![]() After their relationship ended, the organization eventually moved to Bloomington, IN into the new house of Joe and his partner at the time. We honor that the zine distro seen today developed as a joint effort of Joe and Alex. ![]() ![]() Microcosm began as a very small, very personal project. The collective believes that ostracizing someone isn’t a healthy, restorative response, and we’ve struggled with accountability being more than a radical judge-and-jury trial. And we’ve struggled with where to go from there. We unequivocally stand for those who have suffered from abuse. We care about abuse and support, and we care for Alex, and for Joe, and for others who have been hurt by this. Staff at Microcosm earnestly care that this emotional abuse was named. This is for us to get off our chests, and to address silence that those involved have waited to see broken. To many, this may come out of left field or seem incidental to one’s relationship with Microcosm. Alex Wrekk (of Brainscan and Stolen Sharpie Revolution) and Cindy Crabb (of Doris zine and distro) have written about this, and other zinesters have requested information. This statement is in response to individuals in the zine community accusing the founder of Microcosm, Joe Biel, for emotional abuse. It is through struggling to address our own problems and striving for healing justice in our own communities that we become not only informed, but transformed. We know this work is hard, but it is also important that the communities doing this work are themselves accountable to their own politics and to communities of survivors. ![]() Philly Stands Up is available as a resource in supporting these and any radical community through the process of supporting survivors, holding people who have caused harm accountable, and helping communities in figuring out how to challenge abuse, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence using restorative and transformative justice. This letter without the context of these posts could be problematic, so here, here, and also here, are good places to get a fuller perspective on things including Alex’s recent response. There are some important posts from Alex about this situation, and we would like to link to them here up top (you can also see Alex’s links in the comments below). It felt important to repost here because of the extent to which it has become a public situation- not so much the abuse, but Microcosm’s process of struggling with accountability work. The following is a letter reposted from Microcosm. accountability action camp Al Franken allied media conference alternative justice AMC AMC Detroit amendment anti-sexual assault application form AQSA zine Audre Lorde Project building trust campus based assault capitalism Capitol Hill Communities United Against Violence confront sexual assault Creative Interventions CUAV detroit Doris Zine Education not incarceration Decarcerate PA emotional abuse group communication group dynamics Halliburton healing hetero-normativity hollywood INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence intensive training internal support intimate partner abuse Lusty Day Microcosm Publishing NASCO nonconsensual sex Oakland Sister Circle open letter oranizing principles perpetrator accountability Philly's Pissed points of unity queer-oriented analysis restorative justice Safe OUTside the System Science Fair Science Fairies Senate seth rogan sexual assault skill building Stolen Sharpie Revolution STOP (Storytelling and Organizing Project story sharing survivor support Sustaining Safer Communities theater of the oppressed Toronto Learning to Action transformative justice Transformative Justice Study Group west philly working on situations Young Women's Empowerment Project zines.
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