Rose Sinclair's Blog, page 6
September 18, 2020
How V for Vendetta sells the lie of white innocence, and how it destroys it.
I used to have friends who would watch V for Vendetta religiously. The movie would be queued in the evening so lines of “It’s November 4th” “…Not anymore.” would hit exactly as the real day turned over to be the 5th.
It’s important to remember this movie originally came out in 2006. I was 16 at the time. Assumed myself to be nothing besides American. Had no understanding of queerness, or cultural heritage, nothing besides “I’m live in America, so I’m defined by being American.” This is someth...
August 14, 2020
The One Instagram Trick That Works! (and other things I learned)
Three weeks ago, I wrote about how I got an Instagram account that had existing followers and what I learned in that process. Sad to report it’s now down even more followers, but hey, I love learning stuff.
Today I want to talk about an Instagram trick that works! Forming a pod! No, not like dolphins. Well, maybe actually. An Instagram pod is a group of people who are in an chat together and you send a message to the group when you post something new and they like and comment on the post.
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August 7, 2020
August’s Great Ace Club’s Book
It is a mystery! No, really. This month is a detective story, from not one, but two featured authors. Please welcome Katey Hawthorne and Jenna Rose. They are authors of Kanaan and Tilney Investigations. The third book in the series will be released Aug 28th, and to celebrate we are working together to give you the first ebook in the series!
About The Case of the Arms Dealers :
John Tilney—praeternatural pyrokinetic and mystery author—has noticed the bottom dropping out of the market for hi...
July 31, 2020
#GiveItBack – The History of GLAAD saying “A is for-” and #WeGotYourBack
To save the history of disability friendly online activism, one must recap it. So this is about the blog’s 2015′s #GiveItBack campaign and how cool @glaad was about it, and how they continue to really show the fuck up lol
The earliest post I can find is from 2003 debating if aces wanted to add an A letter to the English speaking alphabet soup that is the common acronym. It’s been a long standing question however. There’s always been thoughtless reasons, and thoughtful reasons why A could be ...
Aren’t You GLAAD? – The History of “A is for-” & #GiveItBack
I was recently reminded that if want the history of disabled friendly online activism remembered I actually gotta recap it. So this is about the blog’s 2015′s #GiveItBack campaign and how cool @glaad was about it, and how they continue to really show the fuck up lol
The earliest post I can find is from 2003, and it shows that debating if we (as aces) wanted to add an A letter to the English speaking alphabet soup that is was and is the acronym has been a thing for at least then if not before...
July 26, 2020
I brought an Instagram account here’s what happened next.
People like to wholesale blame social media for the ills in the world, but having a formal education in IT, I look at these platforms as the separate systems that they are. Recently, I’ve talked about twitter, and tumblr, and in the past facebook. Let’s look at Instagram today.
It’s an interesting platform because it’s the only platform that only allows you to link to things if you are a business with over 10,000 followers. I think there’s a lot you could say about instagram’s business model...
July 24, 2020
How Acephobia in Fandoms Spread Ace Terminology
Truly one of the funniest moments in a fandom for me was in 2016 when Ubisoft posted under a long tumblr post debating Jacob Frye’s sexuality this simple message:
It was after witnessing a post on tumblr where a straight woman showed off her emails to and from a random Ubisoft staff member demanding that Jacob Fray be declared straight. It’s also among the best usages of an official platform using it to protect bisexuals and end biphobia.
But there’s more to this story. The woman w...
July 17, 2020
The blue canary in the coal mine
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and the activism that takes place on it. Largely on twitter, but similar could be said about Facebook and Instagram, and the general “Headlines Only” absorption of news and the increasing polarity of people.
But let’s focus on twitter. In college, I gave a speech about how activists during the Arab Spring used twitter to effectively organize and fight back. And as a disabled person, digital activism allows me to participate in ways inaccessible befo...
July 10, 2020
The erasure of “tumblr aces”
People don’t like listening to my commentary when I attach ‘potty mouth words’ to them so I’m just rewriting it here. This post is a reference to another that said tumblr doesn’t have a “celebrity class” yet it reach on culture is equal to that.
The erasure and vilification of “tumblr aces” “A is for Asexual, Aromantic and Agender” was not common until “a bunch of tumblr aces” told GLAAD that one of their campaigns would harm our communities.
GLAAD agreed.
Maybe it’s just beca...
July 3, 2020
Looking back at the 10 Year Anniversary of the Asexual Flag!
A few days ago, on June 30th the asexual flag hit it’s 10 year anniversary. It was made by community polling and design scouring then more rounds of discussion on AVEN. Not by, on the website in a really collaborative way. You can see a more complete history collected by Asexuality Archive which comes into more detail about why the flag is the way it is.
You also my or my not know each stripe was given a meaning.
Black: AsexualityGrey: Grey-Asexuality and Demisexuality*White: Non-ase...
