Achievement unlocked: Archive of Our Own Diversity Statement

[ahorbinski]

As of the last deploy a few days ago, the Archive of Our Own Diversity Statement is now live on the Archive of Our Own.

I drafted the text of the blog post, which puts things much more eloquently than I can at the moment, but here in my own space I can admit to taking a large amount of personal satisfaction in this. I was a founding staffer of the Internationalization & Outreach committee (then International Outreach) when it was created under Julia Beck in 2010, and this was one of our earliest projects. Complications arose, ensued, were overcome, and along the way I became the last of the original I&O staffers on the committee, but we didn't restart work on the getting the Statement live on the Archive until the middle of last year. Now that it is part of Archive policy, I feel like I can retire as Chair with my head held high.

Comments

[christycorr]

*like*!

Don't retiiiire *clings*

[ahorbinski]

I need to not be chair next year. Probably I will also wind up leaving at that point. But I will stay until at least the end of this term. :-)

[copracat]

Congratulations. What a long road.

[ahorbinski]

I wish we'd had this in place during the meta trainwreck last year, but better late than never.

[thistleingrey]

*confettis*

[cesy]

I'm so glad it's finally live.

[ahorbinski]

Oh, me too. Me too.

Andrea Horbinski OTW Board, 2013-15 Mechademia Editorial Assistant