Beyond the Content Takedown: A new position paper by Glitch

Today, we are sharing our position paper on non-criminal redress for intimate image abuse Beyond the Content Takedown: Non-criminal redress for intimate image abuse.

We have been thinking and working on the issue of intimate image abuse (IIA), and transformative justice approaches since 2023 when we devised a roundtable with the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) on Black women’s experiences with deepfakes and other artificially generated formats of non-consensual intimate image abuse.

As intimate image abuse accelerates along fault lines we've consistently called attention to, government aversion to accountability leaves Black women and Black gender-expansive people subject to predictable and preventable violence. We operationalise Black feminist principles to find ways to effect the change we cannot live without, moving beyond battles for the bare minimum by adopting transformative justice models that abound outside our beleaguered carceral system.

Our position paper establishes non-criminal redress for intimate image abuse as a human rights issue, and one that exceeds the capacity and desire of the criminal justice system to address. We put forward non-criminal redress schemes as viable, accessible and already-operational mechanisms for healing and remediation, allowing those historically and presently marginalised under carcerality to pursue alternatives.

You can read the position paper here.