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Dear Tumblr: Banning "Adult Content" Won't Make Your Site Better But It Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
Katharine Trendacosta and Jillian C. York
Dec 5 2018
March 9, 2016: More transparency needed
Mar 9 2016
In this week's roundup: The ACLU calls for more transparency, and Facebook censors a sexual health video.
Of course we should be able to use social networks to protest against puritanical views about women’s bodies. And we need to defy the idea that the only acceptable images of women are those selected to suit the male gaze, or that men (or tech firms!) can be the ones to decide whether our nipples are sexual or not.
Leigh Alexander
Why did Facebook censor this sexual health video we made?
Daily Life
Mar 8 2016
I didn't want to write an article about censorship. I wanted to write an article about how a group of feminist cabaret singers of diverse sizes and sexualities ...