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Britain s International Slavery Museum has pulled an exhibition on human trafficking in the porn industry after a backlash over the dehumanizing artwork and the involvement of a US lobby group criticized for its hardline stance on the sex industry.
The museum in Liverpool, northern England, came under fire this week for partnering with Exodus Cry, which seeks to stop pornography and commercial sex work and has been denounced by activists for stigmatizing sex workers and trafficking victims.
A tweet by the museum announcing the exhibition on Wednesday attracted dozens of critical responses, including from anti-trafficking campaigners and academics who said the artworks were trauma porn and damaging, sensationalist and dehumanizing .
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The project, ‘Stay Home’: Rethinking the Domestic during the Covid-19 Pandemic, led by Professor Blunt from Queen Mary, is a collaboration between Dr Kathy Burrell and Professor Georgina Endfield (University of Liverpool) and Dr Olivia Sheringham (Birkbeck University of London). Based at the Centre for Studies of Home, the project partners are the Museum of the Home, National Museums Liverpool and the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (IBG).
The four postdoctoral researchers on the project all completed PhDs funded by AHRC, including three at Queen Mary on Collaborative Doctoral Awards (Miri Lawrence and Annabelle Wilkins with the Museum of the Home and Eithne Nightingale with the V&A Museum of Childhood).
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By Chris Long
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image captionArtists like heavy metal singer Kadeem France and those who support them, such as Go Off, Sis Hub are included
An exhibition celebrating the richness of Liverpool s black music scene and its desire to never be one-dimensional has been launched.
Champion One, Champion All! brings together 33 portraits of performers, promoters, producers and others by photographer Anthony Wilde.
He said the aim was to tell people of what they may not know exists .
DJ 2Kind, who is in the show, said it was a great way of showcasing people that don t otherwise get mentioned .