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Code of Conduct
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Quick Version
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The hikari community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
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everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
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orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We
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do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
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This code of conduct applies to all hikari sponsored spaces, including our blog,
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mailing lists, and wiki, as well as any other spaces that hikari hosts, both
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online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or
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expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the hikari Anti-Abuse Team.
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Some hikari-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be
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made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing
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and abiding by these rules.
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Definitions
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Harassment includes:
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* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
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orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical
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appearance, body size, race, or religion
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* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices,
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including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
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* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
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* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re
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not appropriate
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* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like
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“*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a request to stop.
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* Threats of violence
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* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person
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to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
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* Deliberate intimidation
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* Stalking or following
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* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for
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harassment purposes
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* Sustained disruption of discussion
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* Unwelcome sexual attention
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* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming
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inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
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* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
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* Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent
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except as necessary to protect other hikari members or other vulnerable people
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from intentional abuse
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* Publication of non-harassing private communication
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The hikari community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over
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privileged people’s comfort. The hikari Anti-Abuse Team will not act on
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complaints regarding:
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* ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
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(because these things don’t exist)
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* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,”
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or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
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* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
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* Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
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* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or
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assumptions
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Reporting
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If you are being harassed by a member of the hikari community, notice that
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someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a
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community moderator and/or administrator. If the person who is harassing you is
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on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will
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respond as promptly as we can.
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This code of conduct applies to hikari sponsored spaces, but if you are being
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harassed by a member of the hikari community outside our spaces, we still want
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to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by hikari
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community members, especially bloggers, seriously. This includes harassment
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outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time.The abuse
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team reserves the right to exclude people from the hikari community based on
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their past behavior, including behavior outside hikari spaces and behavior
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towards people who are not in the hikari community.
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In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to
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reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. The hikari
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Anti-Abuse Team is not here to explain power differentials or other basic social
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justice concepts to you. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be
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deleted without response.
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We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims
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of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve
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received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if
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we believe that doing so will increase the safety of hikari members or the
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general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative
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consent. Consequences
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Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply
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immediately.
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If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the hikari Anti-Abuse Team may
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take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all
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hikari spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other
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hikari members or the general public.
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