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OnlyBans at LA’s Honor Fraser until June 2024
Honor Fraser is pleased to present Erotic Codex, a group exhibition that surveys the liberatory affordances of sex, and the erotic devices that artists use to harness power in an evolving digital landscape
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Blank Tape exhibition at Brewhouse Arts
OnlyBans will be at BrewHouse in Pittsburgh as part of “Blank Tape,” curated by Lena Hansen.
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OnlyBans at LIKELIKE gallery
In August, 2023, OnlyBans was part of the NSFW show at LIKELIKE gallery in Pittsburgh.
HyperAllergic
OnlyBans Allows Users to Understand the Realities of Digital Sex Work
A new game developed by artist and sex worker Lena Chen and tech collaborator Maggie Oates helps players learn about the challenges facing online sex workers
Xtra Magazine
Just look at all the games queers have to play to express themselves on social media
Sex workers, artists, models and even casual users are cropping, blurring and emoji-ing to avoid being shadow banned—or worse
THE ITHACAN
Queer sex work exhibit educates IC students
Step into the Handwerker Gallery to explore moments in the history of queer and people of color sex work frozen in time alongside education on current social justice dilemmas — all underneath the vibrant glow of neon signs and the poppy rhythms of disco music
Neural.it
Lena Chen, Maggie Oates – OnlyBans, do you wanna play?
OnlyFans, perhaps the largest website in the world where users can post content that is not allowed elsewhere, is a successful business model for monetising the increasingly consolidated like mechanism.