whisper networks

Noun

whisper network (plural whisper networks)

1. Any informal network of people who share information or gossip.
   • There is a whisper network in Bisbee, of codes and messages telling weary crossers where they can stay, safely hidden from the border patrol.2001 June 11, Nancy Gibbs, “A Whole New World Along the U.S.-Mexican border, where hearts and minds and money and culture merge, the Century of the Americas is born”, in Time, →ISSN, retrieved 10 Nov...
2. An informal network of women privately sharing information, typically of people alleged to be sexual harassers, abusers, or rapists.
   • Bluntly: the Loon is part of the whisper network, because there are a very few librarians and library technologists whose behavior in the Loon’s presence does not incline the Loon to trust them to treat a young, conventionally-attractive female professional like a human being rather than an object...2014 January 1, The Library Loon, “In which the Loon endorses anti-harassment codes of conduct”, in Gavia Libraria, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2015