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2025 Transgender Social Media Safety Report
This project is a visual research report I produced in late 2025 examining how major social media platforms address the safety of transgender users through policy and enforcement. The 2025 Transgender Social Media Safety Report analyzes 15 widely used platforms, comparing stated policy commitments with observable moderation practices. The report identifies a persistent gap between policy presence and policy performance. While many platforms name gender identity or expression
Kieran Helbling
Dec 20, 20251 min read


Work in Progress: Synthetic Sophists and the Predictive Situation
This post shares an in-progress draft that reflects my research and writing style, conceptual development, and method of argumentation. The piece, Synthetic Sophists and the Predictive Situation , is a working manuscript that brings together rhetorical theory, critical technology studies, and trans studies to examine how algorithmic systems operate as persuasive and truth-producing actors within institutional infrastructures. Rather than presenting a polished or finalized arg
Kieran Helbling
Dec 12, 20251 min read


Developing Idea: In Consideration of Mediation as the Sixth Rhetorical Canon
Here, I share a first-pass draft of theoretical project that argues for mediation as a sixth rhetorical canon. The paper was written as an exploratory intervention, focused on mapping a genealogy of mediation across rhetoric, philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies, and on testing whether mediation names a distinct form of rhetorical labor not fully accounted for by the classical canons. As an early draft, the piece is not yet fully flushed out. Most notably, it lacks
Kieran Helbling
Dec 4, 20251 min read
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