![]() ![]() The story spread like wildfire through social media and online publications, while AE’s advertisers just as quickly poised themselves to flee the site. ![]() Bendix’s post was made on her personal account because she had been denied permission to say anything on AfterEllen itself. Her sadness and anger evident, Bendix characterised Evolve/TotallyHer as ‘mainly white heterosexual men’ and linked AfterEllen’s fate with the increasing disappearance of lesbian spaces in both the digital and actual world. On September 20, Trish Bendix, (ex) Editor-in-Chief of monumental lesbian pop culture site AfterEllen, left, delivered an internet bombshell by announcing that the site ‘as we know it will be shutting down’.) Explaining that AfterEllen’s corporate owner Evolve/TotallyHer Media was dismissing the site’s permanent staff to divert funds to its ‘moms and fashion’ properties, Bendix relayed the owner’s intention to keep the site’s archive online updated by freelance writers. ![]() Make a lesbian contribution to the People’s Mental Health Review After AfterEllen Our Whiringa-ā-nuku update – all items collected in one handy page!ĪfterEllen a sign of shrinking LGBTQ cyberspace ![]()
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