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		<title>On Backpage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At this point in the SESTApocalypse, as I finally emerge from the paralyzing fog of wtf-wtf-wtf around the death of our business model, we’re all sick of thinking and talking about it. We’re sick of wondering how the hell we’re going to manage, sick of watching high-end workers become paranoiac internet security experts, sick of&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/on-the-death-of-backpage/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On Backpage</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D&#8217;Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Both sex workers&#8217; rights and anti-trafficking organizations have been watching a bill winding its way through Congress for a while. Here at Tits and Sass, we&#8217;ve had plenty to say about it. SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, the Senate version of the bill, would have been disastrous enough&#8212;it would create a trafficking-related loophole&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-workers-are-not-collateral-damage-kate-dadamo-on-fosta-and-sesta/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D&#8217;Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Eros Raid Means None of Us Are Safe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three days ago, Eros-Guide’s call center in Youngsville, North Carolina, was raided by the Department of Homeland Security. On Tuesday morning at 10:30 AM, a dozen black government vehicles converged on parent company Bolma Star Service’s office and data center, beginning a search and seizure operation that would last into the night. They confiscated computers,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-eros-raid-means-none-of-us-are-safe/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Eros Raid Means None of Us Are Safe</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Sex Workers Need To Know About This Month&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking Bills</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As yet another terrifying resurrection of the zombie Republican health care cut bill looms over the nation, sex workers have their own nightmare legislative threat to deal with this month. That&#8217;s because, in the midst of this year&#8217;s iteration of commemorative 9/11 pomp, two anti-trafficking bills passed unanimously in the Senate which would vastly expand&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/what-sex-workers-need-to-know-about-this-months-anti-trafficking-bills/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Sex Workers Need To Know About This Month&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking Bills</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note, 8/31/2017: In light of Trump&#8217;s pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio for his contempt of court conviction re: the order to cease his reign of terror against immigrants in Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County, we&#8217;re posting an updated edition of my September 2014 interview with PJ Starr. I interviewed Starr on her documentary about Marcia Powell,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Alex Andrews on SWOP Behind Bars And Service Work</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-alex-andrews-on-swop-behind-bars-and-service-work/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alex Andrews is the 53-year old lead organizer of both SWOP-Orlando and SWOP Behind Bars and the new North American representative to the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). For almost a decade and a half in her younger years, she did various forms of sex work&#8212;beginning with stripping to supplement her hair dressing&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-alex-andrews-on-swop-behind-bars-and-service-work/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Alex Andrews on SWOP Behind Bars And Service Work</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: AMMAR Rep Maria Riot On Putas Feministas and Participating In The Women&#8217;s Strike</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-ammar-rep-maria-riot-on-putas-feministas-and-participating-in-the-womens-strike/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maria Riot, a member of Argentine sex worker trade union AMMAR, contacted Tits and Sass after the Women&#8217;s Strike this month, eager to talk about how her organization participated in the event in their country. AMMAR has maintained a strong presence in Argentina for more than two decades, and its many bold campaigns have often&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-ammar-rep-maria-riot-on-putas-feministas-and-participating-in-the-womens-strike/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: AMMAR Rep Maria Riot On Putas Feministas and Participating In The Women&#8217;s Strike</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sex Workers And Scabs: Mixed Feelings After The Women&#8217;s Strike</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was a scab on Wednesday during the Women’s Strike. Too broke and disorganized as usual, still messily addicted, I ended up having to see a client. And sure, I wore red, and I limited my shopping to the South Asian woman-owned convenience store down the street, and I tried to allow the organizers’ reassurance&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-workers-and-scabs-mixed-feelings-after-the-womens-strike/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Workers And Scabs: Mixed Feelings After The Women&#8217;s Strike</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>WTF, Backpage?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all knew it was coming. With California Attorney General Kamala Harris filing a second set of multiple charges of pimping and money laundering last month against Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer and shareholders Michael Lacey and James Larkin, and with Ferrer and his shareholders&#8217; Senate hearing coming up last Tuesday before the Permanent Subcommittee on&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/wtf-backpage/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">WTF, Backpage?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Live Freely In This World: Sex Worker Activism In Africa (2016)</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/to-live-freely-in-this-world-sex-worker-activism-in-africa-2016/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A version of this review originally appeared in issue 19 of make/shift magazine In March 2016, South African deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa made a historic announcement of a nationwide scheme to prevent and treat HIV among sex workers, proclaiming, “we cannot deny the humanity and inalienable rights of people who engage in sex work.” Though&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/to-live-freely-in-this-world-sex-worker-activism-in-africa-2016/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>To Live Freely In This World: Sex Worker Activism In Africa</i> (2016)</span></a>]]></description>
		
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