Isn't Onta that dude that was like "Social Justice/PC has gone too far!" when someone asked them about the use of the term "traps" in porn comics? Maybe I'm mistaking them for someone else?

I haven’t seen him say that but I’ve talked to him about that sort of thing. I personally think that porn work requires a different critical approach than non porn work. I wouldn’t want to tell someone what fantasy they find personally turns them on is wrong, but everything published is of course up for criticism. It also sounds like you’re referring to things he’s said outside of his work, and yeahhhhhh, personally I try to use respectful terms (or ask what the people I’m speaking to prefer) in referring to a group that I am not part of.

I talked to a couple trans women about Onta’s work, after I saw people people calling it transphobic.

(although Onta’s work in Island is about gay men and not trans women)

The women I talked to were not huge fans of his content – one woman pointed out his idealized bodies – the same way that a lot of porn has an unrealistic standard for cis women’s bodies - bodies that exists as sex objects.

I was talking to Avee Bee (who runs the excellent ZEAL) about the idea of her writing an article for Island about her experience as a trans lady reading work like Onta’s and other comics.

I don’t expect to agree with everyone whose work I publish, but I think that an ongoing discussion is important, and criticism is important.