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THREAD ON ‚SOCIAL MEDIA CALL OUT CULTURE‘, THE HYPOCRISY AND VIOLATIONS TAKING PLACE WITHIN SXPOSITIVE TWITTER 
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1) I don’t think twitter is the right place to have political constructive conversations or provoke real positive change, I’m writing this thread because I’ve been accused of „enforcing rape culture“ through my „social media silence“ and because...
2) after having tried to support a colleague in need for 2 years through mediation, call-ins, creating IRL space for discussion and reparation, I see the „community“ perpetuating harm through its self-proclaimed online social justice warriors and call out fashions.
3) Instead of facilitating dialogue and supporting a colleague, some people on twitter have taken it on themselves to launch a social media crusade against one company, with essentialist rhetoric and reducing people and systems into false binaries of…
4) oppressor/oppressed, survivor/abuser, problematic/pure, retweeting and posting false statements á la „I’ve been told“, playing people against each other and publishing private conversations with the intent of hurting other sxworkers.
5) The latter is a double standard - how can you claim to be fighting for ethics and throw another sw under the bus? It’s a violation of privacy, consent and boundaries, and it’s generating an atmosphere of even greater fear and distrust within the community.
6) When someone needs IRL support, grounding & critical love - to turn to twitter & call out for boycott of an independent production company, not mention the actual alleged perpetrator, do nothing otherwise against violence in the industry & cash from the biggest porn magnate…
7) … is not only hypocritical, it reveals the actual motivation for making these twitter call outs: presenting oneself as Social Justice Warrior, gaining visibility and credibility through fetishizing the pain of others.
8) We all should be held accountable for our productions and actions - and take on the responsibility of holding space and acknowledgement for victims, making reparations, learning from mistakes and creating better structures of dealing with conflict and supporting each other.
9) Cancelling people, spreading lies, blindly liking & retweeting posts that sound righteous is undermining real structures of support & giving space to companies within the industry to keep growing their empires & profiting from basing their bizz models on unethical practices.
10) This is my plea to everyone who believes in ethical integrity, political networks of support, critical thought & sxpositive culture to acknowledge the complexity of the case, to stop spreading conspiracy-like statements that divide all in with/against me, evil/pure patterns.
11) I call on us to educate ourselves about transformative justice, practice to challenge our punishment methods, learn to provide real support. I ask the people posting private conversations (and harming more vulnerable sw& #39;s by doing so) to stop it and delete the past posts.
12) If anyone truly wants to support other performers and improve the industry ethical standards, inform yourself and talk to the people involved, offer constructive and critical IRL support, other than „retweeting“. (Honestly, what is „brave“ in tweeting anything.)
13) Consequently, I will try to refrain from commenting online on this. I will focus my energy on having conversations IRL & working on constructing a better space for dealing with conflict & fighting against rape culture within the whole industry, not just in the indie bubble.
