Everything (nice) people have ever said about me, in the press, online and on the airwaves.
Highlights
Research
- A feminist internet would be better for everyone – MIT Tech Review
- Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks? – The Observer
- Instagram keeps banning sex-positive and kink accounts – Dazed
- Instagram Is Removing Sex-Positive Accounts Without Warning – Wired
- What if the internet was run by women? – BBC Future
- This pole dancer is challenging censorship on social media with her research – Brut Media
- Shock horror: AI is over-sexualising and censoring women’s bodies – Cosmopolitan UK
- Comment Meta est devenu le symbole de la censure du corps féminin en ligne – Le Monde
- How to Start Fixing Social Media – OneZero
- Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram – Wired
- After six days, Instagram reverses its ban on dozens of kink and sex-positive creators – Fast Company
- Tackling the impossible problem of content moderation – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
- Who shouldn’t get verified on Instagram – Mashable
- Twitter rival Bluesky has a nudes problem – Wired
- ‘What Does Seggs Mean?’ The Rise of Sex Euphemisms on Social Media – Vice
- TikTok announced new tools to address the ‘unkind’ comments that plague the platform, but an online researcher says the changes don’t address core problems – Insider
- Adult content creators in the lurch as OnlyFans bans porn – Politico EU
- Facebook’s free speech myth is dead – and regulators should take notice – The Conversation
- Facebook versus the BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong – British Medical Journal
- Close Friends isn’t as close as you may think – Mashable
- Content moderation experts: Elon Musk is going about policing hate speech on Twitter all wrong – FastCompany
- The rise of the meta ‘fake celebrity’ on TikTok – Dazed
- TikTok’s Boob-Flashing Trend Is A Content Moderation Nightmare – BuzzFeed News
- All Porn Is Exploitation, UK Inquiry Concludes Without Speaking to Any Sex Workers – Vice World News
- Young landlord TikTok is here and it’s truly as grim as it sounds – I-D
- Transgender TikTok creators say the app’s mysterious ‘For You’ page is a breeding ground for transphobia and targeted harassment – Insider
- Instagram, nudes and Tommy Lee: Why the feminist shadow-banning fight is far from over – The i
- TikTok thinks periods are icky – Input
- Instagram users warned to ‘be careful’ when posting racy pics to Close Friends list – The Daily Star
- TikTok Has an Incel Problem – Vice World News
- Sensual ASMR has boomed on YouTube — but creators are facing a crackdown – The Verge
- Parler should be taken seriously as a hotbed of extremism and conspiracy theories, a new study shows – Insider
- Sex Workers, Performers Invited to Participate in Platform Discrimination Study – XBIZ
- Is TikTok Censoring Pro-Abortion Content? – Refinery29
- RuPaul’s Drag Race is inventing a whole new internet subculture and language – The Conversation
- Will Twitter Really Be Next to Purge NSFW Content? – Lustery POV
- Inside the murky world of social media moderation – The Skinny
- Amber Heard, others blast Instagram for inaction on abusive DMs – Input
- Gli strip club aumentano la violenza sulle donne?! Questo è assurdo e vi spieghiamo perché – Cosmopolitan Italia
- The UK’s porn age verification plan is a terrible idea – Mashable UK
- Expert Talk: Die Pole-Tänzerin, die an sich selber über Online-Zensur forscht – wmn.de
- Censorship vs Moderation: talks with Dr Carolina Are – Voice Mag
- Why Gen Z loves ugly selfies- Mashable
- A guide to shadowbanning – Charity Digital
- Will Meta Finally Lift Its Female Nipple Ban? – Hyperallergenic
- Why Meta freeing the nipple would be good for advertisers – The Drum
- Censored – Gashtrays Newsletter
- Um céu azul pelo pássaro azul? A Bluesky quer competir com o Twitter, mas ainda é “mais pequena do que muitas cidades” – Observador
- Ora gli utenti di Instagram possono verificare se i propri post vengono nascosti – Giornalettismo
- The ‘Mommy Goddess’ and the Mass Reporting of Sex Workers on Instagram – Jezebel
- Instagram continua ad avere problemi a gestire i contenuti sessualmente espliciti – Il Post
- Sex educators are hitting back at Instagram following bans – Cosmopolitan UK
- How sex workers are fighting back against online deplatforming – Huck Magazine
- Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business – Fast Company
- ‘Deletion has broken us’: how London’s kink scene is taking on Meta – Evening Standard
- What exactly is sex workers’ beef with Meta? – I-D
- Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok – NBC News
- Is Instagram shadowbanning LGBTQ and sex ed accounts? – Mashable
- I Watched Porn In A Room Full Of People. Here’s What I Learnt – Huffington Post UK
- Instagram e gli “shadow ban” su Israele e Palestina – Il Post
- Sexicon: The new language of sex – Sensuali
- Speaking Freely: Dr Carolina Are – Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooding the internet highlight a major problem with generative AI – Fast Company
- The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable – TechCrunch
- The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable – Yahoo! News
- Facebook at 20: Former staff lift lid on what Zuckerberg got right… and wrong – The i Paper
- Inside the deep, dark world of influencer gossip forums – Mashable
- Dans le monde profond et sombre des forums de potins d’influenceurs – Indigo Buzz France
- TikTokers are enthusiastically joining the app’s call to wage war on Congress over a potential ban – Business Insider
