Welcome to FAVNET!
FAVNET Feminists Against Violence Network
FAVNET was founded by Marc Dubin (mdubin@ix.netcom.com) with the
assistance of Andy Bartalone
1. To provide survivors of and advocates against domestic violence, child
abuse, sexual assault, stalking, and other acts of male violence access to
resources and support. These resources include a worldwide network of
committed women and men who struggle daily to end violence against women.
2. To provide news & information about events and political
developments that affect violence against women.
3. To provide accurate statistics about violence against women.
4. To provide a place where survivors and people working to end domestic
violence & male violence against women can meet, help one another, share
their stories, feel less isolated, and be empowered.
5. To provide a place where violence against women can be put into a
political, social, and historical perspective.
6. To provide a resource where those in need of help can meet those able to
help them, obtain accurate information, or referrals to programs that aim
to end violence against women.
7. To provide a place where these interactions and discussions can happen
within a feminist environment and based on a feminist perspective.
FAVNET is a FULLY-MODERATED list. We ask that all subscribers adhere to
the following norms of nettiquette, respecting the dignity & good taste of
all involved. Plurality of opinions is great--flaming & misogyny is not.
Appropriate topics include: Grant information for non-profit agencies
working to end violence against women; Information about speakers,
conferences, publications, etc. on the topic of domestic violence &
violence against women; Survivors' stories; Information regarding programs
addressing violence against women; Available domestic violence & violence
against women resources; Requests for assistance; Offers of assistance;
News about violence against women; Information about laws concerning
domestic violence & violence against women; Information about medicine and
violence against women; Information about law enforcement and violence
against women; Information about courts and violence against women;
Information about businesses and violence against women; Discussion about
privilege gained through violence as a means to oppress women.
If there is something questionable in a post, the moderator will return it
to the original author with suggestions for editting, expansion, etc.
Although the moderator may reformat your post for legibility (or clip a
wholescale quote of a post) AT NO TIME WILL THE MODERATOR EDIT YOUR POST.
YOUR WORDS ARE YOUR OWN!
In summary, if the post is related to domestic violence &/or violence
against women and is free of misogyny or flames, it is posted. Anything
off topic will be returned.
Subscribers who are disruptive (on- or off-list) or who do not agree to
abide by nettiquette as interpretted by the list moderator will be
suspended or unsubscribed. Please consult
http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/net/dis.html for further details on
nettiquette.
Likewise, if you're new to the list (and this topic), ask questions; don't
blithely challenge listmembers who may have a better personal and/or
professional understanding of the issues than you do.
Crossposting personal info will result in a warning & may result in
unsubsciption. Crossposting any post to a Father Rights &/or the
Masculinist Lobby forum will result in immediate unsubscription upon
discovery & without warning, and a complaint filed with their internet
service provider.
Finally, FULL MODERATION means that although there maybe slips in all of
the above (we are very humyn ;-) FAVNET is a great space for feminists &
pro-feminists to meet, discuss, strategize, and implement a violence-free
society where women (& their children & menfolk) can live free from fear.
THE GOALS OF FAVNET
GUIDLINES FOR POSTING TO FAVNET
1. Topics
2. Subject Lines
Please use the subject line so that it accurately reflects the content of
your post. This helps subscribers manage the high volume mail days more
efficiently. Please use the prefix FAV: in the subject line of your post
(ex: FAV: New DV Study).
3. Common Sense Sensitivity
In joining FAVNET, all subscribers should do two things:
A) Agree to take extra responsibility for the way in which they
express their ideas and emotions on list. If you have to
"vent" about a FAVNET matter, do it off-list.
B) Remember the limits of the medium, e-mail, that we work in!
E-mail isn't formal or face-to-face, so people tend to "speak"
thoughtlessly or carelessly when rushing to post in their
free time, etc. Do not assume that an ignorant and/or hurtful
comment was made with ill-will in mind. If you feel offended,
see "A", above, and compose and post a clarifying question.
4. Disrespect
Posting of misogynist materials is inappropriate and will result in the
poster's unsubscription from the list.
5. Diversity
Although listmembers have subscribed because of a common goal, they bring
different backgrounds, approaches, and perspectives to the on-list
discussions. This diversity is to be encouraged and respected by all
listmembers. Please remember that trolls will be unsubscribed; the
uneducated, however, have subscribed in order to learn: please teach them
by explaining *why* they are in error--don't attack them for their lack of
understanding.
