#landspeedrecord

"Land Speed ​​Record" is Hüsker Dü's debut album, released in January 1982.

It was recorded live on August 15, 1981, at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rich has a pattern of sexual assault, consent/boundary violations, emotional abuse and manipulation. This statement is based on the experiences of multiple women/nb people. He has victimized woc experiencing vulnerable or precarious life circumstances. Attempts to directly confront Rich on these matters has proven fruitless. This page will attempt to share helpful information in as clear and accessible a manner as possible.

WHO IS RICH?

Rich is from San Jose and currently lives in Chicago. He plays in Busted Outlook and Permanent Ruin.

https://www.richgutierrez.com/

http://landspeedrecord.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/_supremenothing

https://www.instagram.com/supreme_nothing/

https://www.instagram.com/Baldwins_turkish_decade/

https://www.facebook.com/SupremeNothing

http://www.supremenothingpress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/supremenothingpress/

https://mobile.twitter.com/SN_Press

https://www.facebook.com/supremenothingpress/

https://bustout.bandcamp.com/

https://permanentruin.bandcamp.com/

SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS (TW)

• Non-consensually and violently forcing oral penetration

• Restraining partners non-consensually during sex

• Removing condoms during sex without informing partners, non-consensually initiating unprotected penetrative sex

• Seeking out people who are emotionally or socially vulnerable and exploiting their trust in him - these behaviors are a form of predation that is best described as grooming* (see below)

• Positioning himself as a “victim” or as “vulnerable” in order to manipulate people he abuses into being dismissive of other people’s attempts to hold him accountable

• Gaslighting people who have attempted to hold him accountable for his abuse of them

• Enforcing power disparity in relationships by manipulating partners into being exclusive with him; while secretly having concurrent sexual relationships with other people

• Exploiting cultural access and labor from people who he has abused as well as appropriating their work/plans

• Failing to inform potential partners of his past behavior, despite being made aware of the above experiences and their impact.

* Resources on the concept of psychological grooming for people who haven’t encountered the term before:

http://outofthefog.website/top-100-trait-blog/2015/11/4/grooming

(we don’t mean to endorse everything on this website, but it is concise)

http://www.kbsolutions.com/Grooming.pdf

(starts on page 16)

WHY IS THIS JUST COMING OUT NOW?

Rich has successfully constructed an image of himself as a self aware feminist ally, especially using social media to aggressively reinforce this image. Additionally, Rich has social capital and a prominent/respected position. Finally, Rich has been shielded from the consequences of his actions by his friends, in particular [redacted]. When people who Rich has hurt have attempted to seek support from Rich’s friends, or just inform them of Rich’s actions, those friends have discredited the survivors’ experiences and intimidated them into silence.

WHO ARE WE? WHAT DO WE WANT?

This page was written collaboratively by a number of people, then passed along to others for review. We just are sharing this info at the specific request of survivors. This is not an “accountability process.” Over the years people Rich has hurt have made requests of him, and asked his friends to hold him accountable. These efforts have been futile, and only resulted in the further emotional abuse and ostracization of the survivors. We are presenting this information in the hopes of interrupting Rich’s pattern of abuse.

CONTACT

If you have questions, you can get in touch with us. If you have been hurt by Rich and want to connect with other survivors, at least one of them is actively interested in that. Please feel free to get in touch.

[email protected]

UPDATES

6/16/17 - We have been getting a lot of e-mails in response to this call out. At this point there are at least 7 women/nb people who have come forward with experiences of Rich’s abuse, coercion, assault, and intense manipulation. Additionally, many people have been e-mailing to share stories about how Rich’s pattern of behavior has been an open secret, particularly in San Jose. People describe trying to discuss Rich’s behavior and being dismissed, disbelieved, shut down. Being laughed at and made fun of by Rich’s friends is also a common theme emerging from these stories.

It’s important to note that NOBODY FEELS SAFE BEING OPEN ABOUT THIS.

Since this was initially posted, despite being publicly contrite, Rich and his friends still continue to attempt to discredit this call-out talking shit on survivors and people they suspect to be directly advocating for and supporting survivors. This has manifested as acting like survivors just have petty beef or using ableist slurs against survivors who are living with mental illnesses. Rich and his friends have also been suggesting that the potential role of white people in this process - as support or as survivors - discredits the call out itself. This is misdirection, and minimizes that Rich assaulted and preys on POC.

We read Rich’s response to this call-out. It was posted on his Facebook. We found it deeply, viscerally upsetting. It is riddled with the same manipulative maneuvers and styles that he used to abuse people. It minimized his acts of abuse. It completely erased the reality that many many people have tried to bring this to his (and his friends) attention for a long time. In his response he even uses almost direct quotes from a woman who he hurt when she confronted him about it. We are disgusted by the amount of space his response takes up, we are disgusted by the accolades and credibility he is garnering from a few people for ~courageously~ apologizing. His flamboyant remorse seems artificial and disingenuous. Rich is integrated within the restorative justice and activist communities in Chicago and The Bay Area. Because of this, he is well versed in the rhetoric of accountability. This is one of the reasons he has been able to dodge accountability for so long.

To all the people who have written in bravely entrusting us with their stories, thank you. Please be patient with us in terms of response time, we are trying to respond to these messages with the care and attention they deserve, and it’s a slow process.

Land Speed Record is the debut full-length record by Hüsker Dü, released in January 1982.

It was recorded live on August 15, 1981, at the 7th Street Entry, a venue in Minneapolis, Minnesota