Let me know if you turn anything up! I have been trying my best to catch up on things but I’m sure I’ll miss some bits
As for linking, I’ll admit I struggle to see how one could talk about the controversy in 2020 (which lead to the OTW making promises to improve which it did not fulfill, and therefore must be talked about) without linking to/talking about Stitch—at minimum you need a waybacked version of the Ao3 news post where they cited Stitch to brag about fandom’s antiracist activism, Stitch’s response pointing out the org had never taken any of their advice re:reducing racism on the archive, and the open letter they helped write addressing the OTW which finally pushed them to take action.
Historically, I’ve seen a number of anti-racist organizers accused of harassment &/or racism, to the extent where my first assumption is generally “their real crime was making a white person uncomfortable” whenever I hear about one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the #EndOTWRacism organizers had faced similar unsubstantiated claims—they state in their faq that they are acting anonymously because of the history of harassment towards anti-racist fans which certainly could have included such types of claims. I mention this because Synecdochic’s post contains no concrete evidence, merely reports of private communications, and while I have quite a bit of respect for their opinion, I can easily imagine someone less familiar with them dismissing the whole thing as yet another round of those sorts of unfounded accusations. Even if Stitch does turn out to be the worst sort of person, I’m unsure whether it would be appropriate to blame the campaign merely for linking to them (if I turn up anything in my research I’ll probably resurrect my ancient tumblr to pass along to them though, as I’m sure they’d want to know)
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As for linking, I’ll admit I struggle to see how one could talk about the controversy in 2020 (which lead to the OTW making promises to improve which it did not fulfill, and therefore must be talked about) without linking to/talking about Stitch—at minimum you need a waybacked version of the Ao3 news post where they cited Stitch to brag about fandom’s antiracist activism, Stitch’s response pointing out the org had never taken any of their advice re:reducing racism on the archive, and the open letter they helped write addressing the OTW which finally pushed them to take action.
Historically, I’ve seen a number of anti-racist organizers accused of harassment &/or racism, to the extent where my first assumption is generally “their real crime was making a white person uncomfortable” whenever I hear about one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the #EndOTWRacism organizers had faced similar unsubstantiated claims—they state in their faq that they are acting anonymously because of the history of harassment towards anti-racist fans which certainly could have included such types of claims. I mention this because Synecdochic’s post contains no concrete evidence, merely reports of private communications, and while I have quite a bit of respect for their opinion, I can easily imagine someone less familiar with them dismissing the whole thing as yet another round of those sorts of unfounded accusations. Even if Stitch does turn out to be the worst sort of person, I’m unsure whether it would be appropriate to blame the campaign merely for linking to them (if I turn up anything in my research I’ll probably resurrect my ancient tumblr to pass along to them though, as I’m sure they’d want to know)