The totally irrelevant cover of the New York Post, Wednesday, August 10
Melissa Petro (once deemed “hooker teacher” by the New York Post) responds to the Post‘s Wednesday headline.
Wendy Babcock, Toronto-based sex work activist and law student, passed away on Tuesday.
There are only five days left to donate to the SWAAY Epic Step billboard.
Irish sex workers rights organization Turn Off the Blue Light recently claimed victory in a dispute with Google. The group had paid for an advertisement with Google AdWords, but found that, beginning in May, people looking for their site through the search engine were instead diverted to anti-sex work campaign websites.
A patron at the Pretty Woman Lounge, a Detroit strip club, shot and killed a club employee after being denied admission.
Even though she turned down an offer from Vivid to appear in an adult movie, apparently most Americans still think Pippa Middleton is a porn star.
Three American pole dancers and one Argentinean took home top honors at the International Pole dancing Competition last weekend in Denver.
Lee Grace Dougherty and her two brothers, who allegedly shot a cop in Florida and robbed a bank in Georgia, were caught Wednesday morning in Colorado. Since Dougherty worked as a stripper in Cocoa Beach, some clever writers at the New York Post (perhaps the same ones who wrote the “stox” headline above?) were sure to make up puns about her “rack” in reporting the story. [READ MORE]
Have you heard that SWAAY has an Epic Step campaign to create the first sex workers’ rights billboard in America? Epic Step is like the Kickstarter of billboards, so they need your donations in order to make this happen. Just look at how many anti-sex work billboards there are.
10. I feel like twitter is to blame for anything starting with “Dear,” including ”Dear John” billboards in and surrounding Chicago, IL. “Dear Starbucks,” “Dear Netflix,” “Dear rain,” “Dear Man Soliciting Sex, We’re watching you in your sleep. Love, Chicago PD.”
photo by Chuck Berman via Chicago Tribune
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Swiss fragrance company Givaudan is working on a new scent for Lady Gaga, which will make you smell like an “expensive hooker.”