When I first posted about FOSTA/SESTA, I posted about it with a nude. Despite the fact that a nude is more likely to be deleted on Instagram––and my body comes as a direct threat to the permanence of my words––nudes also gain more traction, and this was an important message. Also, sometimes the more serious a topic is, the more it is filled with logic or legal jargon, the more I like to show my naked self beside it; not as a distraction but to say: here, I can be both at once, and my body that you may sexualise does not limit or undercut my voice, they can coexist.

The important message I wanted people to read was about the implications and repercussions of two acts that looked like they were going to pass the senate in the United States. FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act) would allow prosecutors and state attorneys to sue any American website that hosted ads and content relating to the sex trade. Using sex trafficking as the premise, this would ultimately lead to the outlawing of anything related to sex work, and to the censorship of sex workers. A bunch of celebrities had promoted it, for example Amy Schumer, all of whom had no experience or knowledge of the sex industry. This always happens when the words ‘sex trafficking’ are used, it seems to draw the well-meaning and ignorant to it like moths to a flame. (Who then, unfortunately, don’t sizzle away but instead fan and obscure actual information.)