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upthewitchypunx:alexwrekk:blushandmumble:alexwrekk:alexwrekk:upthewitchypunx:upthewitchypunx:alexwrekk:Hey friends! I still need some help with my legal fees! My next invoice is probably close to $15,000. It is expensive to do this correctly and a lot of work and research went into preparing the motion we filed.I’ve got $6,000 of my own money and if we can get to $10,000 by the end of the month it would be great! Every but helps!Each donation of $10 or more will receive access to a project @actorslashvampire and I are working on! @stumblingdistance is a zine and music project we have been meaning to put together for years. We have some songs and plan to make some zines to go along with the songs. All donations over $10 will get a zine mailed to you and a download code for a song! It’s super fun stuff. https://www.gofundme.com/legal-fee-fund-for-alex-wrekkHey friends! I still need your help! Reblogging would be so kind of you!I just made an update that some of those asking questions that I can’t answer would be interested in reading.I just posted an update including a new filing if you would like to read it. 8 days left to donate! For folks who are curious about the documents but unwilling to read about a hundred pages of legalese, I’m here to do it so that you don’t have to. I’m a lawyer and a personal friend of Alex’s, and I thought these were great morning tea reading so now I will summarize, though please understand that this is my take and my perspective:Alex and Joe were together for a while, married for some of that time, and business partners for some of that time at Microcosm Publishing. They both wrote quite a bit about their relationship and other goings-on in their zines.About ten years ago, Alex realized that Joe was emotionally abusive. Their relationship ended, they divorced. Alex got the house, Joe got Microcosm. Around this time, they had communication about Joe’s emotional abuse, and both wrote about it in their zines, which were available for public consumption. This is a fact and not up for debate, and it’s well-known through the zine community what happened - as a personal aside, I wasn’t involved much in the community at the time because I was in law school and I knew about it.Joe has since gotten some therapy, including a diagnosis of Asperger’s under the DSM-IV and now under the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder. In a move that is 100% pure ableism, he is arguing that he wasn’t abusive toward Alex, but that he has a disability and she misinterpreted his actions. As a personal asde here, I think all of us in the disability community know that autism does not make people emotionally abusive and it’s pretty horrible to say that. However, Joe’s actual legal argument is that he wasn’t abusive, just autistic.Since their breakup and Joe’s refusal to be accountable for his abusive behavior, there has been substantial backlash from within the zine community. Joe and Microcosm have lost business and been rejected from many events, because the zine community does its best to create safer spaces and someone with a known history of emotional abuse is not going to be welcome in a space where a lot of people have experienced abuse of various types. Joe has blamed being disinvited from these events on Alex, and he is blaming her for his loss of business. He is essentially saying that Alex has huge influence over the entire zine community and can get everyone to do what she wants, regardless of the truth of the situation. In fact, Alex has been very circumspect about what has gone on, and like most people who have experienced abusive relationships, she mostly wants to go on with her life. Joe is functionally continuing his abusive behavior by filing lawsuits against her and demanding that only his re-write of events be allowed to stand, rather than acknowledging that he has alienated many people in this community and people are making their own choices not to associate with a known abuser. Because Joe is continuing his abuse in the form of multiple lawsuits (this one isn’t the first) he is essentially trying to impoverish Alex into silence, and thus exclude her from the zine community that way - he thinks that if she doesn’t have the money to pay attorney’s fees and satisfy whatever judgment he is fantasizing about, she also won’t be able to attend zine fests and he will be better able to bully organizers into including him. He’s wrong about this for multiple reasons, but that’s what’s happening here. It has never occurred to Joe that the reason people don’t want him around is because abusers are not welcome in this community, and regardless of what he has done in the aftermath to try to rewrite history and blame his disability, people know what he did and are deciding, independent of any mind-control rays from Alex, that they don’t want him around. As a personal aside, it’s lovely to see an abuser actually lose business and realize they’re not welcome. I wish this would happen more.If you’ve got a little cash, even like $2, and are up for helping someone who has experienced abuse fight her abuser in court so she can go on with her life on her own terms rather than under his dictates, please donate. This is a good cause, and her lawyer is doing a ton of great work on it, and it will matter for other people who are escaping bad situations and dealing with abusers who just won’t let go.Thank you for your support and glad this was good morning tea reading! I’m also glad to hear that you think my attorney is doing great work. I have had a really good experience working with Cliff. I’ve also had a lot of help from my friend Amber who has been holding my hard through all of this.I received the court’s order and our anti-SLAPP motion was granted!This mean this lawsuit is over. It could be appealed, but it is over for now. I am so relieved! -- source link

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