Kind of hate that for the past several years, I find myself dreading the month of June because that's when the right-wing decides to be *especially* anti-LGBTQ (more than the usual amount, which is a lot) as a way to show how much they hate the idea of Pride.

Are we finally ready to talk about how terfs have been helping the far right destroy women’s rights by pushing hyper femininity yet or is it too early for this decades old information too.

Labeling entire accounts “adult” and hiding them, no matter what they are posting, will inevitably suppress vast amounts non-explicit political speech around sex work and censorship. The accounts most likely to speak out about over moderation are the ones first to experience it — the whistleblowers

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

BREAKING: The Kars 4 Kids band say they will no longer appear at Freedom 250.

At a time when US AID is already devastated, Exodus Cry and NCOSE are demanding that additional foreign aid be contingent on criminalization of sex work. A new bill would add provisions to the TVPA that further conflate sex work with trafficking. www.einpresswire.com/article/9158...

"I am not a victim, I am a woman who speaks four languages and studied economics. I have worked in various professions. Why shouldn't I work as a sex worker if that's where I'm most successful and can use my strengths."

Remember when Mark Robinson, the GOP gubernatorial candidate for NC, sued a porn clerk who said he'd been a frequent consumer in the '90s, only to have Robinson later confess that it was him. The clerk is now suing him for malicious prosecution.

So all obvious jokes about the ancient GREEKS aside - A lot of these men are just really mad that they’re not A Hot Girl. They want to be *the Object of Desire*, by straight men. They see images of women used to sell everything, and think “oh that’s what female power is” and they want to usurp it

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

"Misogyny and anti-sex-worker hate have always been a major issue on the internet—but with the rise of the “manosphere,” the term used to describe streamers and podcast bros who often demean women, it’s arguably gotten much worse."

That’s our founder and executive director Jaclyn Friedman talking with the Great Battlefield Podcast about why trans-inclusive sex ed is a winning issue - as long as progressives show up to the fight. You can listen to the whole episode here: buff.ly/jFSSGVD

The infamous Fifth Circuit has stayed an injunction, meaning the Texas App Store Accountability Act now goes into effect. App stores — essentially, Apple, Google and Microsoft — will now be required to age verify all users, through facial scans and other means.

Ukrainian parliament has failed to pass a bill decriminalizing pornography. Over 1,500 people have been charged this year with producing, distributing or possessing porn. "In modern democratic Ukraine, adults will continue to be thrown in prison for 7 years for sending each other their nude photos"

trans rights might sound like a Big Ask to some people, but it's not a Hard Ask. the average person has to do literally nothing

Hard to express just how utterly divorced the political rhetoric around porn is from the reality. I've worked in the industry for more than 20 years. I see porn all day long. I have never once seen necrophilia or bestiality on an adult site. But that's what's being used to push antiporn laws.

“The cost of production has definitely gone up,” said @rachelsteeletaboo.bsky.social, a veteran independent creator. She went on to list all the ways that production costs have become, in her words, “really exorbitant.” Talent, location, videographer, testing. "I secretly do the math."

wait until Elon finds out about this attack on western civilization

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

prime example of the way invasive privacy requirements that came for adult content first are making their way to everything else. not pushing back against the false equivalence of "it's like showing your ID at the liquor store!" gets us right here

I really don't think cis people understand how pervasive the attempt to remove trans people from public life is, or pay attention to the organizations that have removed us from public life. it's so frustrating sometimes to have this consistent reminder that yeah, we're mostly on our own out here.

“The KIDS Act is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, claiming to protect young Virginians online when in reality this bill will put children’s social media health in the hands of the companies that are currently attempting to skirt existing state law through their platforms”

"the way we have of thinking of pornography as a distinct category is quite modern, despite the fact that we often think of pornography as ancient - imagine a time when there was no category, and the explicit was simply a part of communication"

"In Western Pennsylvania, you don’t need a degree in Marxist theory to understand exploitation; working-class analysis is passed down like a family heirloom." I wrote about sex work, class, Pittsburgh grit, and @adrierising.bsky.social's new anthology. www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/pitt...

