caseylorne: Tumblr has decided it no longer wants me to be part of its world. To stay would require
caseylorne: Tumblr has decided it no longer wants me to be part of its world. To stay would require I accept service terms that deem female-presenting nipples as obscene and queer art as offensive. I will not be complicit in Verizon’s “full-frontal” attack on women’s bodies, sex workers and the LGBT+ community.This blog consisted of historic tales related to works of art along with images of diverse people (perhaps naked or partly so) and contemporary photography that emphasized feminist and queer perspectives. Sometimes I tried to offer a clever pun and once came up with a slightly-successful meme about the Pythagorean theorem.That which seemed innocuous enough a year ago has now been transformed by Verizon into something dangerous. Tumblr originated with a promise to welcome people seeking companionship as they traveled paths previously unexplored. Yes, some of what these adventurers found was not safe for work, but that wasn’t the problem, not really. The ideas they encountered, and the ways they found of expressing those ideas, turned out not to be safe for corporate and socially conservative elements of the American state. That is why they are being suppressed.I have sought shelter from the storm, taken my pen and gone home. Perhaps someday a refuge will emerge where I can reestablish this blog, but on the whole I am pessimistic. In the meantime, if you wish to find me, I sometimes check email at caseylorne [at] hush [dot] com. Sending this out one more time for the evening crowd.Just to put facts on the record, here is the list of painters whose paintings (not photographs, as if that should matter), once featured on my blog, have been judged to be unpublishable on Tumblr. - Henri Matisse- Priscilla Warren Roberts- Leo Putz- Paul Cadmus- Bartholomeus van der Heist- John Koch (2)- Eleanor Davis- John Singer Sargent- Otto Mueller- Betty Dodson- Archibald John Motley- Lawton Parker- Paul Avril- Ricardo Mannelli- Lilli Hill- Joyce Polance (2)- Margarita Sikorskaia- Lucien Freud- Paul Peel- Aleah Chapin- Shakespeare JonesPerhaps some of these works would be spared from the bonfire if submitted to Tumblr for review. I believe the process is known as shoot first, ask questions later. -- source link