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    Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

    To recap #IStandWithCourtney: 1) Sue Grimshaw liked a bunch of real racist shit on Twitter. Some romance authors noticed and started talking about it. Stories about Sue Grimshaw being real fucking racist started coming out.

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      2. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        2) Sue deletes her real fucking racist likes off Twitter, but not before people start asking Suzan Tisdale (amongst others) if she's going to continue to have Sue on as an acquisitions editor at her publishing company, Glenfinnan Publishing.

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      3. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        3) Suzan waves her hands a lot and says Sue is a good person, even if she's, you know, deep in Qanon BS, liked a bunch of racist shit, and has a long history of being real fucking racist. 4) Someone notices Suzan's other acquiring editor at Glenfinnan is Kathryn Lynn Davis.

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      4. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        5) This is only notable because folks have also noticed that Kathryn Lynn Davis has written some real fucking racist trash ass books. HUH, how weird is it that Suzan has 2 acquiring editors, and they're both REALLY FUCKING RACIST? (Spoiler: Not that weird. Birds of a feather.)

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      5. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        6) People start asking more questions, including Courtney Milan who happens to have a bigger twitter following than most, and Suzan waves her hands some more and refuses to do anything about the racist trash bags who comprise her staff and people are not happy.

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      6. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        7) Suzan and Kathryn decide to file complaints with the RWA against Courtney because she's the most prominent voice and also who better to weaponize your white tears against than a WOC succeeding in a subgenre of publishing where you're trying to get some lift?

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      7. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        8) Between Suzan and Kathryn filing their complaints and the RWA making a decision about them, Courtney steps down as the chair of the ethics committee for RWA and a new board of directors is voted in.

        3 replies 39 retweets 1,061 likes
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      8. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        9) Apparently deciding the sitting ethics committee is too close to Courtney, a special ethics committee is convened to investigate the complaints from Suzan and Kathryn. It is unclear how this special committee was convened or who authorized it.

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      9. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Alyssa!!! Cole and the infinite semihiatus

        10) Courtney is given the opportunity to respond to the complaints and dismantles them, b/c she's a lawyer and the complaints are bullshit. Original complaints: https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209280226456473600 … Courtney's response:https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209610966473818112 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Alyssa!!! Cole and the infinite semihiatus @AlyssaColeLit
        Adding to the thread: links to Courtney Milan's responses (sent to RWA) to the Tisdale and Davis complaints. https://docdro.id/v0hn3eA  https://docdro.id/ZxJa4mL 
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      10. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Alyssa!!! Cole and the infinite semihiatus

        11) The second string ethics committee produced the following report in November:https://twitter.com/AlyssaColeLit/status/1209280236870873090 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Alyssa!!! Cole and the infinite semihiatus @AlyssaColeLit
        You can read RWA’s judgement here: https://docdro.id/qj8dh9a 
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      11. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        12) RWA president-elect Damon Suede invents the position of liaison to the ethics committee, and rather than sharing the full text of both complaints against Courtney, as well as Courtney's response, with the Board of Directors, acts as the spokesperson of the ethics committee.

        6 replies 49 retweets 1,045 likes
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      12. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        13) Suede is the one who represented to the RWA BOD the complaints against Courtney, Courtney's response, and the findings of the back-up ethics committee's report. Based on his representation, the BOD votes 10-5 to suspend Courtney and ban her permanently from RWA leadership.

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      13. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        14) All this shit comes out on December 23. Alyssa Cole--author, goddess, and general amazing human being--shares ALLLLLL of this with the internet. 15) For many on the BOD, they see the complaints against Courtney and Courtney's rebuttal in full for the first time on Twitter.

        5 replies 66 retweets 1,590 likes
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      14. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        16) All hell breaks loose.pic.twitter.com/WKkOQvCOsQ

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      15. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted RWA

        17) The RWA tweets that they have "identified a gap between policy and process" and therefore have rescinded their decision against Courtney until they can talk to a lawyer (which is what they should have done from the start but 🤷🏻‍♀️)https://twitter.com/romancewriters/status/1209632798832812034 …

        Cate Eland added,

        RWA @romancewriters
        At a meeting today that identified a gap between policy and process, RWA’s Board of Directors rescinded its vote accepting the findings of the Ethics Committee report and the consequent penalties against Courtney Milan pending a legal opinion. 1/2
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      16. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        18) 9 members of the BOD resign, including pres. Carolyn Jewel (although no one has seen her resignation letter.) 19) 28 local chapter presidents call on the president, president-elect, and executive director of RWA to resign. 20) The CIMRWA calls on their resignations too.

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      17. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        21) Tons of others cancel their membership, state their intention of not renewing membership, withdraw their RITA submissions, and resign as RITA judges.

        1 reply 33 retweets 1,103 likes
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      18. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Laurel Cremant / Snark Maven

        22) A petition is circulating also calling on resignations of now-president Damon Suede and executive director Carol Ritter.https://twitter.com/LaurelCremant/status/1210698582699003906 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Laurel Cremant / Snark Maven @LaurelCremant
        We are 50 signatures away from our goal to recall Damon Suede as the RWA president! PLEASE sign and share if you haven't already! @CIMRWA #SaveRWA #IStandWithCourtney https://forms.gle/pNyqsKsGgTQZpPfJ7 …
        2 replies 57 retweets 1,085 likes
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      19. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted RWA

        23) The RWA continues to dig a deeper hole for itself, by issuing statements like this unsigned garbage stating they're looking forward to letting Suede install a new, unelected board:https://twitter.com/romancewriters/status/1210360016726822914 …

