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Code of Conduct for Birbhouse Slack

This code pulls greatly from the XOXO Code of Conduct https://2018.xoxofest.com/conduct

COMMUNITY CODE OF CONDUCT

This policy is a "living" document, and subject to refinement and expansion in the future. Last updated May 19th, 2020.

Everyone participating in the Birbhouse community—including, but not limited to the Slack group—is required to agree to the following Code of Conduct. This includes all members, no exceptions.

Birbhouse is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Anyone who violates this Code of Conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from the Birbhouse Slack group at the discretion of the Birbhouse admins.

DEFINITIONS

Harassment includes:

  • Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion
  • Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment
  • Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
  • Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate
  • Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop
  • Threats of violence
  • Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
  • Deliberate intimidation
  • Stalking or following
  • Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
  • Sustained disruption of discussion
  • Unwelcome sexual attention
  • Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
  • Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
  • Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect other Birbhouse community members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
  • Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent by the involved parties

Birbhouse admins prioritize marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. Birbhouse admins reserves the right not to act on complaints regarding:

  • ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
  • Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
  • Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
  • Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

CONSEQUENCES

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, Birbhouse admins may take any action we deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the Birbhouse Slack and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Birbhouse community members or the general public.

REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT

If you are being harassed by a member of the Birbhouse community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a Birbhouse admin immediately.

Slack

Please contact an admin (Brian Michel, Mena Alsrogy, Joe Tutterow) via direct message.

If the person who is harassing you is a member of staff, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident.

All reports will be handled in the strictest confidence. We will respond as promptly as we can.

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