Preparing to teach a recent workshop on building an artist or author brand made me realise how much my approach to my own brand and online profile has changed over the last several years.
That feeling has been exacerbated over this last awful month, in which the social media spaces I have held in such esteem have become sites for both community making and lonely making, action and distraction, truth-telling and shadow-banning, finding and losing of trust.
It’s been a timely reminder that our online profiles are political – regardless of whether we using them to share political content or politicise our silence.
Social media platforms – like all forms of communication – are political. Having the option to engage in an issue or not is political. Having a platform – however big or small – is also a privilege, and a responsibility.
Check out my latest ‘and another thing’ vlog for more. (These vlogs are usually a Patreon exclusive, but this one’s for everybody else too).
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