I just wanted to use my blog to add to the visibility around death threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra
I posted this comment on her blog:
“I echo many of the already spoken sentiments, and I completely support whatever choices you need to make for your own health and sanity.
I also want to say, as someone who worked as a paramedic for years, as well as in various activist causes, that one of the things that I’m feeling inspired about this situation is the incredible support, visibility and response.
In the past, without the internet, without an interconnected community of readers that can easily respond, something like this would ordinarily be invisible, and instead it becomes VERY visible- and the trail is readily traced back to folks responsibile, or to folks who know who is responsible.
That is an incredible amount of transparency. I know it may do very little for your own feeling safety and sanity, but I rejoice, thinking of folks I saw who had been assaulted silently, hidden in their rooms, with no one except paramedics and police to see what happened, and no way to get publicity, because what- the newspaper is going to publish it in any way that creates compassion and connection? No, they aren’t.
So, my prayers and thoughts for you and a graceful resolution to this entire situation. And my appreciation for everyone who is helping to make this situation visible. The more visibility, the better.”
I also want to add my prayer that the person or people making death threats to her, that they find their own deeper needs, and get them fulfilled in ways that are healthy to everyone involved.
