Miles McKenna Got Misgendered in a Space That Was Supposed to Be Safe

The growing complexity of VidCon is becoming a problem.

A. Khaled
6 min readJul 15, 2019

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At AT&T’s Turn Up the Love festival, co-sponsored by the LOVELOUD foundation. Courtesy of Miles McKenna.

If you’re even mildly interested by what happens on YouTube and how the platform has come to shape an entire era of pop culture that found its home in niches and extreme ubiquity at the same time, you would’ve been alert that VidCon happened over the last…

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A. Khaled

Internet culture scribe with an interest in the digital economy, content creators, media and politics.