Ang (Kyle Carrozza's victim) is in a dire situation and needs our help. Please help them through this by donating any amount of money you can afford, even if just a few dollars. Don't let them just be someone to "use" for fiction discourse: please show that you actually care.

You can't defend BDSM while being an anti-shipper. You either support people's right to enjoy nsfw fanfiction/fanart about taboo fantasies /and/ BDSM or you support neither, because once you look closer, they are the same thing. How so, you ask? Let's break it down 🧵 #thread

seeing a lot of folks talking about how conservative "pornography" bans are a pretense/prelude to targeting any & all queer or trans art, which is absolutely true also: banning & criminalizing actual honest-to-god porn is fascist in itself. say that too!

"If the bill regarding pornography passes, those found guilty of producing, distributing or possessing pornography would face criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Laws on sensitive topics that only sound good on paper to get a positive emotional reaction out of the average person but that experts know are actually really bad for the victims and will just cause them to be criminalized more than their abusers? No way... I'm shocked... /s

✨ Fandom isn’t activism ✨ Clout will never make you happy, and means nothing in real life ✨ If it doesn’t exist, write/make art of it! Not only will you have something to read, but I guarantee someone out there has been looking for *exactly* that ✨ Nothing has to make sense, it just has to be fun

Unless it involves a real life child or depiction of a real life child, don't refer to fandom works as Child Porn/CSEM or CSAM. Don't refer to people as paedophiles unless they are talking about real children. As someone who works with exploitated children and groups that search for and help them

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

just to be clear about what this means: on meta properties, you can call a trans person mentally ill, and if they respond with the exact same insult, the trans person is the only one violating the policy.

Translation: like conservatives, fancops are mad that proshippers add them to blocklists and leave them with nobody to harass and pile on.

“A minor can’t file for a divorce because they’re not considered old enough to do it. That’s because marriage is considered a contract, and most laws stipulate that only adults can enter into contracts. So, if a minor wants to change their marriage contract, they need an adult to help them do it.”

One of the more toxic things to come out of online culture is the notion that critique of everything is appropriate at all times, under all circumstances, in any context - that your opinion is always worth sharing.

i fucking hate patreon so fucking much writes a story where it's like. hey rape and sexual violence is bad, sexual violence is most pervasive within power vacuums bc it's here where it's most permitted patreon then hides the story for "glorifying" sexual violence

This is a great new years’ resolution for those of you who don’t already have a library card! And if you read e-books only, it will give you access to Libby and/or Hoopla, which are both great!

Original post seems to be deleted, so here's the link again: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

If you dislike something or it makes you uncomfortable, that’s okay! But you don’t need to let the creator know. You don’t need to let anyone know, honestly. You can just ignore it and move on with your life. Fandom is about enjoying the things you like, not bashing the things you hate.

On the blog: I doubled the wordcount of this piece about the awkward place my queer, wholesome, cozy porn game "Opportunity: A Sugar Baby Story" has on the spectrum of Wholesome™ games, and the cowardly hypocrisy of erasing sex from visions of coziness. #biggblog www.bpgamesinc.com/opportunity-...

Leave kinky marginalized people alone.

If this isn’t clear enough, fuck Meta. This is where censorship goes

So bigots who incite harassment and doxxing is fine but fiction you find personally objectionable isn't. Got it.

Sex workers flagged the danger early, because sex work is largely criminalized, and the power of the state wasn't just some theoretical. As trans healthcare is criminalized, once again we're seeing the power the state can wield. So when we warn that your speech is being criminalized...

Puberty blockers have been used safely since 1988 for trans kids. No issues. No one had concerns until GC's raised their ugly heads and decided it was best to eradicate trans people. It's never been about PB's, the agenda is purely and simply ensuring trans people and their healthcare doesn't exist.

Video game characters are not actually real. They don’t bleed, they can’t get their feelings hurt, they can’t be betrayed because they are a collection of pixels and code and words and sound files. The game devs I’m lucky to work with are real people who deserve at least basic human respect.

We need a term for transphobic 4channer types who sound like they might be proship on the surface but are actually just "what i like is ok, what you don't like isn't" like an anti. How about "4chantis"?

Things have been getting worse for artists that create any fictional underage nsfw art. Please be aware of the legal risks and protect yourself as much as you can. Obscenity laws suck.

