For many years now, I have had no involvement with the show beyond being a normal exhibitor, but it has made me so happy to see the show continue to grow and thrive. But what's happening now makes me deeply uncomfortable.
I think this was handled about as poorly as it could have been. And it doesn't feel like anyone is meaningfully engaging with anything Miriam has actually written or said, either in her actual work or in interviews that can be found via five seconds of googling.
It certainly reads that they were convinced by a pressure campaign from a loud group that communicated primarily via direct methods where they wouldn't experience pushback.
And then post-announcement all the pushback that would have organically happened against a public pressure campaign [cont]