6. Personal information
Please limit the amount of personal, identifying information you post to
the list (e.g. addresses, personal history that you wouldn't want
discussed in a public forum). Although trolls will be removed, "Father's
Rights" advocates and other members of the Male Lobby have shown a
flattering amount of interest in FAVNET. They, and other persons hostile
to the list's goals, have previously lied about themselves in order to be
subscribed--and stayed silent while receiving and then forwarding FAVNET
posts to other lists, often with snide editorial comments attached. Since
it's not feasible to unsubscribe all the "lurkers", this is a problem that
it difficult (if not impossible) to eliminate. Please be cautious.
7. Formatting
When posting to FAVNET, please take care in your post's format. Try to
repair line breaks, strip needless headers & quotes ">". Kindly identify
the person whom you are quoting. Also do not quote an entire post & then
tack your comments at the end (the entire quoted post may be clipped);
rather intersperse your comments throughout the post. Care in formatting
will greatly aid people in reading your posts & acquiring new info.
Please refrain from simply posting "one-liners", "me-tos", & "atta girl!"
comments, but add your own comments/information to forward the thread. If
a thread has "frayed", becomes hostile, or simply outlives its usefulness,
the moderator reseves the right to issue a STOP POST by a certain date &
time.
8. Crossposting
Although there are many informational posts on FAVNET, please get the
poster's expressed permission to crosspost offlist (it would also help if
the original poster notes at the beginning of the post "Please
Distribute"). If you crosspost from another list, please include the
original poster's address & the list from which it was crossposted. Same
if you crosspost appropriate info to another list: please include the
original poster's address & line "Crossposted From: FAVNET@otd.com"--this
way people can keep track of appropriate forums, how their info is being
used, and subscribers can choose to pursue dialogue with the original
author, who is often not a subscriber to the list to which their article
was crossposted. Flagrant violation of any of the above may result in
unsubscription.
By subscribing to FAVNET list, you are agreeing to observe the norms of
nettiquette & nettiquette unique to FAVNET, and to accept the consequences
for any violation. In short, Netiquette = RESPECT!
FAVNET ADMINISTRATA
To subscribe to FAVNET, please send a message to favnet@otd.com with the
following info:
1) Full Name
2) Email Address
3) A brief discription of your background
4) A brief comment on why you would like to subscribe to FAVNET
To post a message to FAVNET, send the message to:
Feminists Against Violence Network (favnet@otd.com)
It will be automatically forwarded to the moderator for her approval
INTERNET RESOURCES RELATED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
New subscribers are also encouraged to checkout the following lists &
internet resources:
Email Lists:
Abigail's Rebels ABIGAILS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM--a feminist activist discussion list
END_VIOLENCE end-violence@edc-cit.org --a discussion list in preparation for UNIFEM's dv/vaw March 1999 conference. See UNIFEM
FGM-L fmg-l@hollyfeld.org --a list organized against Female Genital Mutilation
FIVERS fmg-l@hollyfeld.org-- Feminists against Intimate Violence through Empowerment, Energizing, Education, Exchange Resources, Resistance, Research AND Support. An excellent list organizing against domestic violence.
RECLAIM THE NIGHT webweave@isis.aust.com--an email list from Australia, dedicated anti-dv/vaw activities.
RURALCONNECT ruralconnect@plains.net)dv/vaw & rural women
Or check out any number of gender-inclusive, feminist-related forums as
listed in Joan Korenman's frequently updated pages:
Women's Studies: UMBC and Beyond
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/
Guide to Feminist Mailing Lists
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
The FAVNET website http://geocities.datacellar.net/Wellesley/8984/favnet.html
features links to other sites, organized according to different dv/vaw topics (ex: glbt dv, dv & substance abuse, foreign language
dv/vaw resources,etc).
Other outstading dv/vaw websites include:
DOJ Violence Against Women Office
http://justice2.usdoj.gov/vawo/
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE, 1-800-787-3224 (TDD)
Justice Information Center Homepage:
http://www.ncjrs.org/homepage.htm
Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/index.asp
Rural Womyn Zone: Violence Against Rural Women
http://www.wowwomen.com/ruralzone/domvio.htm
SafetyNet: Domestic Violence Resources:
http://www.cybergrrl.com/dv.html
Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (info in spanish & english)
http://www.taasa.org/
Victim Services: Domestic Violence Shelter tour
http://www.dvsheltertour.org/
*****
Thanks!
FAVNET moderator, Jennifer Gagliardi (gagliajn@netcom.com)
a copy of this infocard is available @
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Wellesley/8984/favnet-info.html
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