a vengeance.
Co-sign. Thanks.
Co-signed, for cons I attend and cons I work on.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed, and I invite any convention organizers who would like to know more about designing and implementing convention safety and anti-harassment policies to email me at rose@readercon.org.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. You’re fuckin’ A right I’m in.
Co to the sign! Do not pass go! Do not collect privilege!
Co-Sgned and brought up with the con I work..
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Severely co-signed.
Happily co-signed. Thank you!
[signature block]
Co-signed.
Co-signed, for the people I care about who attend cons, and deserve a safe and nonthreatening environment.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-Signed
Co-signed
Raised hand. Me, too!
Co-signed with a hearty AMEN!
Cosigned, personally and for Shimmer.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-sign
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
I’m in! (co-signed)
co-signed. I will note that I am a solid middle class CIS white male with a reasonable disposable income. Cons et al would do well to realize that people like me care deeply about this issue even though we’re very very very rarely subject to anything that could be construed as harassment.
Co-signed.
A heartfelt co-sign, along with N.K. Jemisin’s amendment.
Emphatically co-signed.
Co-Signed with a big scrawly flourish!
Signed, Co-signed and Tangented.
Co-Signed
I’m a human being and fan who has never attended a convention and may never attend one. However, I have plenty of friends, associates and others with whom I interact who do attend them—writers, editors, artists, fans, organizers and ordinary human beings. I strongly support policies designed not only to discourage harassment at cons, but to establish clear and well-publicized procedures for reporting any instances of harassment which may occur, along with equally clear and effective procedures for acting on reports received.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-Signed
Yes, of course, co-signed and I plan to press organizes of the smaller cons I attend to sign on also.
Co-signed!
Consigned
Co-signed
Co-signed, happily.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Thanks, John. And I’ve just sent the resources link for setting up a policy to a convention that didn’t have one.
Co-signed. I’d love to see if this community of co-signers (and the community of non-creeps at large) could compile a list of conventions that have good policies and actually enforce them.
I am a fan and lower staff member/volunteer for a few conventions, and I heartily co-sign this!
Co-signed.
Co-signed. In triplicate. With a HELL YES.
Signed sealed and such.
As the Twitter Administrator for GeekGirlCon and the Board President, I co-sign with great flourish.
Co-signed!
Sign, sealed, and delivered.
Signed on.
Co-signed :)
Co-signed!
As a fantasy jewelry artist, I will start applying to conventions as a dealer as early as this fall.
As a 24-year-old woman, I refuse to trap myself behind a table unless the convention can assure me I’ll be reasonably safe there.
Co signed with a quill pen!
Co-signed belatedly but with pleasure.
Proudly co-signed!
Co-scribbled with vehement agreement, and Jemisin’s caveat…
Co-signed. And thank you.
Co-Signed
Cosined, sined, and tangented.
Co-signed, bro-signed and foe-signed.
Co-signing for sure. All against harassment and I’m not gonna support a convention that’s not going to set up guidelines for anti-harassment.
Co-signed.
/s/
Jay Lake
the pedant in me would like to point out that nothing in the original pledge is specific to sexual harassment, so that’s not an amendment, really. But worth underlining
//signed//
Co-signed. (Writer, game creator, editor, fan.)
On the offhand chance that I’m ever published in a way that might possibly get me invited to some sort of event: co-signed.
Co-signed, both as attendee and hopeful future guest of conventions.
co-sign
Co-signed John Hancock-style.
OctopodiCon began with a public harassment policy on our website and printed in our Student Handbook. We have a CLEET certified Safety Officer, and are dedicated to making OctopodiCon a family friendly time.
Co-signed, secanted, incanted, outcanned.
The Old Wolf makes his mark.
Cosigned.
Co-sign
Well, put, co-signed.
Co-sign.
Co-signed, co-sined, co-seeled, co-delivered.
Co-signed!
Co-signed. Thanks.
Co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed for my daughter and I
Cosigned.
Cosigned with Nora Jemisin’s amendment.
Cosigned with the Jemisin amendment.
Cosigned, with N.K. Jemisin’s caveat.
Cosigned
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed, and challenging the those at the convention I’m working next to do the same.
Co-signed
Co-signed. I was groped by a pro writer at my first con and offered drugs in exchange for sex at my third. But I stuck around and am glad to see my adopted family taking these steps toward a safe and happy con for everyone.
This tactic worked well when John and I were guests of honor at Capclave last year, and I am glad to see it generalized. Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed. I am already not at TAM for basically this reason.
Co-signed
Just take all my cosigns already.
Cosigned, for all my various names and identities.
Co-signed with a vengeance. :)
Co-signed, for any and all forms of harassment.
Co-sign.
co-signed
co-signed, with Nora’s caveat
Co-signed!
Co-signed!
Co-signed, as potential convention attendee/volunteer
Co-signed.
*surfaces from SFWA just long enough to say*
Co-sign!
