Second Life: Another Retrospective of the Past Twelve Years

Recently, I wrote about how I was “shutting down” my store and moving on from Second Life, potentially, indefinitely. That much was basically true, and my store still exists as something you can find on the marketplace website (REVOSA)… where all of its sales happen, anyway. And, as my vacation away from my offline job comes to an end, I kind of find myself looking back to how it all started in 2014. How I was pushed out of a job, because I came out as a trans woman in the workplace … naively. Had you told me this was against my best interest, I might have decided against it. But I didn’t know what I was doing. And, like I’ve detailed numerous times before, this resulted in some of the most horrific treatment I’ve ever been party to, afflicted with, in my entire life. And yes, I got pushed out. I lost that job. They took away my scheduling, my bosses threatened me, HR ignored my pleas. And this is how we got to Second Life, and building a store in Second Life. I wish I could find the…