MISSION: Violet Fringe Studios (VFS) is a group of queer kinksters that came together to increase access and education for folks with alternative identities and taboo interests in the greater Pittsburgh area. We use our inclusive space to mitigate the inherent risk involved in these practices. We aim to uplift the intersections of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community members, while learning and growing together.
The facilitators of Violet Fringe Studios are volunteers who pledge to maintain the following (to the best of their ability):
Provide space and shared resources for community groups to use for social and educational events
Require groups to comply with our mission and discrimination/ inclusivity statement
Implement our “Incident Reporting Process” for all subsidiaries of VFS and all active community members
Respond to all directemails sent to [email protected] or messages sent to our FL page within 1 week
The Violet Fringe Studios community is open to any and all individuals regardless of their personal intersection of identities, granted they respect the consent, autonomy, privacy and identity of others.
DISCRIMINATION/ INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT: We expect participants of Violet Fringe Studios events to respect other participants through their words and actions. We do not condone language or behavior that is: ableist, ageist, bigoted, classist, fatphobic, homophobic, misogynist, racist, sexist, transphobic, or whorephobic.
To clarify, discriminatory language or inappropriate behavior of any kind will not be tolerated, and will result in immediate muting from our servers, and initiation of our “Incident Reporting Process,” which may lead to your removal from all Violet Fringe Studios events and/or platforms. **If you ever feel like your consent, autonomy, privacy, or identity has been violated on a Violet Fringe Studios platform, at a Violet Fringe Studios event, or elsewhere in the community at large, we encourage you to alert one of the 5 core facilitators privately, or via email at [email protected]
**All reports will be taken seriously and investigated further. If a reporter is found to be fabricating a report or using this process for material or social gain, this will be considered as its own incident of disrespect towards the facilitators of Violet Fringe Studios, and initiate further action.