From 70b1d48499035025e0408b76acf515abbb06008e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Zack M. Davis" Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:25:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memoir: cover Ziz's ordeal and memoir in a few paragraphs --- content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md index 940b7ac..a1c984f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md +++ b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md @@ -465,9 +465,11 @@ I said I would bite that bullet: yes! Yes, I was trying to figure out whether I ------- -[TODO: Ziz's protest -https://archive.ph/jChxP -] +On 12 and 13 November 2019, Ziz [published](https://archive.ph/GQOeg) [several](https://archive.ph/6HsvS) [blog](https://archive.ph/jChxP) [posts](https://archive.ph/TPei9) laying out her greviances against MIRI and CfAR. On the fifteenth, Ziz and three collaborators staged a protest at the CfAR reunion being held at a retreat center in the North Bay near Camp Meeker. A call to the police falsely alleged that the protestors had a gun, [resulting in a](http://web.archive.org/web/20230316210946/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/deputies-working-to-identify-suspects-in-camp-meeker-incident/) [dramatic police reaction](http://web.archive.org/web/20201112041007/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/authorities-id-four-arrested-in-westminster-woods-protest/) (SWAT team called, highway closure, children's group a mile away being evacuated—the works). + +I was tempted to email the links to the blog posts to the Santa Rosa _Press-Democrat_ reporter covering the incident (as part of my information-sharing is Good virtue ethics), but decided to refrain because I predicted that Anna would prefer I didn't. + +The main relevance of this incident to my Whole Dumb Story is that Ziz's memoir–manifesto posts included [a 5500 word section about me](https://archive.ph/jChxP#selection-1325.0-1325.4). Ziz portrays me as a slave to social reality, throwing trans women under the bus to appease the forces of cissexism. (I mostly don't think that's what's going on with me, but I can see why the theory was appealing.) I was flattered that someone had so much to say about me, even if I was being portrayed negatively. -------- -- 2.17.1