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Backlash provides academic, legal, and campaigning resources to defend freedom of sexual expression for consenting adults. Please donate: https://teapaw.org/t.co/YzMYNwveOH

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Joined January 2010
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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
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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. 🧵 Donate link in bio. #obscenepublicationsact1959 #onlinesafetybill #sexualfreedom
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There's a universe of immediately accessible online porn - you can't process one film at a time. Her perspective still seems trapped in the past as porn being something you 'buy' as a physical thing like a VHS tape, not fuelled by algorithms and profit. [end 🧵 ]
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There's a universe of immediately accessible online porn - you can't process one film at a time. Her perspective still seems trapped in the past as porn being something you 'buy' as a physical thing like a VHS tape, not fuelled by algorithms and profit. [end 🧵 ]
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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.
Canon Ann Easter (@CanonAnnEaster) profile pictureCanon Ann Easter@CanonAnnEaster1 Mar 2025
RIP Dr Tuppy Owens who died yesterday. Campaigner, founder of Outsiders Club, friend to so many, sister and so much more. Her legacy will live on.
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You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.
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You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.
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You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk [end 🧵]
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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 🧵
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You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.
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Replying to @ScotGovJustice @AConstance23
Please stop making me post this cartoon.
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.

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.

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'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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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
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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.
Creative Scotland (@CreativeScots) profile pictureCreative Scotland@CreativeScots10 Mar 2024
Our statement on the project Rein
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.

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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[4] We would like to advise Arts Scotland against withdrawing funding for Leonie Rae Gaston’s Rein, pressurised by groups whose goal is to silence and stigmatise queer, sex workers and marginalised folks that suffer constant criminalisation and abuse.
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[5] Last week, we advised @GabbyBertin on the Independent Porn Review. We highlighted myths & stereotypes about sex & porn, often mixed with child abuse & gendered violence, all present on the #onlinesafetyact #OSA, that victimises adult industry workers & by extension, the arts.
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