Grant Krupp

Grant Krupp

The Hidden Labour of Speaking Freely Online

Social media was supposed to democratise voices, letting anyone broadcast their story to the world. But for creators from marginalised communities, that freedom comes at a price: a constant, exhausting game of self-censorship to appease a mysterious algorithm.

On a recent episode of Code Switch that I listened to, hosts B.A. Parker and Gene Demby dug into the coded language and linguistic gymnastics people deploy just to be heard. Terms like “unalive” instead of “kill”, “palm-coloured” for “white people”, or “grape” for “rape” have become commonplace. Why? Because saying the wr

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By Grant Krupp