Backlash provides academic, legal, and campaigning resources to defend freedom of sexual expression for consenting adults. Please donate: https://xitter.cf/t.co/YzMYNwveOH
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Happy International Women's Day to all who identify as women. Backlash supports women's rights, trans rights and LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️⚧️ #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2025 #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
We have been reading Baroness Bertin's Recommendations and noted that there is no mention of Patriarchy and Capitalism as driving forces behind porn consumption and the commodification of sex. 🧵
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#obscenepublicationsact1959 #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom
RIP Dr Tuppy Owens, a pioneer and champion of sexual freedom, campaigner for the right to sexual expression of disbled people, and creator, if I remember correctly, of The Sex Maniacs' Ball. Among many, many other things in her long life. Rest in power.
Backlash is 20! We firmed in 2005 as response to the Home Office white paper on Extreme Pornography, tp campaign against the extreme pornography/dangerous images clauses in the Criminal Justice and Immigration bill 2008 🧵
'On Tuesday, a three-panel judge of the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that prevents minors from obtaining contraceptives at federally-funded Title X clinics without parental consent.' tinyurl.com/4xjcj3xp
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“While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, providing identification every time you want to visit an adult platform is not an effective solution for protecting users online, and in fact, will put minors and your privacy at risk.” tinyurl.com/4r4rpuj7
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If the piece proposed is to be created, performed and viewed by consenting adults, how does its explicit content affect its merit to deserve @CreativeScots funding? The representation of sex, including queer sex, is an important, timeless subject in art and culture.
Our statement on the project Rein
ALT A statement on Rein We support freedom of expression and artists being able to push the boundaries of radical performance. However, the project, Rein, is considerably more explicit in its execution than was indicated in the application received to our Open Fund. As such, we are reviewing this award and will be discussing next steps with the applicant and with the other partners in the project.
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We offer legal and campaigning advice on freedom of sexual expression between consenting adults since 2008. Most if not all our cases involved women, marginalised and/or queer folks, of which Leonie Rae Gaston’s proposed piece Rein is a sadly familiar example 🧵
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"[academics at Warwick University] found an ongoing disconnect between lawyers’ understanding of the way rape victims react to trauma & the dangers of relying on myths and stereotypes “and the way in which cases were understood and evaluated in practice." tinyurl.com/msnnbyv4
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Thank you The Free Speech Coalition @FSCArmy , for responding to UK Age Verification Guidance in plain words and using simple examples to help you understand the complexities. Read it! freespeechcoalition.com/blog…
Without a doubt, the unchallenged, Victorian one could say, stereotypical portrayal of the adult industry in the media, plays a big part in this stigmatisation.
Interesting, if disappointing findings about sex work/er acceptance (or lack of): independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Aren't this man's acts already covered by the Stalking Protection Order 2019 and Malicious Comms Act 1988? Why the Online Safety Act? Serious questions🤔 #sackthebill
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On #ageverifiation: "As a general matter, @FSCArmy feels that placing the burden of age assurance on individual websites is detrimental to the law's goals for the reasons we outline below." 🧵
Did you know that in some countries, #IWD is called International Working Women's Day? happy even of #IWD! We support @ukdecrimnow's #sexworkersstrike tomorrow because #sexworkiswork. #8M #IWD #IWD2024
Mon 4th - we attended @SWU Sex Workers Union: Challenging Sex Worker Invisibility online conference where sw reps argued w. @Ofcom Sarah Blight and Joe Bulmer, the need to consullt adult industry workers & stakeholders #sackthebill
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So what has Backlash been doing lately for you perverts? Let us give us a resume of the last month, apart from giving out logo a polish, because optics matter [thread]
[2] Feb 19: invited to round table with Baroness Bertin, who leads the Gov’s Independent Pornography Review, created in the wake of the Online Safety Act. Shout out to industry orgs & stakeholder reps: @AIAorg @swunion_uk @pandorablake @ms_tytania academic Oliver Carter.
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The Government has commissioned an Independent Review into Pornography Regulation, Legislation, and Enforcement, and the Call for Evidence ends at midnight on 7 March.
Here’s the link to the online form you can fill out to submit evidence: dsit.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
“The foot fetish is the most popular fetish in the UK and this is the perfect product for my fans, who are a huge reason for my success. I hope that we can normalise fetishes rather than stereotyping peoples’ preferences" thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/0…
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