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JJ Slater
@tealversace.bsky.social
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She/they. Queer. '98. VA, Bassist, Writer, Shortass. #cd6cf0 always.

MS, BPD, ADHD, doing my best, tryna vibe 🤘
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tealversace.bsky.social
Yeah. Im trying to hold a local theatre company accountable for protecting predators, and the backlash I've recieved from the company president is.. YIKES.

She's hard restricted fb(but kept me added), removed me from company groups, is keeping an eye on my LinkedIn and called me a Stupid Bitch! 🤪
January 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
tealversace.bsky.social
Second post where notable removal - OP says theyre moving to Launceston soon (3 months ago) and looking for theatre recs. My comment and another have been removed.
Here's what I said.
My comment reads "There's a few different Facebook groups that put up info about auditions. Black Box is small but promising, Launceston Musical Society is getting back into doing shows. Someone already mentioned I.O. who dip into a lot of different things. Theres a handful of choirs around too. Due to the size of the place though, if you're in the circle of one, you're bound to see a lot from the circles of others. Also if you drive, there are some good groups in Devonport and Burnie from what I've heard, and if you're coming from the city the drive is comparatively short. I won't comment on the ongoing Encore stuff, I was involved in their last 2 shows without any problems but morally am incredibly on the fence about them moving forward- which sucks, cause there are some genuinely great people involved, but as a company imo they need to take accountability for harm that's happened and/or at MINIMUM speak out against it. Feel free to DM me with any questions, I'll do my best to answer :)"
January 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
Thankfully, I can still see my comments when logged in even though others can't. So here's a copy.
IMG 1. A comment made by me on the r/launceston subbreddit. The post title reads "Encore Theatre Company 'concerned' by allegations against Danny Gibson" My comment reads; "Hate to be on my soapbox here, but these answers are so surface level. How hard is it to publicly say 'we take all accusations seriously, substantiated or not, and can and will conduct internal investigations to prevent further issues of this nature' instead of constant non answers and redirecting people to read their code of conduct (which they can't even seem to follow). But I guess making a statement like that would open them up to too much scrutiny. Even though if ANYONE comes out with evidence of recent misconduct right now, ETC's reputation is as good as gone. Absolutely baffling corporate behaviour." IMG 2. 2 comments made by others on the r/launceston subbreddit. The post title reads "Encore Theatre Company 'concerned' by allegations against Danny Gibson" Image reads as follows; 1 deleted comment. First reply, by GuaranteeNumerous300. "Garwood has skeletons in his own closet in this regard. I suspect they will come out in due course. I agree that a lot of the rumours about Danny are homophobic slander. The allegations reported are concerning and I think it's right that he's not working with the company. However, they are not illegal actions and his WWVP card has not actually been cancelled." Second reply, by shap08 "The WWVP check is clearly inadequate, as shown by the James Griffin case. He maintained his clearance until his removal from the LGH. A zero-tolerance policy for misconduct is essential, especially within police and healthcare. The emphasis needs to be on preventing all harmful behaviors, rather than debating the specific motivations behind them." IMG 3. A comment made by me on the r/launceston subbreddit, in reply to the comments in IMG 2. My comment reads; "It is entirely inadequate. As far as I understand WWVP checks only look for any kind of police filing against the person. Issue with this is that we still live in an era where people don't feel safe/comfortable making reports about misconduct and many orgs don't do their job forwarding reports to the relevant industries when they're brought forward (e.g. police). Encore have rolled out WWVP checks ahead of their youth program and current show (with the cast being majority children) which is an empty show of faith imo. Especially considering they have simultaneously chosen to keep someone who has, to the best of my knowledge, *allegedly* sexually harassed several young women within the last year - whom he had access to due to Encore productions - involved in productions, AND made excuses to the victims for the behaviour. These events have been brought to the attention of Encore's pres and no action has been taken aside from 'a warning'. The situation with Danny is the absolute tip of the iceberg (regardless of if the claims against him are true or not), because ETC is CURRENTLY protecting someone harmful. I full encourage anyone with any info about the misconduct at ETC to file an intelligence report with the police. I've been through the process myself and am happy to help advocate for you wherever possible, and submit on your behalf anonymously if necessary. I'm likely already in the line of fire and have probably already been internally barred from any work with them for speaking out, so I'm going to keep speaking on what I know until the people who continue to enable this behaviour are held accountable. This article alone really highlights how much they claim to care. If they'd take continued actual, meaningful, responsible action, maybe people speaking out about it wouldn't be such an issue to them."
January 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
THAT CAME OUT IN 2007 BTW?!!???!
December 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
tealversace.bsky.social
Ugh,I really wish we had one of these in Launceston. Would love to get a little bit back of the $30-ish we pay for water 😭😭
December 18, 2024 at 11:17 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
They could've done a "we understand your upset but due to (insert reasonable or unreasonable causes here) we are no longer able to offer our previous prices" but instead did a "why aren't you blindly supporting a small business!? We're a struggling!"

Everyone is. It's not a pass to be predatory.
December 7, 2024 at 12:43 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
Do not try to justify this in the replies or you will be blocked lmao.

It was $6.75 for >1yr, there is no way that labor & resources have doubled in less than a month. Either they're price gouging or the business has been mismanaged, in which case it is not on the customer to bail them out.
December 7, 2024 at 12:34 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
2 different Uber Eats screenshots, showing the same 4 items. On the left, a receipt from November 5th 2024, totalling $27.89. On the right, a cart showing listed prices on December 7th 2024, totalling $51.96.
December 7, 2024 at 12:27 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
But fr, <copingmechanism> and Empathogen kept me GOING this year with how much growth and unearthing of buried everything I've been doing. Nice balance of my BPD shit reflected and also moving forward. Been good.
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
tealversace.bsky.social
Someone else w both PinkPantheress AND Willow in the Top 5. Feeling seen!
December 4, 2024 at 6:18 PM