Since September 2024, Abigail has been working with several size community “elders” — or people who have been active members of size community spaces online since the late 1980s or 1990s — to archive as much art, literature, other cultural outputs, and websites or online forums produced by and for the size community as possible. Initially prompted by discussions surrounding the ephemerality of online spaces devoted to niche erotic communities — partly as a result of the consolidation of the Internet to a small collection of social media platforms which control and harbour the online “public” at large, partly as a result of community members struggling to keep up with the administrative work and costs associated with running niche online forums, and partly due to the effects of legal or regulatory restrictions on adult content online — this archival drive Abigail is currently coordinating became ever more necessary, and ever more urgent, following the re-election of Donald Trump as US President in November 2024.
Throughout the run-up to the 2024 US Presidential Election, the spectre of extreme sexual repression under a future Trump presidency — or indeed, under any future conservative American administration, hung heavy in the air. Buried within Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — a frankly dystopian 900-page vision for the United States’ future, produced in collaboration with several members of the first Trump administration, and promoted as part of Project 2025 by hard-conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation — is a threat to criminalise pornography, and to shutter any website or telecommunications provider that permits access to it. Prime targets of this sort of rhetoric, and the punitive political action that may be enacted as a result of it, are niche erotic communities which exist on the very margins of sexuality, which welcome and celebrate a diverse array of queer identities and forms of creative sexual expression significantly beyond the normative, of which the size community is one. It has therefore become critical that action is taken to preserve as much of the size community’s online presence and its creative output as possible, in case the oppressive threats posed to such communities by the new hard-right American political orthodoxy — or by other sex-negative conservative governments around the world — become manifest reality.
Queer, polyamorous size-kink author, sex blogger, and community figurehead Elle Largesse has given permission for Abigail to archive her entire collection of blog posts, short stories, novellas, and Twitter posts. Links to this archive will be posted to this page within the coming days. Additionally, Abigail has been working with size community “elder” Taedis — who maintains a private collection of materials relating to the size-kink community called the Size Library & Museum — to approach other writers, artists, and community figures to collect as much relevant material as possible to be archived.
Alongside archiving as much size ephemera as possible on this website, Abigail also intends to approach the UK Kink & Fetish Archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, London, to archive as much physically printed material contributed by the size community as possible.