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Backlash UK retweeted
Please stop making me post this cartoon.
ALT Hand-drawn cartoon with pale yellow background. A woman in a business suit has her hand over the mouth of a younger woman wearing a red umbrella tshirt, preventing her from speaking. The older woman says: "Someone has to speak for these women!" In the bottom right-hand corner, the artist signature.
Backlash UK retweeted
I wish I didn’t have to write this
I am an artist, not a politician, and would rather speak through creative action than explanatory text
But I find that for several reasons, I must respond to accusations and smears made against me these last couple of weeks
🧵 1/12
Backlash UK retweeted
The press coverage of Leonie Rae Gasson's Rein is like the most reactionary bilge about Arts Council funding in the 1970s all over again... And so one-sided.... That's culture wars for you. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gm…
Backlash UK retweeted
On #IWD2024 we’re taking to the streets, our streets, to demand an end to criminalisation, to punitive punishments, to the global systems of oppression that keep us exploited as women and as workers.
Liberation for us, is liberation for all.
Free Palestine.
Backlash UK retweeted
3rd March marks International Sex Workers' Rights Day! On this day, sex workers around the world share and celebrate their successes, and continue to call for the safety, justice and inclusion that sex workers are so often denied.
#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
ALT A bright blue background with red umbrellas. The text reads "Happy sex workers' rights day!"
Backlash UK retweeted
The Independent Pornography Review led by @BertinGabby must centre the needs and rights of online sex workers and porn performers.
Our statement, co-signed by @FSCArmy @NationalUglyMug @AIAorg @officialukap @backlashuk
Backlash UK retweeted
Nigel Farage has launched a website "for individuals and small medium businesses who have been unfairly treated by banks"
I think all S*x Workers should create themselves an email address to register on that site and see who he really cares about...
accountclosed.org/about-4
Backlash UK retweeted
@backlashuk BREAKING: Tower Hamlets have agreed to allow vetted, members-only “queer, kink, and Fetish events” within their borough! 👍
vice.com/en/article/93abxz/s…
Backlash UK retweeted
Tomorrow @BristolCouncil's licensing committee will decide whether to ban strip clubs in the city. Evidence from our research with workers shows how this will negatively impact dancers' physical safety, mental health, work & income. Nil-cap is NOT the answer! @BristolSWC
Backlash UK retweeted
This is a huge victory for sex workers in Bristol. There’s still so much more to do, but today we celebrate.
So much love today to the incredible people at @unitedswers and @BristolSWC. You did it ❤️
We are absolutely delighted to hear that @BristolCouncil has voted against imposing a nil-cap ban on strip clubs with a 9-1 majority.
This is a victory for all dancers across Bristol, ensuring their continued access to regulated workplaces and workers' rights within them.
Backlash UK retweeted
We are absolutely delighted to hear that @BristolCouncil has voted against imposing a nil-cap ban on strip clubs with a 9-1 majority.
This is a victory for all dancers across Bristol, ensuring their continued access to regulated workplaces and workers' rights within them.
Backlash UK retweeted
This survey is to explore the opinions of people living with HIV in Ireland, on the services and supports that are available, the challenges and gaps, and to obtain suggestions for how services could be improved.
myonlinesurvey.co.uk/HV22PLW…
Backlash UK retweeted
It's incredibly vague and subjective, you can leave marks, as long as they're not more than "trifling and transitory", but there's no clear definition of what that means 🙄
Take a look at the @backlashuk feed and website for more information.
Backlash UK retweeted
That makes as much sense as the Operation Spanner case in the UK in the late 1980s where a group of gay men into BDSM were convicted of "aiding and abetting" assaults on themselves, despite the fact that the law says an assault is something done to you *without* your consent!
Backlash UK retweeted
Going to pour myself a large glass of cool white wine and toast the pausing of the Online Safety Bill, a truly awful piece of legislation even by the standards of modern government.
(And credit to all those who fought the good fight against it even when it seemed hopeless…)
Backlash UK retweeted
Oh look, it's Dame Diana Johnson again with her same old puritanical moralistic agenda 🙄
How many more times does she have to lose before she understands that people don't need her to tell them what they can or cannot look at?
Backlash UK retweeted
How can we reduce abuse against LGBTQ+ people online? The @GlanvilleCentre at @unilincoln has released a toolkit developed by Rachela Colosi, Megan Todd, and myself. The advice is based on focus groups with most impacted groups. We introduce it here: eleanorglanvillecentre.linco…
Backlash UK retweeted
We are pleased to present our new report on financial discrimination: Payment Rejected! 💳
nationaluglymugs.org/wp-cont…
We hope that UK financial institutions will partner with us to stop discrimination against sex workers and implement our recommendations to end further harm.
#BDSW
ALT An image of money. The text reads: A study on the financial discrimination of sex workers.