Pleasure & Permission: A Better Digital World Doesn't Censor Our Experiences
A collaborative discussion with Olivia DeRamus (Founder & CEO, Communia), Ami Gan (Co-Founder & CEO, Vylit; former CEO, OnlyFans), Izzy Du (Fashion Designer; Founder of Izzy Du and Madame Amara), and Nolan Feng (Secretary, Tom of Finland Foundation).
Moderated by Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune's Most Powerful Women Editor.
A better digital world for women, queer communities, and marginalized groups is a sex-positive one. Not because every platform needs to be about sex, but because no platform can fully serve us while pretending desire, embodiment, and pleasure don't exist. Olivia DeRamus runs Communia, the social platform redefining what it means to feel safe online as a woman. Ami Gan, former CEO of OnlyFans, now co-leads Vylit, rewriting the rules of the creator economy for the post-OnlyFans generation.
On the surface, their platforms answer different questions. Underneath, they're answering the same one: What does a digital world built for women's pleasure, safety, and self-determination actually look like?
Underneath all of it is a deeper distortion: women's everyday lives get sexualized when they shouldn't be. A survivor naming her abuser, a doctor explaining endometriosis, a #MeToo post - flagged, throttled, removed. Meanwhile, the women and marginalized communities who openly choose visibility get treated as the problem. The filters can't tell the difference. The lifesaving conversations lose first.
Izzy Du, who builds for women's agency at the intersection of fashion and science-backed intimacy support, rounds out the discussion by bringing her lived experience as a creator and founder navigating these issues daily on social media.
Nolan Feng, Secretary of the Tom of Finland Foundation, deepens the discussion further. The Foundation has spent decades preserving sex-positive queer art and defending it against the same forces - payment processors, social media moderation, institutional censorship - that women-founded platforms are running into today. His perspective places the conversation inside a longer queer history of sex-positive resistance that this generation of founders is inheriting more than inventing.
This is not a panel about hashtags. It's a candid hour (inclusive of the audience) on what a better digital world looks like when big social shadowbans while encouraging harassment, app stores moderate, investors flinch, and women and queer communities still carry the cultural cost of being too much, too loud, and too visible.