- There is no way to guarantee confidentiality when online. That being said, we aim for our meetings to be as safe and private of a container as possible. To help ensure safety and privacy, we ask that all attendees refrain from
- Recording meetings, by audio, video, or both;
- Taking screenshots or photos of any part of the meetings;
- Sharing or publishing any part of the text chat or transcription;
- Sharing, or publishing anything that has happened (actions, words, implications) during the meeting;
- Discussing any part of the meeting with anyone who did not attend the meeting.
- Our meeting space is one where marginalized voices are centered. Group administrators may choose to use a tool such as the Progressive Clock to help ensure equitable sharing time.
- To help ensure the meetings remain relevant working in the fields of disability and sexuality, the meeting hosts kindly ask that all attending limit their engagement in “cross talk,” which is a conversation considered off-topic.
- To help ensure the comfort of everyone in the meeting, we ask that attendees refrain from unsolicited flirting.
- Forms of violence will not be tolerated. This is a non-exhaustive list, but includes acts of bias, discrimination, hateful language, oppression, prejudice, and supremacism due to
- Age (ageism, adultism);
- Class and caste (classism);
- Disability (including physical, sensory and intellectual disability, work-related injury, medical conditions, and mental, psychological and learning disabilities) (ableism);
- Employment status and activity (including sex work, under the table work, unemployment, retirement, career changes, and inability to work;
- Family orientation (including carer and parental status, blended homes, and non-nuclear families)
- Family planning (including abortion, birth control, pregnancy, and breastfeeding);
- Immigration status;
- Language, including spelling and grammar (linguicism);
- Marital and relationship status (including monogamy and nonmonogamy, divorce, separation, and cohabitation);
- Physical features (lookism, sizeism);
- Political belief or activity;
- Race (colorism, ethnocentrism, nationalism / nativism, racism, and xenophobia);
- Regionalism;
- Religious belief and activity;
- Sex and gender identity (sexism, misandry, misogyny; transphobia; and including discrimination against intersex and nonbinary folks);
- Sexual or kink activity (consensual, either solo or between individuals 18+ years of age);
- Sexual orientation (biphobia, heterosexism, heteronormativity, homophobia);
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) status;
- or personal association with someone who has, or is assumed to have, one of the above characteristics.
We include COVID-19 denialism and minimization, including anti-masking, as forms of violence that will not be tolerated.
Meeting hosts reserve the right to warn, temporarily remove, or permanently ban anyone engaging in the above conduct.