- stop and question people who are doing CSA apologia while claiming to support youth liberation, especially when they conflate the latter *and* child sexuality with the ability of adults and teens to "consensually" engage in sexual relationships *with each other*... but we'd have to remember to actually care about kids and teens beyond using them as talking points;

- stop and question people who engage in SWERF talking points, even if they are a sex worker of any sort;

- question our reactions to learning about abuse and rape and why it is that we're willing to let people who "do good work" sit in our spaces even as they hurt people and never do anything to even attempt repairing the situation *they* created;

- interrogate why we often let people say shit about, like, entering sexual relationships in order to "radicalise people" and not engage with what that generally means (also maybe we should think about why it is that there are people who use organising and activist spaces explicitly to get laid).

For the record, this is a non-exhaustive list of things that I definitely noticed in the last round of Surprise! This Person is a Shitbag!

Because there are a lot of warning signs and many of them are grounded in patriarchy and white supremacy. They are your warning signs. Use them.

And this isn't to say people "should have known." But if you get bad vibes, that's a signal to do some digging. Even if that digging is checking in with others you trust.

And because I know it *hurts* to find out someone you respected or liked betrayed your trust, know that it's okay to take time to recover. But don't let that break you.

Trust is good, do not blame yourself for trusting someone. Blame them for breaking that trust, know that it's *their* fault and not yours.

(And if anyone needs to shout at someone, I'll definitely read it. And respond when I'm around.)