Explicit Comics, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech - Video

Marginalized voices are under fire across the world evident in surging book bans, payment processors blocking the legal sale of erotic work, and laws seeking to suppress erotic work and erode internet privacy. In the US, the most targeted works are those by people of color or queer authors, or featuring characters of color, trans, queer, and nonbinary characters, disabled characters, non-Christian religious views, or include sex scenes, sex work, or sexual health information, especially on abortion access.

Join host Iris Jay with cartoonists Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer, https://redgoldsparkspress.com/) , Taylor Titmouse (Hunger's Bite, https://taylor-titmouse.itch.io/), and PomPoison (Little Death, https://linktr.ee/pompoison) as they discuss censorship in the comics scene and their personal experiences, triumphs, and struggles creating explicit comics.

I Stand With The Banned art by Johanna Taylor (https://www.johannamation.com/).

Links mentioned in the panel:

- https://taylor-titmouse.itch.io/
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/hunger-s-bite-taylor-robin/afef9b9ab018a942?ean=9781454950240&next=t&next=t&affiliate=117708
- https://linktr.ee/pompoison
- https://littledeathcomic.com
- https://frictionpress.com/velvetskin
- https://ddmarket.online/
- https://pencanada.ca/
- https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/
- https://ccla.org/
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfthoxfFAbBpGcQUlpsRbmeVXscZgFyWk282JlqqVvxcOOvBQ/viewform
- https://www.patreon.com/maiakobabe
- Information about HR 7661, the federal book banning bill: https://redgoldsparks.tumblr.com/post/809996257163624448/please-call-your-reps-and-tell-them-to-vote-no-on
- A script for calling/emailing about HR 7661: https://action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661
- https://blog.itsnero.com/webguide