In the case my lawyer friend defended, the judge refused to even allow the testimony of his expert witness to try to make an argument for the potential artistic and scientific merit of the material his client was charged with possessing and distributing.

The number of §1466A prosecutions have increased sharply in the last five or six years. I have a lawyer friend here on Bluesky who defended one of them, in fact! His client is now in federal prison for the rest of his life, because juries are not sympathetic about this sort of material.

§1466A says that any material that depicts an apparent minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct is illegal if it lacks serious scientific, literary, artistic, or political merit. This is the definition of "obscenity" first codified in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973).

Okay, last week was reminding everyone who thinks all lolicon art is illegal that they're wrong; this week it's apparently time to remind everyone who thinks all lolicon art is legal that they're wrong, too. Content note: discusses depictions of minors engaged in sexual activity.

Just a reminder that I wrote a book on the history of the Yuri genre which was then published by the wonderful publisher @journeypress.bsky.social, which you should definitely buy and support us both! By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga www.yuricon.com/product/bys/

The Comics Code Authority being spearheaded by a well-meaning progressive who tumbled into a Think Of The Children tarpit seems like an important thing for people to consider in conversations about media censorship

Remember, every big IP & everything you love, was originally someone's OC Be cringe. Be free.

‘Radical feminism’, aka the ideology that breeds TERFs and SWERFs, is just Patriarchy in a Feminist Costume ‘Don’t let men control your life! Let *us* control your life instead! *We* want u to restrict ur sex life, clothes, religious practices, & lifestyle for *ur own good*!’

The Hayes Code is one of those absolutely insane bits of cultural history that should be talked about way more. Like it's directly responsible for a lot of the modern american conservative's glorification of the past; a fake world where nobody swears and every hero is a good Christian

Here's a hot take: Most people are unable or unwilling to accept that the only way to truly escape this pattern of ban waves and targeted harassment against queer creators is to reject the idea of "Bad Art".

What glorification of sexual violence IS: electing real live predators to office What glorification of sexual violence is NOT: disenfranchised queers making art of angry wolves fucking

Notice how every argument used against polyamorous people to claim they're not queer and not marginalized is the exact same argument used against asexual and aromantic people to claim they also not queer and not marginalized. All exclusionary rhetoric is correlated.

Please vet your blocklist creators before you implement a mute-list or blocklist. MAGA, foreign troll farms and other bad actors are working day and night to silence our voices.

i will never demand to know anyone’s story. i don’t care if someone’s making transgressive art for fetish purposes either. this attitude of ‘it’s only okay to draw xyz if it’s vent art’ creates a hostile environment for survivors who don’t want to disclose their experiences to a bunch of strangers.

I hate the terminology "promotion of pedophilia" because it means absolutely nothing. Pedophilia is a paraphilia, you either have it or you do not. It can't be "promoted". Did you mean "promotion of child sexual abuse"? Then say that.

Bluesky is a bag of dicks. I have never liked CSAM or interacted with sellers of CSAM. Funnily enough, a shitload of other people (all openly queer for some reason 🤔) also got banned and are being offered the same bullshit claim as Bluesky scrambles to do damage control and PR management.

I think people often don't understand how strict restrictions are on adult sites regarding content moderation for both payment processors and the prosecution of "obscenity"

Coming in July James Welker, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (Hawai'i 2024) uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/transf...

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"Why porn on blueskyyyy waaaah" Man I could say that there's more tools to avoid it than there were on Twitter or that we were here first or that you're being a weird puritan but instead I'll just say shut the fuck up for the love of god you unbearable dweeb.

This is what we mean when we worry about corporations complying in advance. And wherever we see it, we have to call it out and, in this case, let Disney hear from us that this is BS!

The death of tumblr's engagement was marked by an exact date, which was December 17th 2018, the day they banned adult content. You want a platform to succeed for everyone, it has to succeed for this

Speaking personally, growing up in the late 60s early 70s, I remember fantasies even then of being tied up and ravished--when I was in my teens. I was so relieved when I learned about BDSM in my 30s and discovered I wasn't alone in my desires. I don't want to go back to being shamed.

I probably won't repost the entire Megathread on Anti-Shippers and Radfem Rhetoric, so here's a link to it on twitter instead. #thread x.com/purity_cultu...