It’s important to remember a conference is not a space, it’s the people in that space. In a conference there are no safe spaces, only safe people. What we need

It’s important to remember a conference is not a space, it’s the people in that space. In a conference there are no safe spaces, only safe people. What we need are social structures to help keep safe people around other safe people, if that’s where they want to be. We need an effective way of calibrating a person’s safety profile. An individual for instance may be perfectly safe for a minority, but unsafe for all but the most hardened women.