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-sign
Co-sign
Co-Sign
Co-Signed.
–Cat Kimbriel
Co-signed, and thanks.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Thought I did this two days ago!
Co signed
Co-signed.
I, as a congoer/nerd/geek/Gorramn Decent Human Being, do hereby co-sign, advocate, and plan to adhere to this policy hereforward.
co-signed.
– Thomas Gellhaus
co-signed
I endorse it and co-sign
Co-signed. I’ve never attended a con before (despite wanting to) not only because it’s pricey and hard to schedule around, but also because I’ve been wary of going alone as a woman. I shouldn’t feel like I need to dress up in a gender-obscuring costume in order to go to a con without being harassed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. Thank you!
Co-signed!
Co-signed
Co-signed. Thank you.
Co-signed, with N.K. Jemisin’s addition.
co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed so hard.
Co-signed.
cosigned
100% co-signed!
Co-signed
Co-signed.
co-signed
Co-signed
co-signed, with N.K. Jemisin’s addition. Nobody should have to be afraid at cons; they are too fun for that!
Co-signed. I’ve heard plenty of harassment horror stories. Thank you for using your voice to help.
co-signed
Co-signed!
Cosigned enthusiatically.
Co-signed. I’ve already agreed to appear at a convention in October which doesn’t have a harassment policy on their web site, but I just now contacted them with links to your post recommending they fix that oversight.
Here’s hoping this stance does some real good. Thanks, John!
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
co-fucking-signed
So it is written, so I’m cosigned.
Co-signed!
Cosigned.
Co-signed
I haven’t been invited as a guest to any cons – yet – but until then, I enthusiastically co-sign this initiative simply as a fan, attendee, and human being.
Cosigned. I’ll be invited as a con guest eventually.
Co-signed, thank you
Co-signed
co-signed
Co-signed. Brilliant work
Co-Signed
I am but an occasional con-goer, but definitely co-signed.
Cosigned. Thank you John, and all the above signed for taking a stand against something which affects so many people in our community.
co-sign!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-sign.
I’m in; please consider me co-signed. May I reprint your policy for people?
-jeff berry / chirine ba kal
( a very old F / SF fan and gamer)
Co-signed, with Ms. Jemisin’s caveat.
Cosigned, as a convention runner. I will enforce the harassment policy of any convention I work and implement one where none exists.
-Lea Rush
OSFCI Board Member
Orycon 35 Chair
I am glad to support this and I happily co-sign this petition. I have a mother, a sister, nieces, and many other female friends and I hate the thought of them being harassed. Hopefully, this effort on your part will help to stop harassment.
Co-Signed. Even when wearing a Deadpool costume
Coooooo-sign.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. (So say we all.)
I don’t see how someone could not agree to this. Co-signed, emphatically!
Abso-frackin-lutely co-signing.
Co-sign
Co-Signed. After getting over my disgust that all cons don’t already meet this standard.
co-signed
Co-signing enthusiastically!
co-signed.
Co-signed! Gleefully!
Co-signed.
Co-sign and about time that cons start meeting this standard.
hell yes, and thank you for promoting this.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. And thank you.
Definitely co-signed.
Absolutely co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed
Cosigned, and reminded to wear my Backup ribbon at the next con I attend.
Co Signed!
Co-signed, underwritten and fully supported. And I’m just a guy who reads a lot and goes to conventions and ren faires and such.
Co-signed, and yes, this is a great idea.
Co-signed, with the same caveat as N.K. Jemisin.
Co-signed, as a science fiction scholar, the role of women is of keen interest. As a cosplayer, the ability to freely attend, move, and speak at cons shouldn’t be doubted or challenged based on gender or sex. And sadly it is.
Co-signed, with the additional note that I support the “Paul Carr” rule, which states I will not take part in any convention panel that is not at least 50% female in composition.
Ack. And, of course I meant Paul CORNELL, not the tech writer Paul Carr.
Cosigned.
Co-Signed
Co-signing. It makes sense.
Emphatically co-signed.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. Harassment of horrible nature has been going for far too long! Thank you so unbelievably much for beginning this John Scalzi! May the world take notice and follow. :D
Co-signed as a fan. Considering emailing any of my favorite authors/artists not already co-signed to let them know that as a fan and customer I expect them to adopt a similar policy in order to keep my patronage.
Co-signed as a fan of the genres even though I’ve never been to a con and quite possibly never will, I stand by these measures. Great job John!
Co-signed
co-signed
Co-signed!
Co-signed, also supporting N.K. Jemisin’s addition.
Co-signed, whole-heartedly!
Co-signed, and actually, I’m going to include Film Festivals in this, as well.
Sine-d, cosine-d, and tan-ned.
Oh wait…
Also, cosigned.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed, including the Jemisin amendment.
Co-Signed!
Emphatically co-signed, as a con attendee and as a panelist.
Co-sign!
Delurking to co-sign, including the Jemisin amendment. And thank you.
