Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of MRADA Ask. This is the solo episode we do on Thursdays where I pose a question and investigate it.

Today we are talking about only fans. Last week we had Iggy Azalea on the podcast and she just made it only fans and she was talking about it in a really interesting way, a fascinating way for me where she was talking about basically taking control over cutting out what she felt was the middle man and being able to charge for content and basically commodifying her body on her own terms.

And that only fans has been this platform where she's been able to do that. So got a lot of people talking and then I pose the question on my Instagram and on TikTok and basically asked all of you to call in, go to hylo.fm, give send in audio notes if you're somebody who uses only fans or just have thoughts in general.

And this is like not the first time we've obviously talked about commodification of body and of image, something that's come up with kind of all of my fem presenting guests I would say, but I think that this Iggy conversation particularly around only fans really fascinated me.

She basically said at one point that in the past she has been the last person to profit from her body and that she's gotten the smallest cut and that this is a way to to reclaim and have control and to make some cash while doing it.

So I want to get into this. There's a lot of amazing amazing thoughts that you all submitted that I think are just going to start a really great conversation about sort of the pros and cons of only fans because I'm also thinking about starting one.

So I'm essentially asking questions, should I start in only fans and we're going to get into a lot about how women are sexualized anyway about the question of whether or not this is feminism.

I personally don't think it is, but we'll talk about that. We'll talk about this in an intersectional way and talking about women who are white and in small bodies and how that is different for them than other fem presenting people.

I also want to talk about the taboo of only fans and then we're also going to talk about what it means to be a celebrity going on the platform for sex workers.

And we're going to end on that note because I want more feedback on that, but let's get into it. I'm very excited about this episode today.

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Okay, so first I want to start with a personal anecdote. If you've read my book, then you know that I was a part of the iCloud hack that happened in I think it was 2014 where Jennifer Lawrence Kim Kardashian Rihanna tons and tons of celebrities had their eye clouds hacked and personal photos were leaked.

It was one of the most traumatizing experiences of my life. I lost a patch of hair the week it happened. I thought my career was over. It was at a point where I really wanted to be a serious actress and everyone was telling me that, you know, I'd been photographed naked so much and that it was going to be hard for people to take me seriously.

And there was a lot of kind of conversation that these photos had been leaked intentionally a lot of slut shaming and they were extremely intimate photos. They were intended for someone that I was in love with and it was horrible.

I can't tell you. And if you've also read my book, this is not my only experience with losing control or power over my image and my body.

I've had books, a photos of me sold without consent. I've had people profit off of my image, usually men. And I've gotten no cut of it. And actually a lot of the times it's cost me money to either, for example, with the iCloud hack hire a lawyer to hire a tech company to try to clean the internet of them.

To at one point I bought an art piece that was made of me by Richard Prince that cost me money. The lawyers fees I had to take on when I went after the photographer who had an art show and published a book of my photos without my consent paparazzi who I do not consent to taking my picture or at this point my sons and the lawsuits they've actually sued me for posting my own pictures.

You know, when I talk about taking back control and why I'm so passionate about this is because I have had extremely brutal things happen to me around this, particularly in my 20s, particularly when I was really vulnerable and I wasn't able to see these kind of situations for what they were. I blame myself. I didn't have the resources that I have now to fight back.

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