Beyond Collages, Its Like Mashups! But With Photos!

Beyond collages, it’s like mashups! But with photos!

Photo Collages by Justin Peters

This.

But yes, by all means, talk about historical and societal context. Analyze the nuances of the language, the subtleties of the sexual choreography. I absolutely challenge you to do that—

—and then I challenge you to do it without having a text to refer to.

Good fucking luck, my friend.

This is the most persuasive argument I’ve heard that we need to keep open access to works which many might find offensive or harmful. Sold. And also kind of surprised, because I hadn’t heard it from quite that angle before.

Now, there’s a whole separate conversation about ways to have the debate about those offensive works; about the burden that often falls on marginalized people who find a work harmful to ask that it not to be performed in public or promoted as awesome by influential people or paid for, thereby supporting the production of more, and how that burden frequently compounds the experience of marginalization. Or about the limits of free speech when hosting that speech might directly put at risk the security and safety of people in the community that hosts it.

But those are conversations not related to whether works should exist on AO3 or be findable through tags. And I sense that part of the problem with this debate is that it’s all getting conflated. Which is why I love this post.

the working title of this was “censor this, bitches“ which I decided was maybe was a little undiplomatic so I decided to give it this massive passive-aggressive title instead

yeah, yeah I know I already reblogged “autobiography” earlier today which is basically about a thousand times more exactly what I want to say than any essay could possibly be BUT then I went and actually read what people are arguing here and you know what

SOOOOOOOO

There are two things that are being collapsed in this argument that we really, really cannot afford to collapse. That is:

For AO3 to be a sustainable project long-term, there needs to be a comprehensive policy in place designed to prevent its users from harassment and abuse; and

Some content that people would like to host on AO3 is, to some people, vile or offensive.

Both of these things are true. However, it does not follow from (1) that we need to regulate or restrict the content of the works hosted on the Archive to ensure the content referred to in (2) doesn’t make it onto the Archive. People seem to be taking it for granted that (1) means banning all that stuff in (2), and that’s wrong.

(cw for high-level references to the existence of rape, underage sex, and anti-Semitism; as well as one marginally more specific reference to kinky sex)

Keep reading

was cruisin my tl & this is so fucking important

I don’t...get the product either? But I love it?

Wait tho pls tell me non british people have also seen this advert bc it’s amazing and very important to me

When you’re in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, that’s the best feeling in the world. 

By coming together, all of us, by pledging our solidarity, our friendship, we’ve made history.

Pride (2014)

The homeowner said the buck shows up everyday, so they gave him a bed, too.