Co-sign, fwiw.
Co-signed for great justice.
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead –
I’m in. Happily.
Co-sign. And THANK YOU.
Enthusiastic cosigner
Co-signed, including Nora’s amendment.
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-Sign
Co-Sign
Co-signed, sir.
Co-Sign
Co-signed. Thank you.
Co-signed with N.K. Jemisin’s caveat.
co-signed…tyvm
Co-signed as someone who has attended cons for over 30 years, and as a mother of a son who now attends cons on his own(who is an awesome writer, who some day maybe invited as a guest to one).
co-signed
Co-signed
Co-signed! I am so Happy that someone is organizing something like this. Cons need to be a place where everyone is safe!
Cosigned.
Co-signed
Cosigned
Co-signed.
Co-signed, I just hope that when (not if) we see cases of anti-harassment policies not being enforced you’ll come down with the heat of a thousand suns upon them, as you said in the other thread.
Co-signed.
Co-sign.
Co-signed!
Co-signed.
co to the sign
co-signed
Co-signed, as fan and would-be writer
More than happy to co-sign.
co-signed!
Absolutely co-signed, as a fan and occasional con volunteer. Also co-signing N.K. Jemison’s excellent addendum.
I can get behind this. Co-signed.
Co-signed, including NKJ’s caveat, as congoer and art show participant.
co-sign, with a resounding hell, yes.
Co-sign, with N. K. Jemisin’s amendment, & thanks to Scalzi & others helping change the world one starfish at a time
Co-signed, and thank you on behalf of myself and my daughter!
Co-signed! SO SAY WE ALL!
Co-signed as a con goer and vendor.
Co-sign.
co-signed
Cosign.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
I’m in.
Co-signed.
Absolutely delighted to co-sign this: for me, for my daughter who is working in the business as well. And, for what it’s worth, as publisher of Mercury Retrograde Press. Let us all go forth and be human to one another!
Co-signed
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Co-Signed
Co-signed with great pleasure.
Co-signed
Not that anyone’s going to ask me, but sign me up! I will also work to ensure that conferences we put on will have clear anti-harassment policies.
Happily co-signed.
Co-signed.
co-signed
This might complicate my promotional efforts, but it’s the right thing to do. Cosigned.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Absolutely co-signed.
Co-signed. Karg yeah!
Co-signed, sealed and delivered like a stake through the heart of misogynists.
Co-sign.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Absolutely co-signed!
Co-sign!
Co-sign
Co-signed. and how.
Co-sign.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
co-sign
Co-sign. Everyone should be treated with respect always
co-signed. Stop being jerkweeds, you jerkweedy people.
Co-signed!
Co-sign.
Co-signed and about time!
Co-signed.
Co-signed
Hells yes cosigned.
Co-sign
Co-signed.
Co-signed. Sad this is necessary but glad it’s being addressed.
Co-signed.
I’m Dino Alexander and I approve this message.
Co sign
Co-signed.
Co-signed to hell and back.
Co-signed. I attend a smattering of sci-fi, fantasy, comic, and anime cons in my region, and I won’t be going to any without a harassment policy.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
As a fellow human, co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
Co-signed, wholeheartedly!
Co-Signed
Co-sign, with a wax seal and ribbons
Co-signed.
Co-signed, with fervor.
Co-signed.
Co-signed.
co-sign
Co-signed
Co-signed.
I’ve been lucky to attend conventions where the staff consider themselves fellow fans, and thus have been quick to act on things like this. But not everyone does. From this rather impressively long list, let’s hope the word gets out to a lot of con committees: a safe convention is a well-attended convention, and that includes supporting a clear anti-harassment policy.
Co-signed.
In the hopes that my 17-yo daughter, who understands that cosplay does not equal consent, will find support at any and every convention she attends.
Co-signed.
Co-Signed. Thank You.
Co-signed.
Co-signed. Because I am TIRED of having to fight to even get a con to have a harassment policy and post it, and all that implies. http://www.geekmelange.com/2013/07/why-im-co-signing-john-scalzis-con-harassment-policy-pledge/
Co-signed. Because no one should have to put up with harrassment, anywhere, ever.
Co-signed, with the same caveat as Ms. Jemisin.
I’m in, co-signed, etc. The last convention I went to had a policy. There is a media con my daughter wants to try next year and I can’t find a policy for them, so that’s a potential problem. But if a con can have a props and weapons policy, it can certainly have a harassment policy.
Concurred.
Also, don’t know if this is helpful or already been put up, but this seems to be an attempt at a database on the subject: http://www.cahp.girl-wonder.org/con-database/
Co-signed.
cosign
Co-signed! I’m in food writing/media, and while most conferences I attend are dominated by women, everyone deserves a safe environment. Period.
Co-signed. Chicago Comic Con, I’m looking at you.
Co-sign, with the NKJ amendment. Couldn’t do it till now as I was at a con wearing a BACKUP ribbon.