I'm old enough to have a Buffy-themed tattoo and today's @theflytrapmedia.com reprint of a classic Bitch article is a reminder of exactly how old I am because how has it been 25 years since the iconic Willow/Tara kiss??
LOL honestly i'll take that as a badge of honor!
it's surprising how little it has happened over the years! kicking myself and trying to make up for lost time now.
who is a dumbass and lost two key interview recordings for a @theflytrapmedia.com piece? :D it was me :(
Today's FlytrapxBitch reprint is a breakdown of the first lesbian kiss in Buffy The Vampire Slayer! Read it:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/under-your-s...
“One turns to fictional horrors because there are so many horrors in reality. Where else, we ask, to put the feelings, pending revolution? A scary movie shrinks the world’s horrors down into, not manageable exactly, but bounded, feelable parcels.”— @reproutopia.bsky.social
their only unique selling point, down the drain.
so so fucked
i was going to switch to proton bc google sucks at privacy, wtf
what the actual fuck
Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.
Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.
I ran a project with over 2,000 new mums. I can tell you, the core experience of heterosexual motherhood is being being absolutely knackered all the time, and incandescently pissed off at your husband/boyfriend about the unequal distribution of parental labour.
"Anti-porn activists want you to think this is a battle to protect women from exploitation and the soul of America, but sex workers know that the real battle is their fight for autonomy, respect, and safe working conditions." @sesmith.lol
Feels like the natural endpoint of our society tbh. Was always going to go this way
they are killing human beings in ways that no human being should die
Too bad there aren't any rich people who could run ads with this information on every social media and regular media channel.
the issue with how PR people send me pitches is that "celebrity is promoting X cause" is not actually news or interesting, and I wish y'all would understand that.
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Inquiry for New York Times
Good afternoon,
My name is [REDACTED]
and l am a reporter for the
New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it.
With gratitude,
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1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]
![Palestine Diaspora Movement
Hello [REDACTED]
We do not collaborate with The New York Times.
Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours.
The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable.
So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it.
Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c6k2ozisr2bbitsafwwyistf/bafkreiai2pecvwkmynio7kasncq7p5b2wckztgny22dv4tx6x73rp3qhku)
Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team
“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”
lmaooo GET EM
im really sorry to my body and brain for working without breakfast and making myself anxious.
I don't give up on myself. Proving haters wrong is the best fuel.
We are now sharing a version of the image that we had ready on Instagram and Threads, with covered nipples, just in case this happened.
You can read the whole piece here:
What do you think? Does #FreeTheNipple still matter when our bodies and speech are being censored by Tech Bros?
In November, @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social wrote: "One can never be sure what will trigger Meta’s automatic censorship, or whether one will be able to restore one’s Facebook or Instagram account if it’s unfairly banned."
Read more:
A screenshot of a blurred and censored photo posted on The Flytrap's Instagram account, with the word VIOLATION on top.
A screenshot of a notification from Instagram/Meta that says "we removed your photo" on February 25th, 2025. The notification shows that despite appealing, Meta did not reinstate the image, alleging that the post "may contain nudity or sexual content."
In an illustration, three people of color are shown without shirts on. Their nipples are covered by yellow band aids.
A screenshot of a snippet of Chrissy Stroop's article that reads: "Bodily autonomy and opposition to gender discrimination are feminist values that are present in many of our ongoing struggles, not least for reproductive justice. They are also at the root of arguments for topless equality, making it a worthy cause, even if its pursuit seems Quixotic—for now."
Right on cue, Meta proves worker-owner @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social 's point about the puritanical misogyny of tech bros by censoring the innocuous illustration that goes with her essay on why topless equality still matters.
Free the nipple!!
HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! This week, @sesmith.lol writes about the "algorithmic violence" navigated by sex workers across platforms, how it robs SW of their time, creativity, and (most importantly) their money.
READ BELOW:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/sex-wor/
wild how commissions just... dried up in the last two weeks...
AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling.
In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.
P.S. if you like the art this week from our Art Fellow @meowwwls.bsky.social you can grab a poster here!
👀 anybody?
