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      <p>Position Development is dedicated to providing a
harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender
identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical
appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate
        harassment of participants in any form.</p>

      <p>This code of conduct applies to all Position Development
spaces, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct
may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of
that event's CoC response team.<p>

        <p>Some Position Development spaces may have additional rules in place,
which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are
responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.</p>


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      <p>Position Development is dedicated to providing a
      harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate
      harassment of participants in any form.</p>
      <p>This code of conduct applies to all Position Development
spaces, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct
may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of
Position Development.</p>
      <p>Some Position Development spaces may have
additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to
participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by
        these rules.</p>

        <p>Harassment includes:</p>
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<li>Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
<li>Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
<li>Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
<li>Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour  in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
<li>Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a request to stop.
<li>Threats of violence.
<li>Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
<li>Deliberate intimidation.
<li>Stalking or following.
<li>Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
<li>Sustained disruption of discussion.
<li>Unwelcome sexual attention.
<li>Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
<li>Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
<li>Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
<li>Publication of non-harassing private communication.</ul>
<p>Position Development prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The response team will not act on complaints regarding:</p>
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<li>‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
<li>Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
<li>Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
<li>Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions</ul>


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      <p>If you are being harassed by a member or guest of
Position Development, notice that someone else is being harassed, or
have any other concerns, please contact Position at
workers@positiondev.com. If the person who is harassing you is on the
team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will
        respond as promptly as we can.</p>
      <p>This code of conduct applies to
Position Development spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member
or guest of Position Development outside our spaces, we still want to
know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by
Position Development members or guests seriously. This includes harassment
outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in
time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from
Position Development events based on their past behavior, including
behavior outside Position Development spaces and behavior towards
        people who are not in Position Development.</p>
      <p>In order to protect
response team from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject
any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended
        to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.  </p>
      <p>Wewill respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting
victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person
about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn
third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase
the safety of Position Development guests, members, or the general
public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative
consent.</p>

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      <p>Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are
expected to comply immediately.  If a participant engages in harassing
behavior, Position’s response team may take any action they deem
appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Position
Development spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser
to other Position Development guests, members, or the general
public.</p>

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