Joyelle D Zarif (@grand-romantic) warning/beware

Joyelle is an afab person claiming to be nonbinary who lives in Hartford Connecticut, currently works at a preschool and attends conventions like Connecticon, Anime Boston, Weeb Night and many others. They have brought weapons into conventions on more than one occasion with the threat of harming multiple trans poc despite claiming to be an ally.

In addition to being someone who enjoys conventions, she is a streamer on Twitch who scams dozens out of their money.

One of the three testimonials we've gotten that wasn't from the callout blog before this one, run by different people.

ASCA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) provides group meetings for adult victims both in-person and online, along with their own list of resources for child abuse victims

HAVOCA (Help for Adult Victims of Child Abuse) is a similar organization with a forum for survivors, support groups for victims, and resources to find a therapist

stop the silence is a department of the institute on violence, abuse, and trauma providing specialized programs related to CSA. they help fund training for professionals and trauma therapy. they take donations to help further their work.

psychology today has an online database of therapists, psychiatrists, and support groups within the US. you are able to filter by treatment modalities, what they specialize in, what insurance they take, etc.

RAINN has a phone, text, whatsapp, and online hotline for victims of rape, incest, and abuse. services are available in english and spanish.

FORGE has a free PDF of resources for trans victims of sexual violence

take it down is a service offered by the national center for missing and exploited children that helps victims of CSEM take down sexually explicit content of themselves produced before they were 18. stop NCII is a similar resource for adults.

derechos infancia - provides information on counseling & reporting CSA in mexico

Groomers groom their allies too. Predators sniff out the weakest and most damaged to be their prey. But when they find strength, they project their “safe” image. They loudly proclaim their goodness, their support for victims, their feminism. They are counting on this so that *if* they get caught, there will be a group of people who can honestly say “I can’t believe this, I never expected it from them.” Because they need you in their corner to help them discredit their victims.

Don’t beat yourself up if someone turns out to be shitty. Don’t waste a second of your energy wondering how you missed the signs. They showed you *exactly* what they wanted you to see. Their narcissistic manipulation is on THEM, not on you.

The best thing you can do moving forward is to give your strong voice and your power to the victims. Don’t apologize for what you didn’t know, don’t make it about yourself.

“Knowing what I/we know now” is a valuable phrase, use it to speak out against the predator.

even her being fucking besties with violet martin, local sexual harasser and abuser of power whos gone out of her way to stalk and harass several people of color and misgender two trans women because they didnt "pass".

She's currently still harassing one of her most famous victims, and is doing so with a VERY well known transphobe.

https://www.facebook.com/piper.zarif/

her dads, who harassed station in DMs for literal weeks unprompted

https://www.facebook.com/hakim.zarif/

and her grandmother's.

https://www.facebook.com/juanita.zarif/

also i was just kind of thinking about how she's a huge fucking liar. she picked a fight with station a few months ago on twitter about that warning post of her having a weapon? i was present during the court case about that. i said this on twitter too, but she admitted under oath in a court of law that she DID bring a taser into the convention. she continues to deny it of course, but if it was really racist slander the judge wouldve granted the harrassment order and they *didnt*. they told her to stop making the situation worse and stop engaging and to leave station alone so the situation could die down. as we can all see, she didnt do that.

holy shit @joyellezarif did you hear this shit from another VICTIM of joyelles. i remember that bc i offered to drive you both to her fucking lameass birthday that nobody showed up to.

we spoke a few times before the fight and theres pictures of us together i am NOT fucking posting after what matties little roller coaster fucking friend did but she constantly called me a man which is ://

joy loves acting like she supports trans people but will turn around and act like a niggaphile and a terf when someone is gnc in a way that confuses her. i remember station told her it wasn't going by kc and not using they and it was faggotgender and her stupid ass said "i don't support that"

literally she blames station for everything and her nappy headed victim complex ass cannot handle the idea of other people not liking her despite her having RECENT grooming allegations with proof and testimonials behind them.

idk how to post this but @joyellezarif joyelles dad has gone out of his way to message station and violently misgender it on twitter

maybe hakim should focus on his failing music career or his children hes clearly failed instead of harassing someone younger then his deadbeat big back failed twitch streamer daughter online

"LITERALLY MY LIFE" like joyelle isnt bringing weapons to conventions to make people feel unsafe and lied about it in court.

"LITERALLY MY LIFE" like she didnt send her dad whos been hitting on underage girls in his twitter replies JUST like his daughter looking up a childs skirt at a con

idk how to post this but @joyellezarif joyelles dad has gone out of his way to message station and violently misgender it on twitter

maybe hakim should focus on his failing music career or his children hes clearly failed instead of harassing someone younger then his deadbeat big back failed twitch streamer daughter online

Joyelle is an afab person claiming to be nonbinary who lives in Hartford Connecticut, currently works at a preschool and attends conventions like Connecticon, Anime Boston, Weeb Night and many others. They have brought weapons into conventions on more than one occasion with the threat of harming multiple trans poc despite claiming to be an ally.

In addition to being someone who enjoys conventions, she is a streamer on Twitch who scams dozens out of their money.

For those going to Connecticon, here's Joyelle's lineup. She's hosting the Saturday Dadadan photoshoot in case any future and current victims want to report to HART or the con itself.