I've gained a few new followers recently so here's a quick (re)introduction:
Hi, I'm Quinn Rhodes! I'm a freelance journalist, sex writer, and Professional Transsexual. I've been writing about sex for six years, and my work aims to change how people think and talk about intimacy.
I also write a LOT about gender as I figure out what I want my own masculinity to look like. If you're interested in nuanced writing about transness, you should check out my newsletter: https://www.genderbent.co.uk/
I’m so exhausted from the transphobic clusterfuck of the last two weeks, but wearing this outfit makes me feel so powerful. It’s a tiny act of resistance, to pull on a soft, comfortable outfit that makes me feel so confident in myself and my trans masculinity. This outfit feels like armour.
Trans lives do not exist for your shitty opinion piece. We are human, no matter how much some people try to pretend otherwise, and a world without us has never and will never exist.
"Many writers genuinely seeking to build independent media careers have become unwitting participants in a system that undermines the very independence they’re pursuing. They’re building audiences on borrowed land, subject to algorithmic whims and platform policies they cannot directly influence, while helping to subsidize the infrastructure that promotes their ideological opponents."
Answering the question: why Substack is nudging you to follow your ex?
https://www.esckey.co/why-substack-is-nudging-you-to-follow-your-ex/
#Substack
"Yes, users have technically consented. But it’s hardly informed consent when nobody realizes what, exactly, they’re consenting to — and in its actions, the platform reveals what it hopes to become."
This quote made me think of @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk, who is very much the reason I apply 'it's not meaningful consent if you don't know what you're consenting to or how to opt out' to tech as well as sex.
https://www.esckey.co/why-substack-is-nudging-you-to-follow-your-ex/
#Substack #Writing #Newsletter
"Many writers genuinely seeking to build independent media careers have become unwitting participants in a system that undermines the very independence they’re pursuing. They’re building audiences on borrowed land, subject to algorithmic whims and platform policies they cannot directly influence, while helping to subsidize the infrastructure that promotes their ideological opponents."
Answering the question: why Substack is nudging you to follow your ex?
https://www.esckey.co/why-substack-is-nudging-you-to-follow-your-ex/
#Substack
I've gained a few new followers recently so here's a quick (re)introduction:
Hi, I'm Quinn Rhodes! I'm a freelance journalist, sex writer, and Professional Transsexual. I've been writing about sex for six years, and my work aims to change how people think and talk about intimacy.
I also write a LOT about gender as I figure out what I want my own masculinity to look like. If you're interested in nuanced writing about transness, you should check out my newsletter: https://www.genderbent.co.uk/
I’m so exhausted from the transphobic clusterfuck of the last two weeks, but wearing this outfit makes me feel so powerful. It’s a tiny act of resistance, to pull on a soft, comfortable outfit that makes me feel so confident in myself and my trans masculinity. This outfit feels like armour.
Trans lives do not exist for your shitty opinion piece. We are human, no matter how much some people try to pretend otherwise, and a world without us has never and will never exist.
Quinn Rhodes (he/him)