Sex workers are the unlikely beneficiaries of Twitter Blue
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Against the Couple-Form | LIES Journal
Libidinal flows cut through the social world. Amorous and sexual relations do not exist in some domain safely taped off from the rest of society. Rather they are constituent elements of nearly every aspect of social life. Desire flows and circulates amongst places of employment, intellectual debates, political organizing, artistic circles, playgrounds, and cemeteries. The elderly patient grabs at the breast of a nurse hunched over him. A governmental official strips his newly hired intern down to her leopard print thong during an important briefing in his office. The incarcerated man holds his hand up to the glass of the visiting booth, attempting to touch his wife after twenty years of their bodily separation. These flows of libidinal desire operate within and amongst broader social mechanisms, such that they help animate the dynamics of economic and political life. Often a locus of politics, desire permeates the so-called ‘public’ terrain.
Gender Performativity | The Paper Pilot
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For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter | TechCrunch
If Bluesky wants to be a genuine rival to Twitter, it needs to protect sex workers and its Black community.
Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward | TechCrunch
For some online creators, Twitter Blue features like text-based 2FA and longer video uploads are essential -- even if they don't support Musk.
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Revolutionizing Sex Work? The Growth of OnlyFans Within a Hostile Working Environment - Berkeley Political Review
In early August of 2020, actress and child-star Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans account captured the attention of many young adults when she posted a highly edited Instagram video, in which she revealed that she would be selling her nude photos for roughly $200 each. While she received thousands of orders, buyers never acquired the promised photos. […]
Why Open-Source Needs More Feminism | Built In
In open source, as in life, hidden labor goes unrewarded.
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Sex Workers Say They’re Being Silenced by the Government on Age Verification Plans
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