#BIGBAD
BOYCOTT
UPDATE:
We have accepted Big Bad Con's response to our demands. They have put out a pro-Palestine values statement, retracted anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine censorship, and committed to consulting with relevant groups in the TTRPG space over the next year. Though the statement is not as strong as we would have liked, we accept it in good faith as a demonstration of effort on the part of Big Bad's staff. We have given Big Bad our feedback on the statement and hope they will amend it to be more firmly anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine.Since the boycott demands have been met, the #BigBadBoycott will not move forward on Oct. 1st. As per the terms of the boycott, we will not be hosting an alternative convention.At the same time, we understand that Big Bad's leadership has acted and failed to act in ways that have been harmful to the community, especially to people of colour (PoC). Many have expressed a loss of trust in Big Bad Con as a space as it currently stands. We have expressed as much to the staff and have suggested courses of action they can take to do the long, hard work of appropriately stewarding a space for PoC. It is our hope that, over the next year, we will see Big Bad's leadership do that work.We leave the rest of this website up for archival purposes.
We, as professionals and hobbyists in the TTRPG space, are pledging to boycott Big Bad Con 2024 in solidarity with a free Palestine. We are taking a firm stand against the normalization of genocidal views within our spaces.
Poster by Kaitlin Bruder
Poster by Krime
Why Big Bad Con?
You can read our demand letter here, including a full account of relevant correspondence and a list of current signatories.
Big Bad Con (BBC) organizers and staff are tacitly supporting Zionist ideologies. They have censored anti-Zionist language from event programming. When asked about such censorship in email correspondence, BBC organizers and staff have been unwilling to stand for anti-Zionism. Instead, they have used marginalized attendees as a shield to justify their inaction. At present, BBC organizers have expressed a desire to change, but have stopped short of taking an anti-Zionist stance. We believe that public pressure from the TTRPG space is necessary to push BBC to fully commit to anti-Zionism.
Our demands are simple. We demand that Big Bad Con:
1. Make a public values statement indicating that Big Bad Con is an anti-Zionist space. This statement cannot equivocate both sides, but rather must stand firmly for the decolonization of Palestine.2. Allow all events to include anti-Zionist language in their programming, including event descriptions.3. Commit to consulting with Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and anti-Zionist Jews within the TTRPG space to determine what actions the community would like to see from Big Bad Con in supporting them/us in 2025 and beyond.
If Big Bad Con is unwilling to meet our demands by October 1, 2024, we will boycott the convention in solidarity with a free Palestine.
Counter-events
If Big Bad Con is unwilling to meet our demands, we will run counter-events. More information will be posted in early October 2024!
Poster by Chiara Acu
