Against Community Guidelines
But who’s community?
Our Thoughts and Plans Regarding Instagram’s Imminent Changes
By now most of us have at least heard a rumbling about instagram’s ever tightening policies in regards to nudity and sexuality. Doable Guys was created to be a sex-positive community celebrating the queer male form. Basically everything Instagram is against. As artists, we are adamantly opposed to censorship. For so many of us, these policy changes have left us waiting in fear. It’s difficult to say just how hard Instagram will be bringing the hammer down once the new policies are in place. Will things be noticeably different, or generally the same? One thing we all know is that IG’s community guidelines have always impacted marginalized communities much harder than the celebrity/influencer accounts. Us queer artists making our “dirty drawings” are of little concern to them. Simply put, we don’t earn them money.
As much as we at Doable Guys have tried to avoid doing so, we have leaned heavily on Instagram to increase our reach. And now, once again, there is a chance they will kick that support out from underneath us. While having a social media platform to help boost our exposure will always be helpful, we want to be as prepared as we can to thrive on our own in the event that that help is stripped away.
We are lucky enough to have our website and it is time for us to utilize it more. It is my hope to expand this blog and to make this website a haven for uncensored queer art. We want to feature more artists, new work, and have discussions about the past, present, and future of homoerotic art. And we want to hear from YOU.
Do you have a new series of work you’d like to showcase? Or some other idea or event you’d like to propose? We’d like to turn this website into a virtual gallery where everyone can gather together and take part. We have the opportunity to expand Doable Guys to all forms of homoerotic art: From fine art to photography to performance to writing. We’re looking for contributors as excited and passionate about homoerotic art as we are. For a general description of what we’re looking for, head over to our SUBMIT page now!
Moving ahead into 2021, we will experimenting to see what works, and we hope this will grow and mature over time in a way that best suits the community. We are always open to new ideas, and keeping in mind our limited resources, we are excited to incorporate those ideas as best we can!
Good luck to everyone with Instagram. To be clear, we will still be as active there as ever, for as long as we are allowed to do so, but in the event the worst should happen, be sure to bookmark this website, follow us on TWITTER and sign up for the weekly figure drawing mailing list so you don’t miss out!
Sincerely,
Your Doable Guys host, Kyle