Jennifer Evans published an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Tumblr and Facebook’s troubling new Community Standards policy.
Drawing on her SSHRC-supported research in the history of sexuality and photography, she argues that overreaction to charged images reflects age-old tensions around photography’s place on the border between art and obscenity, and who gets to decide which is which. She suggests that how we deal with the challenge of erotic self-expression says much about how we negotiate democracy itself.