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hermit_dragon wrote

Thank you all so much, honestly all that was p scary for a bit and I'm super glad to see things can be sorted out. It's sad some transfem folks feel unsafe here now - I don't want to ignore that that's also an outcome, and one that I hope can be avoided in future.

For me, this has been a good lesson in transparency, accountability, and more. It's really good to see things being worked out in the open and (what I think is?) restorative justice practices going on? That things can get rough and also be okay (for a value of okay).

I've experienced a lot of community schism and in-community abuse and trauma over the last couple decades in queer/left spaces. This place has been modelling how these things don't have to mean everything falls apart forever, so far. It's transformative.

Thinking a lot lately about how things work (and don't) in communities largely made up of people who experience oppression, abuse, and trauma, and how we negotiate trust under those conditions, and work through all this stuff. Sorry for rambling, it's just that this experience in giving me a lot to sit with and be mindful about, and I'm still processing. But my main takeaway is hope.

Thank you admins, and mods, and community <3

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