When Florida can report and arrest trans people for just going to the bathroom, and they can now also forcibly detransition people in prison by refusing their meds and shaving their heads, and the industry is still ✨⭐️conference at Epcot✨⭐️!
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Moving forward, seeing who makes booking conferences in safe spaces and who doesn't will speak volumes about organizations values. There are still many(thankfully) safe places to hold events. Making excuses about such a critical thing as physical safety isn't negotiable.
There is absolutely no reason to schedule or attend any event in states where non-white-straight-cis-male people are unsafe, and that should be made absolutely clear to organizers.
No, it really doesn't. You're missing the entire point of the post. This is explicitly about holding events in states that are actively hostile to the health and safety of women and queer folks. If you're hinging your decision on something else, then this conversation isn't really for you.
I think it's the same crowd that is hostile to anyone but white males. Also, the conversation is for anyone who wants to participate. And actually, it wasn't a conversation, it was a single post I responded to.
Like, we all know people even in cybersecurity are horrible at threat modeling but we are now talking about real, trauma-causing and life impacting threats that are realistic for short term visitors who are LGBT or pregnant. It’s not just a risk locals face. It’s one Karen reporting or one ER visit.
@hacks4pancakes.com I agree with you. However, our word usage is an issue as well. I tune out anyone who starts with “a Karen.” This is derogatory told women. As a female I refuse to use that term! I caught my youngest grandson (9 yrs old) using that. I asked if he knew what it meant?
The people who organize these conferences will also shrug and say "Women just don't want to work in cybersecurity" and "We tried to get a woman on the panel, but the one we asked said she no, what else do you want us to do?"
Conferences are just for a certain type of social people, not everyone fits in to it. I find them full of weird show off social dynamics that I don't understand. I would imagine a lot of women feel similar about them.
Exactly this, I have missed out on career opportunities because I have refused to travel to FL or TX for some time, every single time ppl seem surprised. It is to the point that my fully supportive boss has started responding for me because people don’t listen, I won’t travel where it isn’t safe
Trying to imagine being a few months pregnant and being told I have to go to a conference in a state where they have let women die if they have a complication that may become fatal.
Until it happens to a guy, one who looks "different", it will not be a problem they can see.
Suddenly they will be all up in arms & asking why did no one tell us?!
Women will face palm & scratch the conference.
It's funny because most top conferences tend to be in the global North because *security reasons*, but those situations you're describing seem very very risky to me, and I come from a place of earth with uhh **checks data** ~44 murders/100k habitants, so it's not like I'm very risk adverse.
Like holy shit, in a lot of "third world countries" EVEN THOSE without fully legal abortion this wouldn't be a major concern*, the situation in some US states is insane
*Of course it would, like it's a medical emergency, but care wouldn't be denied
I understand being locked into a multi-year contract with a venue, and that they didn’t have time to adjust the TN location. I’d be curious if the same is true for Dallas.
I’m considering they don’t want to repeat locations, but there’s 3 Gaylord locations that would be safer—MD, CO, CA.
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People can call it virtue signaling, but I’m genuinely concerned about their basic rights, access to healthcare, etc.
Until it happens to a guy, one who looks "different", it will not be a problem they can see.
Suddenly they will be all up in arms & asking why did no one tell us?!
Women will face palm & scratch the conference.
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*Of course it would, like it's a medical emergency, but care wouldn't be denied
I could not agree more with all of this.
Nobody learned from the WiCyS Nashville backlash, so many are continuing to pick these locations without acknowledgement of the risks.
I’m considering they don’t want to repeat locations, but there’s 3 Gaylord locations that would be safer—MD, CO, CA.