        Cate Eland added,

        RWA @romancewriters
        A message to RWA Members: https://bit.ly/2t8qPuk 
        2 replies 56 retweets 1,062 likes
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      20. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Chuck Tingle

        24) Damon Suede's husband got on Twitter and started brawling with people pointing out that his husband has been up to some shady shit. 25) Damon Suede managed to get called out by Chuck Tingle for lying about him and their relationship. (🤦🏻‍♀️)https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/1210816778936320000 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Chuck Tingle @ChuckTingle
        dont know much but i guess romance writers kicked out lady because she asked them to do better at proving love? but it has brought to my attention that there is scoundrel name of damons that likes attention and is saying he knows chuck for attention. i do not know him he is lying https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1210769765653893120 …
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      21. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Courtney Milan  🦖

        26) Damon Suede sent out this hot mess of an email which brings to light a whole bunch of procedural irregularities, implicates himself as ringleader of the fuckery w/ Courtney, and likely also constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty, because he's an ass.https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1210721424651870215 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Courtney Milan  🦖 @courtneymilan
        Here’s the full message. pic.twitter.com/QYZ7oqXeCd
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      22. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        27) In the background, other people have been raising the alarm about their own ethics complaints that haven't made it past RWA staff to the real ethics committee, encounters w/ RWA staff that raise questions about bigotry on the staff, Suede being a lying liar, and...

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      23. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        28) The fact that RWA has done nothing to help authors under Dreamspinner Press, a gay romance publisher that hasn't paid several of its authors royalties in months. 29) Damon Suede has a book coming out in January with Dreamspinner.

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      24. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        30) Also, while we're on publisher fuckery, lots of folks have pointed out that Suzan and Kathryn essentially entered their complaints not as writers but as publishers, which means they shouldn't have been able to bring a complaint against an author in the first place.pic.twitter.com/D4xkMyoX4w

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      25. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 28 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Melissa Blue, Glorious Purpose

        31) Also, the OCC RWA chapter was paying black speakers HALF the rate of white speakers, an ethics complaint was filed, but no one ever spoke with the black speakers who got stiffed and the president, Jenny Hansen, is still president.https://twitter.com/mel_thegreat/status/1209656494083362816 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Melissa Blue, Glorious Purpose @mel_thegreat
        Okay. So to make sure there are no whisper campaigns I am one of the Black authors who was *previously underpaid by OCC RWA. To fully understand the context I was invited to speak by the liason. I was to give two workshops in March.
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      26. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 29 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Ainsley Wynter

        32) The DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) liaison to the RWA PAN (published authors network) advisory committee resigned after the committee decided the PAN didn't need DEI training this year.https://twitter.com/AinsleyWynter/status/1211316602513350656?s=19 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Ainsley Wynter @AinsleyWynter
        Has anyone announced that the DEI liaison to PAN resigned a few days ago? Despite her recommendations, the PAN board decided not to include any DEI programming for PAN this year, saying it was redundant. SMH.
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      27. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 29 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Mary Lindsey / Marissa Clarke

        33) Nora Roberts, High Priestess of Romancelandia, has weighed in.https://twitter.com/MaryL_MarissaC/status/1211341144245833728?s=19 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Mary Lindsey / Marissa Clarke @MaryL_MarissaC
        Replying to @MaryL_MarissaC @mostlybree
        1. pic.twitter.com/J8Bscd9rPX
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      28. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 29 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted HelenKay Dimon / Darby Kane

        34) Former RWA president HelenKay Dimon talks about how the decision to ask Courtney to step down from the ethics committee was made.https://twitter.com/helenkaydimon/status/1211369882358435840?s=19 …

        Cate Eland added,

        HelenKay Dimon / Darby Kane @helenkaydimon
        I want to be absolutely transparent about this...I am the one who asked Courtney to step down as ethics chair. It was one of my final acts. I did it for a few reasons: 1. She tweeted about how if people had concerns about the Tisdale issue to make an ethics comp (paraphrasing).
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      29. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 29 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Author Leslie Kelly

        35) Former RWA president Leslie Kelly discusses how changes to ethics committee procedures made in October were clearly done to pave the way for ousting Courtney and giving Damon Suede the ability to do so:https://twitter.com/lesliekelly/status/1211362062137360384?s=19 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Author Leslie Kelly @lesliekelly
        1/ I'm late to the party on this aspect of the RWA fiasco. The changes to the PPM at the October meeting--who appoints new chair to the Ethics Committee, how conflicts of interest were handled. (Out you go, not just recused.)
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      30. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 29 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted CIMRWA

        36) The RWA has attempted to invalidate the CIMRWA's recall petition. If you signed it, please check your email for follow-up instructions.https://twitter.com/CIMRWA/status/1211380895535501313 …

        Cate Eland added,

        CIMRWA @CIMRWA
        ***Breaking*** Today CIMRWA learned of coordinated efforts from @romancewriters to invalidate and reject the Recall Petition that so many of you signed. As a result, we have sent each person who signed an email with instructions.
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      31. Cate Eland‏ @RomancingNope 30 Dec 2019

        Cate Eland Retweeted Lorelie Brown

        37) The RWA sent out another email, saying (amongst other things) they are hiring a law firm to conduct an independent audit and criticizing present and former RWA leaders who have spoken out against RWA. No mention of a recall.https://twitter.com/LorelieBrown/status/1211740591161131008 …

        Cate Eland added,

        Lorelie Brown @LorelieBrown
        New RWA statement has dropped. Check your inboxes, darlings. pic.twitter.com/HPWxyKotr9
        3 replies 7 retweets 112 likes
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