Queer Women Used Tumblr to Explore Sexuality. Now Itโ€™s Over.

brosandprose:

โ€œGenerally, Tumblr allows users to create blogs, share content they like (typically images or text posts), and build communities around subjects that matter most to them โ€” from fandoms to health and fitness to sexual preferences. The ease at which users can anonymously collect, curate, and experience the things that turn them on has led Tumblr to become a safe place for queer women to explore their sexuality, often for the very first time. Searching tags like โ€œsoftcoreโ€ or โ€œfingeringโ€ would yield ย pages of porn GIFs, sensual black and white images, videos, erotic fiction, fanart, and more. And while thereโ€™s plenty of porn on the internet, the adult content on Tumblr was often sensual and intimate, focused more on desire โ€” a radical shift from whatโ€™s typically available on explicit porn sites like PornHub. Though made-for-women porn sites exist and are growing in number, many are membership-based or have inhibiting pay walls. Tumblr quickly became the place where women could easily explore what turns them on and discover sexual content that didnโ€™t feel alienating or degrading.โ€

Super proud of my friend Julia for this piece she wrote for OUT about what Tumblr means to queer women.

Queer Women Used Tumblr to Explore Sexuality. Now Itโ€™s Over.

Where to find me

naidje:

So, this place is pretty much dead in the water. Iโ€™m not gonna delete, but itโ€™s likely that tumblr is going to stop being a usable platform in the near future. So if people want to keep in touch with me, here are some of the places you can find me.

Iโ€™m naidje on pillowfort, and this is likely the platform Iโ€™m going to be most active on when this place goes

Iโ€™m @flyerbutt on twitter

Iโ€™mย @naidje@lgbt.io on mastodon

Iโ€™m flyerbutt on instagram

Iโ€™mย Naidje#8152 on discord

Iโ€™m on facebook too

sloppydraws:

sloppydraws:

ok so shit is going down, thanks tumblr !! appreciate it

https://twitter.com/sloppydrawsย <โ€”โ€”โ€” FOLLOW ME HERE. its currently a mess of personal posts and art, but i might have to make a Strictly Art account later. but follow me there for now. :T

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sloppydraws/ย 

hereโ€™s my furaffinity too! i forgot to link it! i dont post absolutely everything i draw there like i do on twitter (like lil doodles and sketches), and i dont check it a lot outside of posting my art. but i do use it! go give it a watch~