Comment Policy

This is a hard policy to write as I don't have too many hard lines for commenting.

1) I will delete spam (or not depending on how interesting I find the spam.)

2) I will delete and ban trolls (I define trolling.)

3) I will delete post that I feel endanger the safe space of this blog for transpeople, people of color, women, queers, sex workers, poor people, and the intersections within.

4) I like conversation and can be pretty tangential so that is fine in the comments. If you're post seems tangential or completely off topic please indicate this at the top of the comment.

5) It is fine to "curse" and/or use vulgar language in the comments as long as they are relevant. I'm the person who decides what is relevant.

6) I WILL DELETE COMMENTS WITH OR WITHOUT EXPLANATION. If you wonder why your comment is deleted you can ask. If I don't explain it's probably already in this policy.

7) I like EMPHASIS but don't like when entire comments scream at me. I'm not going to delete just because you are addicted to the shift key, but I'm more likely to consider you a possible troll.

8) Backing up arguments with sources is awesome. I have a memory of swiss cheese and will often remember ideas and not who wrote them. STATE THAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHO TO CREDIT. If you find out *please* come back and credit. It's important to me that people get just credit for their ideas. Feel free to challenge sources--but back it up with your own sources. Do you think that Anna Julia Cooper was articulated the idea of intersectionality (if not the term) before black feminist of the 60s or Kimberlee Crenshaw? Say so... (READ: A Voice From the South by Anna Julia Cooper.)

9) I am often called "aggressively" politic and I fully endorse the politics of anger as a motivator towards social change. Having angry responses to people, ideas, institutions is completely acceptable to me. I, for example, HATE LOUIS FARRAKHAN. And will if given an appropriate (or not) space, rant about why that is. I also am not against political violence. So... hyperbolic statements about imagined violence towards common enemies does not upset me. However, I do believe I have a responsibility to respond if a commenter or guest blogger says that a comment makes them feel unsafe.

10) I love comments and would like more of them. :0)

THIS POLICY IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT MY WILL.

If you would like to respond to having a comment deleted please do so in the comments of this post. I'm not guaranteeing I will respond.