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Regina
@reginavant.bsky.social
Mum • surfer • dog lover
Marketing brain for hire @ Unapologetic Impact + teacher in Leiden.
Researching AI/XR & their impact on love, intimacy & connection.
Ad feminam. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

New blog: Calling unsolicited image-policing "advice" is a rhetorical move with a name, a history, and a power dynamic baked right in.
👉 reginavantongeren.nl/2026/02/17/a...

#GenderAndTech #WomenInBusiness
Ad Feminam: The "Friendly Advice" That Isn't - ReginavanTongeren
On rhetoric, framing, the male gaze, and why we’re still having this conversation in 2026. Every now and then I […]
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February 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Logged into a VR event and discovered my old avatar was gone.
Was surprisingly sad.

In my research I call this synthetic relationality: we experience technology as relational. We feel, but systems cannot love back, only simulate that they do.

Are we ready for that, ethically & psychologically?
February 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM