rax 🏳️‍🌈 she/அவள்/elle

entrepreneur! activist! list never ends

👀 I also just made a site for my freelance journalism and yours is making me realize I underestimated the design potential on wix free sites

this would fix me I think

Correction Commissioner Richards speaks behind a podium while Mayor Mamdani stands next to him.

Today, I made historic appointments who will lead key agencies and create a city where everyone can thrive.

I appointed Stanley Richards as Commissioner of DOC. Decades after he served time in our city’s jails, Commissioner Richards will now be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead them.

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Sex worker as in … companion, muse, philosopher, sex educator, writer, graphic designer, photographer, photo/video editor, life coach, stylist, CEO, interdisciplinary artist, guide, mirror, bookkeeper, facilitator of fun & pleasure, person who will change your life etc <3

I! love! guillotine! smut!!!! oh shonda rhimes the woman you are

An old man today asked me what the I in LGBTQIA stands for so I defined intersex for him and at first he said "oh that doesn't sound too common" then I said intersex folks are as common as redheads and he went "ah! there's redheads in my family!" Loveeeeee watching someone click in real time

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it “The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

cybersecurity bottom who needs your help with some “penetration testing”

Hey you're gonna want to get in on Violet's digital security consultations!! Sliding scale for SWs

"You can think of this service as half therapy for your relationship with technology generally, half personal trainer for your digital practices of all stripes, and half cyber-sorcery apprenticeship."

I love everything about this it's so needed!!! And you have such a way with words to describe it all too -- "protection spell" "half therapy, half personal trainer." Y e s

the energy of this feels the same to me as the reason we classify punching holes in walls as domestic violence.

Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are

-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food

Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

Thisssssss part 👆🏽👆🏽💯💯‼️‼️

While indie NSFW creators like @acvalens.com are throttled by platforms/💳/banks… sites like X profit from nonconsensual + abusive GenAI content on a *massive* scale

It was. never about 'risky' content
Its ideological

I spoke w. @raxsha.bsky.social for this great piece ft. @publicpubics.bsky.social

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😘😘

Adult creators are still getting debanked — and so are others "The line in the sand continues to shift."

"The line in the sand continues to shift...We don't know how these rules might evolve, and what type of online content might be next."

A great article on debanking by @raxsha.bsky.social ft @publicpubics.bsky.social (qtd above), @internetmaggie.com & @acvalens.com

mashable.com/article/adul...

This practice just gets even more absurd when you remember that X is not being delisted from app stores for having a massive problem with CSAM.

Apparently consensual adult sexual content is a problem though?

Yeah some of you know I survive (100%) on NSFW commissions and my biggest commissioner and I talked about this the other day

I am totally not terrified to lose my only source of income not at all

Screenshot of anonymous comment that reads "Sure hope my husband reads this. He pretends to be a 'Tech God' but he doesn't know half of this."

Getting a lot of great feedback on this new piece, but nothing will ever top the person who wrote this on my 'Top 5 Digital Security Tips From Sex Workers' article lmao (which u can read here: mashable.com/article/top-...)

It's a new year, now's a great time to start calling the PayPros because they aren't expecting to get bugged again.

More and more games are getting cancelled for Stateside releases or forced to get censored (see the Dispatch release on Switch) and with the X stuff going on, go yell about that

Thinking about this, it's been happening for a very very long time but it's getting worst -

There have been a lot of solutions led by sex workers across the globe in the book Revolting prostitutes - including worker owned credit unions, currency exchanges, it's getting harder though

“Private companies have been deputized to decide how we can earn and spend our money," says MacDonald, referring to banks, payment processors, and card networks. "Anyone who is ideologically misaligned with any of these companies faces the risk of losing their livelihood”

This is still incredibly important and still happening to people even if less people are talking about it now.

My works are still heavily impacted as someone who makes games that cover a lot of sensitive topics even if they aren't R18. (My itch acct and game are still deindexed.)

Thank you for all your advocacy around this and taking the time to tell me all about it 🙏🏽💜

My latest for @mashable.com! Ana's story led me to dig into who's behind all the censorship and financial backlash that adult content creators are facing. Lmk your thoughts 👀

Thank you to @publicpubics.bsky.social & @internetmaggie.com for your insights, and my editor @annaroseiovine.bsky.social 💕

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soooo @upscrolled.bsky.social is #1 in social networking apps rn 👀 we're getting off TikTok and Meta y'all

my username is raxcityb lmk when I can find u over there

Informed and affirming sex education is absolutely a part of the resistance/revolution!

this guy gets it

Me explaining to my girlfriend I'm just on /r/MassiveCock for the articles