- Meta’s push to build one AI model to power videos across platforms could be an oversight nightmare, experts warn – FastCompany
- The likeless future of social media – Digital Frontier
- Is X trying to compete with OnlyFans? – Fast Company
- Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press – New Scientist
- The internet’s sex problem – Digital Frontier
- Telegram is at the center of the far-right riots in the U.K. – Fast Company
- “A TikTokified Idea Of Beauty” – The Truth About Looksmaxxing, The Extreme Makeover Trend On The Rise – Service95
- A look back at Kamala Harris’s yearslong crusade against online sex work – Fast Company
- A Tinder már unalmas – milliók találják meg társukat ezeken a hobbiapplikációkon – Marie Claire Hungary
- Elon Musk’s next move could make the worst parts of X even worse – The i paper
- The EU has helped us understand exactly how horny people are – Fast Company
- Social media algorithms can change your views in just a single day – New Scientist
- Social media influencer is a growing career choice. Colleges have noticed – The Hill
- The year of maxxing: How self-optimisation obsession peaked in 2024 – Dazed
- This tiny design tweak made YouTube a more palatable place for women creators – Fast Company
- Zwischen Regulation und Resignation: Verlassen wir 2025 die sozialen Medien? – Tagesspiegel
- Your Instagram and Facebook feeds are about to become a lot more like X – The i Paper
- Meta allowed pornographic ads that break its content moderation rules – New Scientist
- Academic researchers are going to have to learn algospeak – Fast Company
- Are you shadowbanned? The FTC wants to hear from you – Mashable
- The UK is attempting to pry open a notorious data ‘backdoor’—here’s why that’s alarming for artists – The Art Newspaper
- The age of being ‘very online’ is over. Here’s why. – Mashable
- Cringe! How millennials became uncool – The Guardian
- The OnlyFans creator mansion that’s dividing the internet – Mashable
- Have social media platforms rolled back the promises they made after George Floyd’s death? – Fast Company
- Why TikTok’s For You page isn’t a safe space for women – Mashable
Online censorship
- Celebrity photographer Rankin unveils exhibition featuring images that have been ‘unfairly’ censored on social media – The Daily Mail
- Pole dancing instructor and trans activist say Instagram censored their posts while failing to act on racism – The i
- Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars? – The BBC (also in Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish etc.)
- Instagram’s CEO Says Shadow Banning ‘Is Not A Thing.’ That’s Not True – The Huffington Post
- Meet the Unseen: The project re-platforming creators who have been censored on Instagram – Hunger
- Instagram apologizes to pole dancers after hiding their posts – CTV News Canada
- Everything is romantic: meet the agency battling erotic censorship online – Gay Times
- The Future of Porn Is on Indie Social Media – OneZero
- Influencers abandon TikTok Shop in latest blow to UK e-commerce venture – Financial Times
- Pole dancer says Instagram is censoring ‘dirty and inappropriate’ photos: Our community is ‘under attack’ – Yahoo! Life
- Instagram Apologized To Canadian Pole Dancers For Reportedly Blocking Their Content – Narcity
- Unfair Instagram moderation of women’s bodies highlighted in a new exhibit – The Daily Dot
- L’ennesima trovata di Instagram per punire sex worker, artisti e attivisti – Wired Italia
- 1,300 adult performers accuse Instagram of unfairly deleting their accounts – The Next Web
- Instagram’s Shadow Ban On Vaguely ‘Inappropriate’ Content Is Plainly Sexist – The Huffington Post
- TikTok influencers say they’re leaving its UK shopping platform over lack of payment and poor-quality products – The i
- Check out an online art exhibit of the censored and shadowbanned – Input
- TikTok Embraces The Dark Side to Shadow Ban Pole Dancers – ynotcam.com
- Rankin Creative & Quantus Gallery launch exhibition spotlighting unfair censorship – London Daily News
- Rankin Creative Launches Exhibition to Platform Those Unfairly Censored on Social Media – Little Black Book
Pole dancing
- The case for pole dancing in the Olympics – Vox
- ‘Fitness’, culos e historias de Instagram: así se sexualiza el deporte en redes sociales – El Pais
- Pole Dancing’s Heritage Deserves To Be Respected, Not Sanitised – Glorious Sport
- A RATHER BADASS HEAVY METAL POLE WORKSHOP WITH BLOGGER ON POLE! – ChromeChronicles
- Your first pole dancing class: what to expect and how to prepare – Pole Junkie
- Jennifer Lopez, 50, praised by professional pole dancers after she shows off moves in new video – Yahoo! Life
- Women reveal surprising ways pole dancing has changed their lives – Daily Star
- Pole dancing taught me to love and value myself – MetroUK
- ‘I’m starting 2020 fitter & sexier with a dancing pole installed in my home’ – The Sun
- Is pole dance suddenly so inappropriate that it should be banned on social media? – PoledancerKA
- BLACKSTAGE TALKS: Breaking Moulds – London Daily News
- ‘Blackstage Talks: Breaking Moulds’: in-person event at The Common Press to discuss issues facing the pole dancing industry and how to do better as a community – Scene
Profile pieces
- Criminologa, scrittrice, pole dancer: 50 sfumature di un’italiana – La Repubblica
- Sister Meets…Blogger On Pole – Sister Magazine
- Storia di Carolina: da Olbia a Londra tra criminologia e pole dance – Olbia.it
- “#PoleDancer #WAP – With a #PhD”: On the topic of Dr. Carolina Are and combining smart with sexy – Love at First Spin
Podcasts and radio
Should we ban certain pornography sites? – Newstalk Ireland
TV, Video Interviews and Vlogs
