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How Sex Educator YouTube Went from Guiding Light to Worrisome Shadow

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 28, 2020 at 12:02pm
In 2016, YouTube was a space to learn any and everything about sex; maybe, in 2020, it simply isn’t anymore. Read more »
The TikTok logo and the words, “death becomes inescapable.”

Very Online: You Can’t Escape Death on TikTok

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 22, 2020 at 1:00am
We’re still learning what to do with death, both online and off. Read more »
meme image by Instagram user @gay_girl_inc featuring Beyoncé walking onto a yacht and Jay-Z crouching behind her

Meme and My Squad: The Teens Tagging their Way to Queer Utopia

by Peyton Dix
October 20, 2020 at 9:30am
Memes can offer familiarity, freedom, and levity in a world that, more often than not, flattens and invalidates queer experience. Read more »
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Trolling in the Deep: Deepfakes Are the Latest Innovation in Online Shaming

by Padmini Parthasarathy
October 19, 2020 at 9:40am
The deepfake is a form of public shaming. Read more »
photo of author J.K. Rowling, a white, red-haired woman in a turquoise top

Cancel Check: “Cancel Culture,” Abolition, and the Meaning of Accountability

by Nora Salem
October 14, 2020 at 1:43pm
Why can’t we recognize “canceling” as a reckoning with power and justice? Read more »
Two white gay men flirt at what looks like Pride. One has a rainbow arm band.

Denouncing White Supremacy Must Be a Movement, Not a Trend

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 9, 2020 at 2:04pm
Reclamation isn’t for everything, and it’s not for everyone. Read more »
Claudia Conway, a white teenage girl with blond hair, films herself on TikTok.

Teen Girls Shouldn’t Have to Fix Our Country

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 8, 2020 at 11:30am
We shouldn’t be making demands of Claudia Conway, especially if they aren’t demands we’ve even made of ourselves. Read more »
Three hands hold up blue makeup sponges.

Very Online: Biden Beauty and the Presidential Merch Wars

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 2, 2020 at 10:44am
Biden Beauty feels to me like less of an investment in Biden himself than the result of a nagging uncertainty. Read more »
Bella Thorne, who is thin and white, wears an orange crop top with cut outs and has bright red hair in pigtails.

The Grift List: Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans Debacle Screwed Over Sex Workers

by Erin Taylor
September 29, 2020 at 11:20am
She used OnlyFans as a playground for her celebrity voyeurism. Read more »
Ruth Bader Ginsburg wears glasses. A crown is pasted on her head. The text reads “unfortunately symbolic.”

Very Online: Distilling RBG into a Meme Warps Her Legacy

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 25, 2020 at 9:04am
In death, the memeification of Ginsburg fails her. Read more »

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