Censorship - Salon de l’Empress
Salon de l’Empress
Jan 30
Patreon is live 🖤
I should have done this eons ago. After years of self-filtering, fighting flags, deboosts, weaponized moderation, straight-up censorship, and animosity in some way for my nudes on every platform, I’ve finally carved out a private space on Patreon: the Inner Sanctum. Everything I’ve held back is going there now: my full archive of nude artwork which includes glitch remixes, nude paintings, AI-work trained on my own paintings and soon to be body, the erotic stories I’ve been too nervous to writ...
Aug 29
remix it w/ no censorship (empress's edition)
In the glow of the remix's mechanics potential, where every post becomes a canvas for collective evolution, the call for 'switches' to erase unwanted layers rings hollow and stands as a shadow of systems some of us are trying to leave behind. I wholly celebrate remix as quote-tweeting on steroids, a tool that bull-runs engagement and democratizes narrative. Yet introducing deletion mechanics betrays the core promise of onchain building: resistance to censorship. What starts as a safeguard aga...
Aug 21
on censorship x my art
Today, I received a dmca notice on my livestream (dreamweirdodanceclub.live) from Kick for a video on demand, which I never asked to be saved in the first place. I reached out to them to express my upset at this stating since I can't turn off the auto-save this fundamentally violates my consent because my livestream is intended to be just that a live performance, and now I get punished for something I didn't opt into? This incident is right on the heels of soundcloud refusing to distribute my...
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