cohost taught me what I want in a social media--limited reach, a medium length format, and room to play with the format (thank you, css)
it also gave me space to reset/refresh who was in my circle--my fb and twitter are poluted with people I don't know how to interact with due to... well i guess trauma's the fastest way to describe it--and cohost guaranteed the ones I did not want to chance seeing my Rich Inner Life would not. This liberation spawned both the self portrait I have pinned and the associated essay on inherent value, two things I treasure for the way they reseated me1, plus a myriad of Silly Things I would not have tried elsewhere, as the freedom to be Silly is forever tainted for me on those platforms.
I'm going to miss not being Under The Gaze of Metrics; I've only just begun learning just how far reaching its affects are in me.
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and of course a vital attribution to bell hooks's the will to change, which was the catalyst