This pre-release version of the Creative Interventions Toolkit is freely distributed at www.creative-interventions.org To support the work of Creative Interventions, please go here to find out what you can do to join the movement, tell your story, or help end violence. Next section: Section 1 Introduction and FAQ.

The co-organizer team and those of us who are active on the Ethics Committee have been thinking about how to make our work more transparent, and how to make space for community members to live into their awesome leadership skills. There are lots of ways to participate in building and sustaining RA, both formally and informally. Here are three formal invitations to the RA community. Invitation #1: Come check out or participate on the Ethics Committee! Participants on the EC are the community members who drafted our Code of Ethics, worked through last year’s extended intervention process, and assisted people with interpersonal conflicts within the community. In an ongoing fashion, the EC will continue to support our accountability in keeping our practices aligned with our principles. In addition, we — meaning whoever feels called to participate on the EC — now get to choose what else the Ethics Committee could contribute to RA. Some of you have expressed interest in aspects of transformative justice, creative intervention, and community accountability. In the upcoming year, we’re looking to tackle: Ethics and accountability for community leaders and educators Clarifying and documenting our process when called to address behavior that transgresses our community ethics Clarifying our expectations when individuals wish to use our communication channels for business marketing The Ethics Committee meets every two weeks on Sunday evenings and meetings are on the RA Calendar. It’s not mandatory to be at every meeting. Come and go as you please. Our next meeting will beRead more

Below is the excerpted article about Seattle kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron, The straight guy who teaches queer folks how to have wild sex. The article was published in the June 22 2016 edition of The Stranger, volume 23, number 43. The article is referenced by the Seattle Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee intervention group response email to Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016, posted here. The RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max Cameron summary and timeline is posted here.  Return to the RA Ethics Committee Intervention with Max Cameron Summary and Timeline. Return to the Seattle Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee intervention group response email to Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016. 

Following is the transcribed content of the RA Ethics Committee intervention group response email to kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016. This references the RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max Cameron summarized and outlined here.  Hi Max,  Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand and empathize with how excruciating this process has been for you and for those who are close to you. We don’t believe an email exchange is likely to produce increased understanding between us, so please understand that we may not address each of your concerns here. If you would like to further discuss this in person, we remain open to doing so. We understand you have concerns about meeting with us. While we can’t promise to meet all your needs, we will continue to do our best to create a safe enough space when possible. We do feel a responsibility to address your concern about our disclosure of your name in connection with this process and your request that we not name you in our statement. Marty’s disclosure was made after your April 11 FetLife statement  disclosed your work with us and connected you to allegations of consent violation. The RA discussion events were held April 12 and April 13. At those meetings, Marty shared nothing beyond what was explicitly consented to by the reporting parties or was already explicitly self-published by you. Since then, Suspended Animation has published two open letters  regarding their inquiries, you spoke publicly about the consent violation allegations inRead more

This statement regards the Seattle Relationship Anarchy (RA) Ethics Committee (EC) intervention process with kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron. The RA Ethics Committee initiated this intervention after a community member reported personal experiences with Max that raised concerns regarding the safety and ethicality of Max’s practices. The purpose of this document is to summarize our process, to share our learning with the Relationship Anarchy community, and to invite accountability for our choices. Summary (November 2016) Ethics Committee Intervention Group participants: Drew Burlingame, Valerie Burlingame, Marty Dinn, Modessa Jacobs, Kellie Kawahara-Niimi, Preston Morgan, Sarah Schneider, Amanda Woodard. In early 2016, the Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee (EC) responded to a concern raised by a member of our community regarding Seattle bondage, kink, and BDSM educator Max  Cameron.  Specifically, the reported concerns were: Max picks up partners for private play from the students attending his classes, Max has transgressed the boundaries of some of these play partners, therefore Max’s advertising to the RA community may constitute a danger to RA community members. Our hope was to offer a process of accountability for all of the parties involved assuming that one such process could be consented on. To support privacy for the persons involved, the EC created a closed process container (the intervention group) such that: only the individuals present for the initial report continued to participate in future process regarding this issue. Each individual in the intervention group was responsible for holding a dynamic tension: that we each bring conflicting biases toRead more

This statement regards the Seattle Relationship Anarchy (RA) Ethics Committee (EC) intervention process with kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron. The RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max is summarized and outlined here. Following is the transcribed content of the 04-11-2016 post on FetLife acknowledging reports of consent violation by Max.  Max Cameron  to FetLife 4-11-2016 https://fetlife.com/users/72176/posts/3689611 All relationships, and especially BDSM relationships, are based on mutual trust. It’s a profoundly vulnerable place for both partners. And as most folks in our community know, I’ve spent the past two and a half decades learning and teaching about this trust, how to play safely, and how to negotiate and communicate. In both my professional and personal lives, I believe that consent, trust, and openness are the backbone of not just our ability to connect, but of our entire community and what it stands for. I’ve done scenes with a lot of people over the last 25 years, and I’ve done hundreds of workshop demos. It is my belief that I have acted ethically in all of these interactions. I’ve recently been made aware of allegations that I violated the consent of two or more individuals within the scope of private play. These individuals have shared their stories with three local organizations: Relationship Anarchy Seattle (“RA”), Suspended Animation, and the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. I have told all three organizations that I am willing to work through them, and/or with the parties directly involved, to understand and address their concerns in anRead more

The RA Ethics Committee was formed in the spring of 2015 to create a body of individuals from within our community whose scope of work would support personal and community accountability on all levels. That work began by drafting a document describing the values, principles, and standards that guide the RA community (our Code of Ethics). The work has since focused more on: developing practices that support personal and community accountability on all levels, and addressing instances when community members transgress our shared principles. Much of our personal and community accountability processes align with the ideas described by transformative justice, creative intervention, and restorative justice. A full list of the resources that continue to shape our community accountability practices can be seen here. Our goal is to support accountability and change through compassion and connection. We recognize that no practice is perfect. We work to align our practices with our shared community ethics. We strive to be accountable to our community for our actions and decisions. Point of Contact The current point of contact for the Ethics Committee is Friedel. Ethics Committee interventions When necessary, the Ethics Committee may form an intervention group to address a specific harm, risk, report, or individual. This practice creates a closed process container to better support privacy, safety, and consistency for all individuals involved. It’s then the responsibility of the intervention group to hold and balance the dynamic tension between the need to support reasonable practices of confidentiality and the need to support personal and community accountability by prioritizing transparency. Seattle Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee intervention with Max Cameron: Summary and timeline Intervention group responseRead more

This zine and its three articles by Tod Augusta-Scott is freely distributed by multiple online sources, such as Community Accountability + Transformative Justice Collective.   

This paper is freely distributed by multiple online sources, such as Critical Resistance. Authors and publication date are unknown, but the described project may be connected to SpiritHouse NC, a Durham-based cultural arts and organizing organization, working with low-wealth families and community members to uncover and uproot the systemic barriers to long-term self-sufficiency. 

This zine, developed by Jane Hereth and Chez Rumpf in April 2014, is freely distributed by numerous online sources, such as Critical Resistance.