A public service announcement for those of you in SFF circles

2015-08-26T01:16:03Z

[Note: this is a repost of a post that was locked. I decided I needed to post it publicly after all, but people commented on the original post in the understanding that it was private. Hence the repost.]

I know there are people who follow me who are either pro writers or active in mainstream SFF fandom. This is a PSA for you guys.

There's a sci-fi and fantasy writer who goes by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, aka Winterfox, aka Requires Hate, aka a number of older pseudonyms. If you are active in SFF circles you have probably heard of her in some context, because in addition to her having stories in a number of venues, SF writer Laura Mixon won a Hugo this year for an investigative journalism blog post documenting Sriduangkaew's long history of bullying, stalking, trolling, harassing, blackmailing, and otherwise threatening and abusing people.

I haven't had any personal run-ins with her, but I know from multiple accounts from people I trust that she is BAD NEWS. The reason why I'm posting this now is because a) she recently went after a friend of mine again and FUCK THAT SHIT, and b) I noticed that after Mixon's post dropped off people's radar last winter, there was a lot of semi-successful effort on the part of Sriduangkaew and a handful of her friends to rebrand everything as a smear campaign against her because she is a queer writer of color. That's bullshit. Or perhaps I should say, either dozens of people (including people I know and like and trust) are lying about her AND someone keeps hijacking her Twitter to post smears against her favorite bully targets, or she is a lying piece of scum. I know which one I'm going with.

( Cut for more description of her tactics and why you should be careful of her )

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A public service announcement for those of you in SFF circles