Gallery and panel joining artists and researchers to unpack how Instagram moderates queer intimacy while profiting from its aesthetics.

Across Instagram, queer expression continues to disappear – not through a single sweeping ban, but through a steady, quiet drift toward invisibility. A platform built on aesthetic display routinely flags LGBTQIA+ bodies as unsafe, explicit, or out of bounds, even as it profits from the same visual language it polices. The result is a social environment where queer users learn to edit and shrink themselves long before an algorithm ever intervenes.

Sensitive Content: Queer Art, Algorithms & Censorship brings together artists, researchers, and community storytellers to examine what’s happening beneath these decisions: how Instagram’s rules reshape intimacy; how its moderation systems inherit long-standing cultural and legal biases; and how creators build alternative archives when their images are repeatedly removed or suppressed.

The evening features a small gallery of Instagram-censored artworks, accompanied by brief explanations of why they were removed, as well as space for attendees to share their own experiences. The goal is not only to ask why queer intimacy is treated as a threat on Instagram, but to consider who gets to define “community standards,” and what it means when entire communities are asked to make themselves smaller to fit them.