update on the WFC harassment policy

[swan_tower]

Official wording isn’t out yet (they’re still working on it), but this year’s WFC con com has announced that they’ll be expanding their harassment policy, using that of the 2014 World Fantasy as their guide. This is a relief to me, and means I will (barring new disasters) be participating in the program as scheduled.

Even more encouragingly, Ellen Datlow told me via Twitter that the WFC Board — the body which farms out the right to run World Fantasy to individual committees each year — will be meeting next week to discuss implementing a standard policy for the con series as a whole. That chicken has of course not yet hatched, but I find this very reassuring. At present, the Board only “encourages” the cons to have a policy, and lays out no guidelines for what shape that policy should take, if it exists at all. I think it’s become abundantly clear that this approach is insufficient; I’m keeping my fingers crossed that what the Board puts in place will improve the situation going forward.

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Comments here on the update are less than positive. http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5483090.html#comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I hadn't realized the 2014 policy was that poor -- the wording there is almost 100% what we had last year, with the addition of the 2015 con-com being really keen on the whole police thing.