Have you been keeping up with the SESTA-FOSTA situation? From what I understand just with the bill passing a lot of websites are not just cracking down on personals/sex work forums and such but any sexual content? Like this is an “i heard about this on my facebook feed” thing but but I heard amazon is starting to bury it’s erotica section? I might be freaking you out before I’ve actually gotten it and I apologize

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I’ve been talking about it a little in my previous posts, if you keep scrolling.

Amazon is supposedly restoring reviews and ratings to titles that got “mistakenly” removed from their search listings. Whether it was an actual mistake or the realization that their kdp is held up on the backs of the romance/erotica community who were being fairly vocal in their displeasure, who can say.

While it can be very scary to see these things unfolding, it’s important to not let that fear make you feel helpless. Attempts at censorship swing around every few years, which isn’t to say we should be blase about it and just let it run it’s course like a mild head cold, because that’s not actually how that works. People who dismiss changes in politics and social outlook as being only temporary downward swings, never see the work that goes on to make sure these regressions only ever remain temporary and not the accepted norm.

These legislative changes are still fairly new, and it’ll be interesting to see how things take shape. But don’t let them stop you from creating things or expressing yourself.

I know the temptation to curl inwards and pretend like you’re benign is tempting, but the only way this thing will truly win is if people let it. As is true with most things worth fighting for. Do as artists and writers have done before you, and make art. Draw the titties, write the smut, find and found new platforms that will support you and yours, rock the boat. And if you have to capsize it and drown a few mother fuckers in the process just remember, they started it.

But we get a say in how it finishes.