I think there are a lot of people out there who will be willing to tell the Ziz sympathetic side of the story. (I mean, I would if asked, though “X did little wrong” seems pretty insane for most people involved and especially for Ziz). Like, I think there’s a certain sort of left anarchismish person who is just, going to be very inclined to take the broke crazy trans women’s side as much as it’s possible to do so. It doesn’t seem possible or even necessarily desirable to track every person with a take like that… whereas with people very very into Zizianism, it seems like important information.
I think that describes quite a few people in Rationalist Tumblr, and you could find them reblogging the accounts of the mainliner-Zizian conflict by Somni or pseudonymous pro-Zizian accounts like @aflowerbynoothername and @donttrythisathome (which I don’t think have ever been identified, and I suspect based on style those may be maintained by Ziz and Gwen while in hiding)
(There is also a specific blogger I won’t name out of respect (but who anyone in Rationalist Tumblr will be familiar with) that was a friend of many of the Zizians, including Emma and Ophelia, and was/is heavily involved in their legal defense after the violent clash with Curtis Lind.)
I would, however, caution against overcorrecting: some of the more recent Zizian recruits, like Silver and Ivory (formerly a Rationalist Tumblr mainstay) and Ophelia, both ultimately implicated in violence, seem to have started out as telling the Ziz-sympathetic side of the story without initially approving her ideology. So there is still a slippery slope to watch for, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to do it publicly.
It might be useful to have somewhere a chart of legal names and chosen names so that those of us not on rationalist twitter can keep track. Ivory is the Max who has been charged with Mr. Lind’s murder?
I think that describes quite a few people in Rationalist Tumblr, and you could find them reblogging the accounts of the mainliner-Zizian conflict by Somni or pseudonymous pro-Zizian accounts like @aflowerbynoothername and @donttrythisathome (which I don’t think have ever been identified, and I suspect based on style those may be maintained by Ziz and Gwen while in hiding)
(There is also a specific blogger I won’t name out of respect (but who anyone in Rationalist Tumblr will be familiar with) that was a friend of many of the Zizians, including Emma and Ophelia, and was/is heavily involved in their legal defense after the violent clash with Curtis Lind.)
I would, however, caution against overcorrecting: some of the more recent Zizian recruits, like Silver and Ivory (formerly a Rationalist Tumblr mainstay) and Ophelia, both ultimately implicated in violence, seem to have started out as telling the Ziz-sympathetic side of the story without initially approving her ideology. So there is still a slippery slope to watch for, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to do it publicly.
It might be useful to have somewhere a chart of legal names and chosen names so that those of us not on rationalist twitter can keep track. Ivory is the Max who has been charged with Mr. Lind’s murder?
Check the Detailed timeline of events linked in the OP.