Mission Statement: IPRIBA seeks to drive social change on the public health issue of image-based abuse. IBA is broadly defined as the non-consensual taking or distributing of a nude or sexual image, including images that are digitally altered or manipulated to include the person’s face on to a nude or sexual image.

Our goals are to:

· Rethink the discourse “revenge pornography” as “image-based abuse” to properly capture its harms

· Educate about the emotional, psychological and economic costs of image-based abuse

· Identify legal strategies that can best address the harms of image-based abuse

· Foster community practices to use digital media ethically

Why “image-based abuse?”

Online sexual violence and harassment are ongoing public health issues which have devastating personal, professional, emotional and legal costs. As Dr. Asher Flynn of Monash University has argued, the term “revenge pornography” is a misnomer that:

1. Fails to capture the range of motivations that underpin this form of abuse

2. Minimizes the harms experienced by victims by likening the abuse to the production of commercial pornography

3. Unduly focuses attention on the content of the image, rather than on the abusive actions of perpetrators.

The framing of language is powerful, and can not only be a deterrent to victims reporting their experiences, but it can shape problematic attitudes and beliefs within the community that blame victims for their actions. It can also lead to an absence or d