Get my latest articles in your inbox by subscribing to my Substack As someone with a background in the tech industry, I regularly field a lot of privacy & security questions from other sex workers. Lately, one subject that’s come up with repeated urgency is about avoiding facial recognition. The same technology that unlocks our...
Buckle up, babes: it’s time for this quarter’s tech rant. Today’s subject is digital security, aka how to not get hacked. Grab some coffee and set aside an hour, because this one is interactive. As sex workers, we’re targeted by scammers, hackers, and vindictive clients more often than our vanilla counterparts. When our accounts are...
If you’ve ever DMed a sex worker on social media, there’s a non-zero chance that you were actually speaking with an impersonator. It’s not your fault: many of us are search suggest banned, so when you try to find us, you see a list of convincing fakes instead of our real accounts. Impersonators suck. They...
I want to say I did hot things this weekend but I really spent most of it sitting in bed drinking coffee & reading the latest Becky Chambers novel. She’s a queer sci-fi author and a Hugo award winner (one of the highest awards for science fiction). I love her work because her extrapolation focuses...
This article is adapted from a talk given by Mistress Fae at an event for NYC sex workers and kink professionals in spring 2021, and was published in the print edition of Petit Mort Magazine in Fall 2021. What is SEO, and why should I care? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, the process of...
THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE PRINT EDITION OF PETIT MORT MAGAZINE, VOL 2 (SUMMER 2021). 1. “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance.” The last time Instagram changed their terms of use, I muttered this quote to myself repeatedly. These words have become a mantra, a thin salve over a wound...