So we’ve taken the leap to a new platform. Now what?

If you know me from instagram - Hi! Thanks so much for being curious enough about the things I do to follow me here. I’m keen to get away from all things Meta, and having my work tied to instagram has made me all sorts of anxious over the last few months (perhaps, years?)

I’m not going to talk about all the reasons why instagram has become a nightmare of a platform, especially to be creative, queer, trans on etc etc - I think we all know very well why. It has felt limiting for some time now, and having tangoed many times with the dreaded Shadowban, I worry that if I don’t start creating alternative spaces for my work and creativity to exist online, it will soon disappear.

When trying to find the boundaries of what feels appropriate to share online, one is destined to face some hiccups.

I’ve been saying that “sitting in discomfort” is “in” for 2025, and baby, I feel it. I am feeling the discomfort. I am sitting in it. I am all too familiar with it.

I don’t know what I’m doing, and it’s uncomfortable. But I’m trying.

I think I’ve always been a bit of a natural oversharer, and it’s taken me a long time to find a balance of what I’m comfortable with and what feels appropriate, when it comes to sharing online. My work being on instagram, and instagram being, by definition, a social media platform, has meant that sometimes sharing only pictures of tattoos and “my books are open” in various different ways has at times felt cold, whilst revealing my face, details about my life, or who I am as a person, has also quickly become too intimate - meaning a weird opening and retreating ensues - and I never know if I get it quite right.

My hopes are that a different platform such as this one, with posts in a different format, and perhaps a more curated, yet simultaneously relaxed approach, might allow for room to breathe, and grow. Opening the door to creativity in different forms, allowing me to share parts of myself through the various mediums I use, that can’t really be accessed over instagram.

Basically, sharing myself and my work in a way that feels less… focused on me, in the way instagram encourages us to.

For now, the instagram account will continue to live on - to maintain bookings, online traffic, glimpses of creations, and whatever else it’s good for - meanwhile this space will allow for a moment to pause, read, ponder, and look at the fuller picture.

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