The abuse seems quite serious. In particular the following appear to be true. (At the end of this post I will cite these claims with specific links)

1) Autumn Raped Iris

2) Autumn Abused Iris

3) Autumn Would not stop trying to contact Iris

4) Iris had to barricade her room

5) Iris was physically and verbally aggressive. In particular she did not respect the above barricade

=== Glossary of Important People to understand

“Deleted User” is Iris; her Discord account was banned during this process. She has consented to the release of these logs. Autumn is Jaded/Jadedkitten Tara, Kay, Lorelei and Bonfire are Iris’s partners. Bonfire and Iris currently live together Sophia (aka SoundLogic), Lexicat (aka Lexi), and Nathan are Iris’s close friends. SEARCH is a Seattle EA and rationality Org. ‘The Territory’ is the Seattle group-house that holds many public events.

(the full logs have an expanded glossary)

=== Bonfire’s statement about Trying to work with the Seattle Community

“It is now March 31st. We’ve recently received contact with SEARCH’s new board asking for more direct contact, and while we’ve been afforded that, we’ve also been told that they were not aware of the public statements made in this channel, nor were they aware of attempts to contact them after the initial failed conversation in February. We’ve also been told that people on the panel have not been engaged with Discord for their own mental health, but have attempted to maintain open lines of communication otherwise.

To summarize the timeline of events, Zylphia first contacted the Territory sometime in November about allegations against Autumn and was not taken seriously. Tara tried to contact again in December while she was visiting Iris before her move to the Bay Area, got in touch with someone claiming to represent the Territory, made herself available, and then was never followed up with. In early January, Zylphia got a message from Florence that SEARCH and the Territory had made their initial decision to allow Autumn back, pending completion of a consent class; this was apparently despite never having spoken to Tara or listening to the audio logs she sent. This is when someone leaked the screenshot containing that Facebook message and the whole process became public, as we felt it was no longer possible to work entirely privately with these organizations.

After that, Orborde got into contact with me, then quickly stopped talking after I expressed that it would be somewhat unreasonable to not have this process play out in public, since it had only started again because it was in public. We had then started talking to Aquatic Color through direct message on Discord, as they said, in February, but unlike what they said, we continued talking quite a bit after our scheduling issue in February that caused Iris to no longer want to speak directly to the these organizations. I stress “directly,” as she did not then say that she wants us to stop this process. Aquatic Color and I have been talking since then through Discord, a medium through which we sent our last DM in February and never got a response to. SEARCH presumably instead chose to post in Heterodyning in March, explaining that they in fact did attempt to reach out with Iris, omitting that that only happened after the fact, made a public statement saying that SEARCH and the Territory are different organizations, and blamed such structure for the miscommunication. We then posted a response to their public statement saying that we’d love to believe them, but the half-hearted attempts to get in touch with us despite our own multiple direct lines of communication were frustrating to the extreme.

This claim that they haven’t been able to talk with us since the scheduling issue in February? It doesn’t match with the multiple public statements Aquatic Color has made in March. The fact that people apparently cannot be on Discord for their own mental health ignores that Discord was the primary mode of communication since January, and ignores that communication only died after we made a request publicly, in the same channel Aquatic Color had been making their statements, and in the same channel that has primarily been considered “public space.” Their claim that they’ve been maintaining open channels of communication apparently don’t include the ones that they have actually been using up until now.

We don’t want to imply that people need to be here if it is bad for their mental health. However, the fact that the new panel is apparently not aware of SEARCH’s own public statements on Discord tells us that this failure to communicate is institutional. We don’t trust this new panel to act properly, as apparently there has been no continuity between the post-adhoc panel and this new organization.

We’d like to remind everyone why this process started. SEARCH did not find it necessary to ban Autumn from their spaces, despite overwhelming, undisputed evidence that zie raped Iris, inflicted tinnitus on her, harassed her for months, made her feel it was necessary to barricade her door, and instigated multiple confrontations with pepper spray. Zie’s a danger to the community and to those around hyr. We’ve sent off this copy of the logs to SEARCH and the Territory, and we don’t particularly plan on going much further than that. We also release these logs detailing exactly what happened to the public so you can judge whether our position and our frustration is justified.

At this point, we’re tired. This process has taken more out of us than has ever been necessary, and this process was completely avoidable if SEARCH took the allegations seriously from the beginning.

They have this log now. We’re done pushing them to care.”

=== Citations for Claims (1) – (6)

1) Autumn Admitting to rape (this is a transcript): https://pastebin.com/rjmgw1Fi

2) Autumn admits to abuse: https://pastebin.com/t0x6TjD2

3) Autumn would not stop trying to contact Iris:

https://pastebin.com/Dv1CC7xh(very clear)

4) Iris had to Barricade her room: /img/a5fe6f492cf8059380251773e8577e0c.png

5) Iris was physically and verbally aggressive. In particular she did not respect the above barricade

[23:26] JadedKitten: She threatened to call the cops on me

[23:26] Lorelei: yeah. i know

[23:26] JadedKitten: For what she called a fight

[23:26] JadedKitten: …

[23:26] Lorelei: she told me

[23:21] JadedKitten: She is delusional about this

[23:22] JadedKitten: She said that her moving out of the way was me “fighting” her

[23:41] JadedKitten: And she tried pushing me back [23:41] JadedKitten: And she couldn’t stop me [23:41] JadedKitten: So I just kept going

https://pastebin.com/K7zU9wzD(note the collateral in this case belonged to Iris. This is the source for the above quotes)

Personal Note

I do not partiuclarly endorse ‘callout culture’. No can I personally endorse the authenticity of the logs provided by Bonfire. However Bonfire et all have provided substantial amounts of evidence. I was not personally in contact with anyone involved in the events in Michigan. However I have been somewhat involved in the ongoing situation in Seattle. Some of the communication between Bonfire and the Territory/Search has occured in a discord channel I am following. Based on my experience Bonfire’s version of events interacting with SEARCH and the Teritory seems credible to me.