Queer Computer is a “fortnightly” newsletter cruising the intersections of queerness and technology — exploring the world of computers, games and the internet.

It’s written by me, Joel Humphries. I’m a writer, editor, and very occasionally an artist, living and practicing on Wurundjeri land. My work has been published on Overland, Hag Mag Magazine, and right here.

Where do I start?

Here’s a few of my favourite posts to get you started.

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HOLY F*CKING BINGLE!

The plan has always been for Queer Computer to be a semi-regular affair, but alas, it’s been 3 months since my last post. I had considered logging on to discuss the whole Elon Musk/Twitter debacle, and I even wrote a few words that amounted to “Twitter has always sucked and now it is suckier”. However I didn’t publish this hot take because it didn’t fee…

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4 months ago · 6 likes · Joel Humphries

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BIG GAY DATA

Every online interaction — be it a click, swipe, like, or share — produces a data point. From our social media activity to our dating app preferences, all these data points can be collated to create a digital shadow of ourselves that likely outs us as gay. Consider, for example, the many articles about the TikTok algorithm knowing someone was…

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2 months ago · 6 likes · Joel Humphries

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Get in loser, we're queering the map

You’ll always remember the tree you sat under when you came out to your best friend, the park you shared your first gay kiss, the bar your crush broke your heart in, and the public picnic table you were fucked on in the middle of the day … At the end of my…

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a year ago · 5 likes · Joel Humphries

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Fashion Week on a budget

I think my personal invitation to Paris Fashion Week last month was lost in the mail. As the lead (and only) writer of a fledgling queer tech newsletter independently published on Substack, I was pretty gutted. There must have been some kind of mix up, did they accidentally invite Joel Creasey? Why even self-publish an email newsletter without the recog…

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a year ago · 3 likes · Joel Humphries