Bluesky Censors P&P Queer Xine: What This Says about the Backlash
Now is the time for everyone to resist!
Cory Doctorow is a journalist, activist, and Medium writer who coined the term “enshittification” to describe how online platforms degrade in quality over time. I experience that with Amazon sometimes as I struggle to find the lowest price on goods when the platform prefers that I buy lower-quality, higher-priced goods instead.
That’s just one example of “enshittification.” Cory has literally written a book about it, if you’d like to learn more.
Even though I pay attention to Cory Doctorow’s writing, I never expected my New Year’s Eve to be ruined by the intersection of enshittification and homophobia. Or, as P&P editor Logan Silkwood put it on New Year’s Eve, I never expected to be caught up in a wave of “anticipatory obedience” to forest fires of homophobia and other forms of queerphobia raging among conservatives across the land.
(Logan was referring to a term coined by Yale historian Timothy Snyder in his book, “On Tyranny,” about the 20th-century history of fascism.)
Of course, what Logan meant by “obedience” was obedience to Donald Trump, his political allies, and his deplorable base of queerphobic voters.
