RAW MEAT COLLECTIVE
Kyle Quinn
@kylequinnnn | @rawmeatcollective
Artist Kyle Quinn runs a fine art publishing house based in Brooklyn NY. Raw Meat Collective publishes titles that give voice to a Queer Femme perspective in contemporary art. Publishers like this are one of the few contacts for isolated pockets around the country giving individuals online representation and the ability to become members of a larger community.
Quinn is painfully aware of Instagram’s importance as a marketing platform. Small independent booksellers and contemporary artists rely on Instagram to connect like-minded communities. However, Quinn’s personal artist account has been deleted three separate times. This erasure is common in much of the LGBTQ communities where users must often have backup accounts ready to go. Last year Quinn’s account was erased (later re-instated) after these photos of a sex worker in New Jersey were posted. These photos do not appear to violate Instagram’s nudity or female nipple policy.
Because Quinn’s posts are highly scrutinized, he sometimes “archive” posts in order to maintain an visual history and hopefully bypass the algorithm. “Archived” posts are available only to the user and therefore should be unreachable by anyone who would find these images obscene. However the images in his private archive are also disappearing and then these “private” removed posts are used against his account in terms of “violations”.
IMAGE CREDIT: Image 1: Junk Yard Jess #13, Polaroid Film, 2019. Image 2: Junk Yard Jess #04, Fuji Wide 300 Film, 2019. All Images Courtesy Kyle Quinn & Red Meat Collective.