Backlash UK

Backlash provides academic, legal, and campaigning resources to defend freedom of sexual expression for consenting adults. Please donate:

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

Happy International Women's Day to all who identify as women. Backlash supports women's rights, trans rights and LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍⚧️ #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2025 #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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 🧵 ]

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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 🧵 ]

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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]

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.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk [end 🧵]

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

You can donate so we can continue campaigning to defend the sexual rights of consenting adults, by clicking on our bio lnk.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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 🧵

[Marin Scarlett @marinscarlett_]

@ScotGovJustice @AConstance23 Please stop making me post this cartoon.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

'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.' https://t.co/KxsUqMFfUD

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

“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.” https://t.co/eOVQ8WK6cI

[Charlotte Church @charlottechurch]

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

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[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

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]

Our statement on the project Rein

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

[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.

[Backlash UK @backlashuk]

[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.