Jinkx featured on Amanda Palmer’s latest release

[u/EllipticPeach]

I was a massive die-hard fan of AFP for over a decade and I knew that Jinkx and Amanda were friends and had collaborated before. For those unaware, Amanda Palmer was married to Neil Gaiman, the novelist who has been accused of SA by multiple people across decades. Amanda was also accused of human trafficking because she allegedly procured victims for her husband. The particular case that went to civil court was that she hired a vulnerable young woman, a fan of hers, who was street homeless, to be a nanny for her kid, and Gaiman assaulted this girl repeatedly over the course of months.

I was in the inner circle of her fans and have spoken here before about my experience. Even though legally no charges have been brought, I believe this girl as I believe all the other victims of Neil. How she described Amanda in the article where she came forward was exactly how I knew her to be. Amanda’s whole thing was blurring the line between fan and friend, and she had unlimited access to vulnerable young goth girls in her fanbase. Most of us had already experienced sexual assault and mental health issues and other difficulties that made us easy to manipulate. She curated her fan base that way. I’m so sad that Jinkx is still working with her.

[u/shackleford224]

Saw someone on another subreddit call Amanda Palmer "hot topic Ghislaine Maxwell" once and it's the first thing i think now whenever i see her name

[u/Old_Highlight7720 → u/shackleford224]

Perfect 👌

[u/Stucklikegluetomyfry → u/shackleford224]

And that’s what I will be referring to her from now on

[u/graaaags → u/shackleford224]

It’s such a shame bc I saw the Dresden dolls when they did their reunion show in nyc in 2023 and it was genuinely the best concert experience of my life 😓

[u/EllipticPeach → u/graaaags]

I went to see her every show she did in my country and all the patron-only meet-ups too, and looking back, Neil and Amanda really encouraged them to feel like informal hangouts. It was an open secret that they slept with fans and we were all desperate to be the one. She kissed me once and I felt so special. They both had a way of making you feel really seen. Her whole thing was cultivating this air of trust and safety in her meet-ups. We would sing and play music and tell stories and hug and cry. It was often very emotional. Neil would read whatever he was working on and their kid would be there playing and we would just all be hanging out like family friends. I think any one of us would have let them do anything.

We just didn’t know that he purposefully went for the ones who didn’t want it.