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Posted on April 15, 2019 April 12, 2019

The Tweets Of A Whore: Persona And Privacy In The Age Of Social Media

Tina Horn
Written by
Tina Horn
Posted in
Lust+Liaisons, Society+Politics
Tagged
ethics-of-social-media, internet-culture, porn, porn-personas, pornstar, sex, sex work, society-politics

Digital communication has always seemed like the opposite of sex to me. Read more

Posted on January 14, 2019 January 11, 2019

A Portrait Of The Self As Self

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Written by
July Westhale
Posted in
Brain+Body, members-only
Tagged
art, family, grief, internet-culture, memoir

It’s challenging, isn’t it? The way we come face-to-face with the things we’d like to leave in the last calendar year, the things we expect ourselves to be able to cleanly cut away from just because we scrawled that we would in 2019? Read more

Posted on October 10, 2017 September 25, 2018

Our Usernames, Ourselves: How Anonymity Shaped The Internet (And Me)

The Establishment
Written by
The Establishment
Posted in
Society+Politics
Tagged
Growing Up, internet-culture, online-abuse

At 8 years old, my birth name was the furthest thing from my mind. Here I was, given the God-like power of choosing my identity. It was a special kind of mask.
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