Hello.

My name is Noah Sanders and I'm the host and curator of the reading series The Racket.

On the evening of the 26th of March, in an attempt to continue the mission of The Racket while we are all sheltered-at-home, we hosted a virtual event - The Racket 40 : LIGHT - featuring eight readers sharing their writing. As soon as we opened the "doors" at 7PM a group of individuals infiltrated the online space, took over the screen and the audio and started sharing/saying truly offensive things about our readers and those who had come to the event. I was, at the time, away from the screen trying to get myself organized for the event and by the time I returned to the screen what they are now referring to as "zoom bombing" had been going on unchecked for several minutes. Horrible things were said and shown. I reacted as quickly as I could to remove all of the offending parties from the room and regain control. I then made the decision to continue on with the event.