[Blacklabcollective] Banning and burn out

[Megan Speers]

For sure. And I mean I don't care. I'm not friends with him at all and it's
because of his long illustrious history. If someone wants to kick him out
that's fine w me. I am just sick of the expectation that we as a collective
need to take on everyone's shit. It's annoying.
On Jun 21, 2016 10:32 AM, "Anju Singh" <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> That said if he gets asked to leave he should leave.
>
> On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We can talk about it at the meeting but our policy isn't to ban people...
>> in general I think ppl need to realize it isn't our responsibility as a
>> venue to manage every negative social interaction and beef that arises. I'm
>> also feeling the burnout and am gona talk about a hiatus at the meeting.
>> On Jun 21, 2016 10:18 AM, "Anju Singh" <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok good call
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, mick mccann <nomoreroads at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I totally understand where youre coming from anju! Life and the
>>>> problems people bring to us although all valid can be way too much to take
>>>> on at times.
>>>>  So the meeting tomorrow we'll talk about the foat banning and the
>>>> woman playing the iskra gig who someone has a problem with I guess.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not a caregiving type (hence, I'm a technician and don't answer my
>>>>> phone) so I'm burning the fuck out on taking care of Graham (it has been 1
>>>>> of 7 weeks). I am dropping everything on my plate that isn't my own
>>>>> art/music/volunteer work with other poc until September because I can't
>>>>> keep up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm bottomlining tonight, Tara is bottomlining the iskra show in
>>>>> July I'm promoting, and then that should be it for my black lab stuff. I
>>>>> won't be going out much in the next while either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm also unable to take on more sensitive stuff like banning, there is
>>>>> someone who doesn't want to be named who says that Foat should be banned
>>>>> from black lab and doesn't want him at the next shows. My answer wasn't
>>>>> good, I just said, ok ban him, and they said how can I enforce it and I
>>>>> said why do we have to enforce it, and then I was like oh, damn I'm so
>>>>> burnt out I don't care and they were like ok, but then take it to the
>>>>> collective and I agreed. They don't feel comfortable talking to anyone and
>>>>> just said they wanted the collective to know that a group of people don't
>>>>> want him at shows. Anonymity is important to them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also received a complaint about a girl playing the iskra show, but
>>>>> again I was like i can't take it on so if anyone wants to navigate that for
>>>>> me, id appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Going to a cabin on Friday, really need that right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anju
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Anju Singh
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
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>>> Anju Singh
>>>
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