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Livejournal is a social media platform centered around journaling created in 1999. Users can upload entries to their personal journals, follow other users' journals, and make and receive comments on individual entries. The site also allows users to create and join "communities", which generally allow members to upload their own entries and serve as hubs for discussion of shared interests. | Livejournal is a social media platform centered around journaling created in 1999. Users can upload entries to their personal journals, follow other users' journals, and make and receive comments on individual entries. The site also allows users to create and join "communities", which generally allow members to upload their own entries and serve as hubs for discussion of shared interests. | ||
The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. Trans scholar Cassius Adair views the social networks of queer and trans young people that formed on Livejournal as a precursor to non-binary networking on [[Tumblr]].<ref>Adair, Cassius. "Delete Yr Account: Speculations on Trans Digital Lives and the Anti-Archival, Part I: Are You Sure?". Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory. 2019.</ref> | The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. Trans scholar Cassius Adair views the social networks of queer and trans young people that formed on Livejournal as a precursor to non-binary and transmasculine networking on [[Tumblr]].<ref>Adair, Cassius. "Delete Yr Account: Speculations on Trans Digital Lives and the Anti-Archival, Part I: Are You Sure?". Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory. 2019.</ref> | ||
== Communities == | == Communities == | ||