Tbh, it feels stupid, like I should have known better.
I made changes to my bio that were more sexually explicit than is accepted on IG, and it cost me my account. I was so amped about it, too. I had finally claimed the title “Erotic Money Coach” and I had changed my tagline to one that had been knocking around in my brain for a few months.
My old tagline was “Feel lit the fuck up about money”. Cute, but it didn’t feel true to the work I do or the transformation my clients go through. I wanted something evocative of the deeply sexual and orgasmic nature that haunts my body of work.
It felt edgy to change my tagline to the one I had been considering. Edgy as in scary and also edgy as in rebellious. I was nervous and giddy to claim one more true facet of my being and to share it with my community.
I had never even received one single warning about my content being too suggestive.
I couldn’t boost some of my posts because of cursing, but that was ok with me.
I have seen so many of my sex-worker friends lose their accounts, be reported, be banned, and the devastating loss of years of hard work and community building.
Not only sex-workers but also sex educators, body educators, relationship and intimacy mentors, birth, postpartum, and death doulas, body-posi models and the list goes on.
There’s a meme I’m thinking of that says something like, “If you wouldn’t be burned at the stake by the church for being a witch, are you even living?”
Here’s my version: “If you’ve never been suspended from Instagram, are you even ushering in a new paradigm?”
Maybe not. Or maybe you’re just smarter than me.
So what was the dreaded, sinful new tagline?? Check it out and tell me what you think in the comments below. 👇🏼
I’m in the process of persistently appealing the decision to disable my account, so hopefully you’ll see my face again soon!