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How Sex Educator YouTube Went from Guiding Light to Worrisome Shadow
In 2016, YouTube was a space to learn any and everything about sex; maybe, in 2020, it simply isn’t anymore.
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Very Online: You Can’t Escape Death on TikTok
We’re still learning what to do with death, both online and off.
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Meme and My Squad: The Teens Tagging their Way to Queer Utopia
Memes can offer familiarity, freedom, and levity in a world that, more often than not, flattens and invalidates queer experience.
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Trolling in the Deep: Deepfakes Are the Latest Innovation in Online Shaming
The deepfake is a form of public shaming.
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Cancel Check: “Cancel Culture,” Abolition, and the Meaning of Accountability
Why can’t we recognize “canceling” as a reckoning with power and justice?
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Denouncing White Supremacy Must Be a Movement, Not a Trend
Reclamation isn’t for everything, and it’s not for everyone.
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Teen Girls Shouldn’t Have to Fix Our Country
We shouldn’t be making demands of Claudia Conway, especially if they aren’t demands we’ve even made of ourselves.
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Very Online: Biden Beauty and the Presidential Merch Wars
Biden Beauty feels to me like less of an investment in Biden himself than the result of a nagging uncertainty.
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The Grift List: Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans Debacle Screwed Over Sex Workers
She used OnlyFans as a playground for her celebrity voyeurism.
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Very Online: Distilling RBG into a Meme Warps Her Legacy
In death, the memeification of Ginsburg fails her.
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