‘Tumblr mostly, great empowering images:’ blogging, reblogging and scrolling feminist, queer and BDSM desires

This article examines the results of the online questionnaire (www.feministdesires.com) focused on the audience engagements with feminist pornographies. The analysis is centred around the ninety participants that mentioned Tumblr in their qualitative responses. The goal is to highlight the themes emerging from the inductive analysis of the sample in relation to why Tumblr might be an important space for the access, circulation, curation and creation of queer, feminist and BDSM porn. In addition, the analysis aims at understanding the internet access practices of porn audiences and shed light on the relationships between images, affects and networked community. Since the research focuses on audiences that access pornographic texts that they would define as ‘feminist’, it also sheds light on the political, ethical, aesthetical dimensions of engagement with and definition of feminist sexual texts, practices, communities.