Corporations have been using copyright law to quietly advance new legal restrictions on VPNs. If they're successful, the implications for free speech and anonymity online are huge.

Bluesky is an organizing platform, not an evangelical project.

Congrats to all those groups who got grants to build apps to “combat trafficking,” decades of letting DHS agencies take the lead in “trafficking” investigations—in your own small way, you helped pave the road for violent ICE raids like this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the trans agenda is literally just trans people asking to keep the rights trans people had without much issue until a few years ago, when Republicans started trying to take them away and a frightening amount of Democrats decided some of that was reasonable

“time and again, attacks on lawful adult platforms lead to more dangerous conditions. Sex workers are not served by policies that deny them agency, income and dignity. The fight against non-consensual content can only be won by recognizing the right of sex workers to engage in consensual labor.”

Twitch will now more heavily censored than Benny Hill. The 70s BBC was more scandalous than today’s internet.

One of the conservative architects of the UK's Online Safety Act is suddenly shocked — shocked! — to find that it applies to anti-immigrant content she likes. Censorship is a hungry, hungry, profoundly stupid beast.

The price of femdom and foot fetish content has surged over the past few years. "Kink and fetish are impacted by the same economic forces that drive global markets: the cost of goods, supply and demand and shifting consumer trends."

In case you missed it: Justice Clarence Thomas wants to revive an 1873 anti-vice law championed by chronic masturbator Anthony Comstock to ban abortion pills

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

This is your reminder that sometimes it feels like the world is ending and we're all doomed but all you really need is a sandwich. And probably some water.

I don’t mean to be unkind but I maybe wouldn’t use the word “groomer” in this context

The Comstock Act is back! (guh) The right has been aching to resurrect the zombified laws prohibiting mailing of "obscene" or "immoral" materials (sex toys! contraceptives! LGTBQ+ books!) Glad this was only a dissent, but not thrilled to see it rear its head at SCOTUS.

KNOXVILLE: “Knox County Schools has banned the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Roots", credited with raising awareness about Black American history…”😕🤔 Republican censorship continues. (Alex Haley is buried by his boyhood home in Henning, TN) www.wbir.com/article/news...

This is actually great. Let the people who want a sex-free, LGBTQ-free internet purchase it for themselves and leave the wider internet alone! reason.com/2026/05/13/w...

OF “management” agency is suing three Brazilian models, asserting IP and copyright over models’ image and likenesses. Paid them $150-$300 a week, no additional share of earnings. Insiders say “contract” was not translated into the model’s native language before signing.

just watched a Megyn Kelly clip on the dangers of "sex positivity" and boy are they aching to police your bedroom.

“First Amendment shill” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

I'm just curious, do people on here know that there are more than 2 ways to look at sex work? That we don't have to be victims OR "empowered"? That we can hate our jobs and still deserve decrim & labor rights? That we can be anti-work & anti-capitalist? That you can be a feminist & also support us?

A religious group launch a chatbot help parents report child sextortion. What could go wrong?

"If lawmakers actually want to protect kids, they should stop asking platforms to decide which stories are acceptable and start regulating core design choices that cause harm in the first place, like endless scroll, engagement‑based recommendations, and surveillance‑driven feeds."

👉"A huge amount of industry girls are being deleted at the minute [on Instagram]. We're really being discriminated against. All my content is always in the guidelines... I'm pretty strict."

EU regulators call VPNs "a loophole that needs closing," as more people use them to get around their poorly designed age-verification laws. Their solution? Age-verification for VPN use.

"As attacks on the industry heat up, from banking discrimination to age-verification, cammers are weathering the storm better than other creators." SWR goes deep into the data on camming — and finds some safe harbors against the rampant censorship creators are facing.

Years ago, I used Kickstarter to successfully fund documentary work on the decriminalization of pornography. Crowdfunding was critical because major institutions shy away from funding anything to do with sex. I'd be terrified now.