On Dec. 20 the Senate passed Senate Resolution 439: “A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the ‘adult entertainment’ section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com.” I am clearly weeks late responding to this. This happened in the flurry of holidays, travel, and the Sandy Hook… Continue reading The Worst New Year’s Resolution
Author: Jessie Nicole
Jessie Nicole is a sex workers rights activist, occasional producer of digital media, and quasi-academic located in Los Angeles, CA. While focusing on sex work, her work is situated in a broader struggle to dismantle all forms of oppression. As a writer and community organizer she explores the connections between lived experience, cultural theory, media production, and activist projects. Jessie believes firmly in the power of personal narratives and storytelling as tools for social change, which helped lead her to earn a Masters in Literature in 2009. When she is not trying to change the world, she can usually be found rooting loudly for Chicago sports teams, reading anything from romance novels to academic journals, or dancing around shamelessly to pop music. Jessie Nicole is the current director of Sex Workers Outreach Project - Los Angeles, and lives with her partner and their turtle Walter in West Hollywood.
American Courtesans (2012)
The tagline for American Courtesans describes it as a “documentary that takes you into the lives of American Sex Workers” and telling “a different kind of American story…” The film is (thankfully) less ambitious in scope, focusing on high-end escorts instead of the entirety of the sex trades. What American Courtesans does, and does powerfully,… Continue reading American Courtesans (2012)