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 is freely distributed by multiple sources online, such as SPROUT DISTRO.

This zine is freely distributed by SPROUT DISTRO. 

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This zine is freely distributed by CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective and attributed to CrimethInc contributor pfm. This zine is also published in its entirety on CrimethInc with  links to citations, groups, books, zines, and other resources. CrimethInc is “… one of many manifestations of the underground network through which we work to realize these daydreams; to take the reins of our lives and make our history rather than using the same energy to insist we are being made by it.”  

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This excerpt from The revolution starts at home was written by a collective of women of color from Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA): Alisa Bierria, Onion Carrillo, Eboni Colbert, Xandra Ibarra, Theryn Kigvamasum’Vashti, and Shale Maulana. It’s unclear whether CARA still exists.  The revolution starts at home is freely distributed by Incite! at incite-national.org Paperback copies of The revolution starts at home … and of Color of violence: the INCITE! anthology are both available now at Amazon.  Please consider supporting the continuing work of INCITE! by making a donation here.