rax
@raxsha.bsky.social
I write about sex work & tech mashable.com/author/raksha-muthukumar
former tech union organizer 🤖👊🏾 former sex educator 🍑🍆 former rat mom 🐀💗
📍brooklyn girl in paris https://recoveryinrax.substack.com/
🏳️🌈 she/அவள்/elle
former tech union organizer 🤖👊🏾 former sex educator 🍑🍆 former rat mom 🐀💗
📍brooklyn girl in paris https://recoveryinrax.substack.com/
🏳️🌈 she/அவள்/elle
Idk where we got the idea that bidets are a common French thing I've never seen one anywhere in France but so many brown ppl countries use water???? Feels like an improper credit here
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Idk where we got the idea that bidets are a common French thing I've never seen one anywhere in France but so many brown ppl countries use water???? Feels like an improper credit here
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I was on my gf's youtube account trying to watch the 4th part of a series that i'd seen the first 3 of on my own account, and it *would not show it to me* despite searching for the full title + "part 4". i had to just go to the account page and go from there. it was absurd!
We're so used to tech platforms being completely unsearchable now that the idea of manually directing our attention to find what we want seems tedious & old fashioned instead of letting their algorithms choose for us
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I was on my gf's youtube account trying to watch the 4th part of a series that i'd seen the first 3 of on my own account, and it *would not show it to me* despite searching for the full title + "part 4". i had to just go to the account page and go from there. it was absurd!
We're so used to tech platforms being completely unsearchable now that the idea of manually directing our attention to find what we want seems tedious & old fashioned instead of letting their algorithms choose for us
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM
We're so used to tech platforms being completely unsearchable now that the idea of manually directing our attention to find what we want seems tedious & old fashioned instead of letting their algorithms choose for us
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Demonstrators set US flag on fire on Place de la République in Paris during the rally against the American military intervention in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Demonstrators set US flag on fire on Place de la République in Paris during the rally against the American military intervention in Venezuela.
always appreciate when ppl include a non-alcoholic beer for me bc hiccups and a lil queasy & dehydrated on the train home rly does keep me sober
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 PM
always appreciate when ppl include a non-alcoholic beer for me bc hiccups and a lil queasy & dehydrated on the train home rly does keep me sober
It's an embarrassing day to be an American but not when I'm living in the EU
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
It's an embarrassing day to be an American but not when I'm living in the EU
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anyway, good moment to lightly track who’s already making excuses for this. exercise some of the old iraq war muscles
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
anyway, good moment to lightly track who’s already making excuses for this. exercise some of the old iraq war muscles
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well, good luck doing Pinochet 2 (Now With Less Ground Support™️), i’ll be here with all people of conscience and brainpower knowing it’s a goddamn inexcusable moral crime
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
well, good luck doing Pinochet 2 (Now With Less Ground Support™️), i’ll be here with all people of conscience and brainpower knowing it’s a goddamn inexcusable moral crime
I'm finding lit mags to submit short fiction to and just got so mad this one literally WANTS generated AI/LLM art & writing!! How dare y'all????
January 3, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I'm finding lit mags to submit short fiction to and just got so mad this one literally WANTS generated AI/LLM art & writing!! How dare y'all????
I wrote about #heatedrivalry and the culture of community and creativity in fandom. Dove into @archiveofourown.org's top ships for 2025, the strange staying power of the Harry Potter fandom, & Stephen Colbert calling himself a bossy bottom on CNN's New Year's Eve.
open.substack.com/pub/recovery...
open.substack.com/pub/recovery...
the best part about being obsessed with something is the friends we made along the way
heated rivalry is a shot of adrenaline for fandom culture; art craves community. bonus: AO3's top ships 2025 and the contradictory staying power of harry potter
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I wrote about #heatedrivalry and the culture of community and creativity in fandom. Dove into @archiveofourown.org's top ships for 2025, the strange staying power of the Harry Potter fandom, & Stephen Colbert calling himself a bossy bottom on CNN's New Year's Eve.
open.substack.com/pub/recovery...
open.substack.com/pub/recovery...
Resolving to get gayer this year, so
January 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Resolving to get gayer this year, so
Slowly realizing even my political friends who say they hate AI are using it to speed up tasks like email writing, formatting grant applications etc
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Slowly realizing even my political friends who say they hate AI are using it to speed up tasks like email writing, formatting grant applications etc
The Housemaid made me come home and hug the family for whom I am a live-in nanny
December 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Housemaid made me come home and hug the family for whom I am a live-in nanny
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Anyone who thinks the trans panic is about protecting women hasn't been paying attention.
My insurance company just sent me a letter saying they will stop covering two of my prescriptions because they are ‘not medically necessary’. Which ones?
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Anyone who thinks the trans panic is about protecting women hasn't been paying attention.
The best thing left on facebook is Buy Nothing groups but the second best thing is the Are We Dating The Same Guy groups where women post their man and check if he's anyone else's man too
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The best thing left on facebook is Buy Nothing groups but the second best thing is the Are We Dating The Same Guy groups where women post their man and check if he's anyone else's man too
I can't believe there's nowhere streaming most of Dr. Who OR Supernatural now???
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I can't believe there's nowhere streaming most of Dr. Who OR Supernatural now???
I think if the #heatedrivalry script was a fic posted on AO3, it would rate.... moderately. Like it was fine, but any mainstream smut content makes me appreciate that my sexuality was raised in queer online spaces
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think if the #heatedrivalry script was a fic posted on AO3, it would rate.... moderately. Like it was fine, but any mainstream smut content makes me appreciate that my sexuality was raised in queer online spaces
no but what do u mean my guy
December 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
no but what do u mean my guy
not the unflared bases wrapped 💔
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
defector.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
not the unflared bases wrapped 💔
can't believe we went full circle with streaming becoming like cable and now everyone's pirating again so that's got me asking myself how they've been doing that
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
can't believe we went full circle with streaming becoming like cable and now everyone's pirating again so that's got me asking myself how they've been doing that
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Ok I'm starting heated rivalry Y'ALL WIN
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ok I'm starting heated rivalry Y'ALL WIN
there are brown ppl who think they're better than other brown ppl
Why does Usha put up with this? They have biracial kids together.🤷🏾♀️
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
there are brown ppl who think they're better than other brown ppl