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April 21, 2021 02:39 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22392534/peer-2-peer-twitch-streaming-tool-trans-streamers-lgbtq
Trans streamers are creating the visibility Twitch wont give them
“Identity shapes what we want to share and what we want to broadcast, [so] it is part of our content,” says Yana Calou, PR director of Trans Lifeline. The nonprofit operates a peer support and crisis hotline and offers microgrants to trans and nonbinary recipients. More recently, it launched a streaming discovery tool called Peer2Peer that functions as a searchable directory. Broadcasters can tag themselves in categories like “trans,” “Black,” or “lesbian,” and viewers can search for the tags they want to see.
With Twitch reluctant to allow identity-based tagging, marginalized viewers’ ability to find streamers and associated communities of people like them has been limited. But when a group of streamers approached Trans Lifeline about...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22392534/peer-2-peer-twitch-streaming-tool-trans-streamers-lgbtq
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