Neil Gaiman is now listed as "Alumni" on UNHCR's website. He was previously a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. www.unhcr.org/prominent-su...

[ wearily, hopefully tapping the sign ] #rapeculture#neilgaiman#hierarchy#classism#VIPitis#hypocrisy#progressnotpurity#askingforaccountability

As Shakti says, it's not the responsibility of the victims, but if you want to know what the experts say, I'd start with Judith Herman's Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

The Neil Gaiman article on Wikipedia previously only had very minor details about the sexual assault allegations. Since the New York Times article came out they've been updated and then further corrected today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ga... Under "personal life"

Happy 6-year anniversary to the tweet below. Around this same time period, I was ending friendships with dozens of people I loved over their mindless, unquestioning loyalty to Neil Gaiman. Imagine what it must have felt like have survived violent SA at his hands and read this performative trash:

Wikipedia's section on the Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations has recently been expanded. Previously, only Julia Hobsbawm's account was described in any detail.

both sincere *and* have the potential to use a very intense charm abusively. in particular she noted a kind of manipulative empathy, a 'both of us are in this together' used on people when he was actually in the driving seat.

And, she said, he was extremely nice, unlike many famous authors very un-braggy - she had no idea who he was, other than a fellow author - and had clearly noticed she was feeling awkward and gone out of his way to talk to her. But listening to the podcast, she had felt how those qualities could be

I had an interesting conversation with my stepmum, a non-fiction writer, who had just listened to the whole of the Tortoise series on Neil Gaiman, about him. She recounted meeting him at a literary festival 20 years ago, where she was feeling left out at a party where she didn't know anyone ...

I asked the SoA and they said they could confirm: “that Neil Gaiman volunteered to temporarily step down as a Fellow of the Society of Authors on 25 September 2024