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Schedule Change Announcement
Jun. 3rd, 2020 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klbPod-Together 2020 sign-ups will stay open for an additional week, now closing on Saturday June 13th. All the other dates from the challenge will also be pushed back a week, and these changes have been reflected in an update to the timeline in the Rules.
We’ve made this decision because of the ongoing protests against police brutality in the United States. We want to step back and not draw focus away from this vital activist effort. In addition, beginning a new project in times of high stress can feel overwhelming, and we don’t want to be an additional source of anxiety for participants.
A week from now isn’t very far in the future, and we know there will still be ongoing protests, actions, stress, and uncertainty, but fandom is a space many of us use to support our mental health. Particularly in the wake of COVID-19 and the way it uprooted lives, we feel it is important to participant well-being that we provide a predictable schedule.
We also want to honor the important anti-racism work being done in the world right now and to move intentionally towards anti-racism within our own selves (as white mods) and the Pod-Together community. We will be actively reflecting on this ourselves throughout this coming round of Pod-Together through reading and discussion of anti-racist literature, and we are also open to input—you can reach us at pod.together@gmail.com.
We’ve made this decision because of the ongoing protests against police brutality in the United States. We want to step back and not draw focus away from this vital activist effort. In addition, beginning a new project in times of high stress can feel overwhelming, and we don’t want to be an additional source of anxiety for participants.
A week from now isn’t very far in the future, and we know there will still be ongoing protests, actions, stress, and uncertainty, but fandom is a space many of us use to support our mental health. Particularly in the wake of COVID-19 and the way it uprooted lives, we feel it is important to participant well-being that we provide a predictable schedule.
We also want to honor the important anti-racism work being done in the world right now and to move intentionally towards anti-racism within our own selves (as white mods) and the Pod-Together community. We will be actively reflecting on this ourselves throughout this coming round of Pod-Together through reading and discussion of anti-racist literature, and we are also open to input—you can reach us at pod.together@gmail.com.
