Regarding the recent departure of a writer from the zine roster.

	Firstly, we’d like to state that any of the decisions made that are about to be discussed were not decided upon lightly, and were in fact informed by an extensive amount of time and consideration.
	Last week, several working professionals and survivors of SA reached out to the mod team in an expression of discomfort towards sharing a space and being featured alongside a writer who partakes in content said professionals and survivors found personally triggering or did not wish to be associated with publicly--especially writing featuring incest, lack of or dubious consent and, in particular, the recent ‘Sex Pest Sex Fest’ hosted by the writer who was removed. They all offered to quietly leave the project, as they did not wish to single the writer out or cause them any distress. As the number of uncomfortable individuals at the time was low, the mod team aimed to prioritize the writer's largely finished contribution out of fairness, and elected to allow a handful of other creators to leave. However, as the volume of contributors expressing discomfort increased, we had to consider what was best for the majority and do our best to respect legitimate triggers and boundaries. If these people came forth, how many others might have felt similarly but were not comfortable speaking up? As a team, we could not have predicted peoples’ reactions or triggers, nor expected them to check each profile when a contributor was introduced. We accepted the writer with one thing in mind: the kind of fic you write now and then does not define the whole of your person. Our correspondence with the writer was respectful and professional in its entirety. We as a privately run charity fan project reserve the right to manage our roster--in this case, we utilized this authority to respect the valid concerns and triggers of individuals who trusted us enough to reach out.
	None of the individuals who came forth were in any way involved in any social media events that might have taken place in weeks prior regarding difficult subjects in fan content, and acted entirely out of valid personal discomfort and boundary-setting related directly to trauma and professionalism. It was not in any way coordinated and was entirely private.
	We’d like to emphasize that we did all we could to keep this writer on, but in the end, decided that the comfort and safety of the numerous SA survivors and professionals expressing discomfort was our priority.
We'd also like to clarify that we have not deleted any social media posts save for one pertaining to the writers' announcements, as it was accumulating an intolerable level of harassment in its replies and contained a typo. Any CC answers that are not featured on the Twitter account were never featured there to begin with.
	The project will proceed to completion on schedule.
	We thank all of you for your time and understanding.