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SHIFTHEADS: Posting Relationships on Social Media: The Performative Question Nobody's Asking
Posting relationships on social media starts with one uncomfortable question. Your partner never shares photos of you two together. Their feed shows friends, food, travel, everything except you. You're three months in. Six months. A year. You finally ask why. They say they value privacy. You hear: they're hiding you. Who's actually being performative here?
Kirsch argues the person demanding to be posted is the one performing, not the one posting. It signals underlying issues like lack of trust or jealousy over a work spouse. Tedesco counters that posting is cute and endearing, shouting from…
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