Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist writer who has spent at least five years on this site waging misogynist harassment campaigns against sex workers and trans women, as if it were all she had for a content strategy… is finally suspended. pic.twitter.com/lo9sW9niv8 — Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) November 24, 2018 Meghan Murphy was booted from… Continue reading Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism
Author: Juniper Fitzgerald
Juniper is a mother, author, academic, and former sex worker. She is a regular contributor to Tits and Sass and her work has appeared in Pacific Standard, Mutha Magazine, Jezebel, SeaFoam Magazine, and others. She is the author of the first children's book to showcase a sex-working parent, How Mamas Love Their Babies (Feminist Press). Tweet her: @juniperfitz
Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
On August 24, a police officer on duty with the Columbus, Ohio police department named Andrew Mitchell shot and killed sex worker Donna Dalton, leaving her two children motherless. Like others who habitually inflict state sanctioned violence onto the bodies of marginalized people, Mitchell says he “feared” for his life, despite friends describing Dalton as… Continue reading Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
Michael Kimmel, #MeTooSociology, and Feminist Betrayal of Sex Workers In Academia
I’ve made an entire alter ego out of the things people hate most about women: bodily autonomy and self-determination in the form of sex work and body modifications, among other things. The recent allegations against prominent sociologist Michael Kimmel, a man known for his scholarship on masculinity and masculine entitlement, unveil the things people love… Continue reading Michael Kimmel, #MeTooSociology, and Feminist Betrayal of Sex Workers In Academia
Your Mother Is A Whore!
Puttering around the Mojave as a child, I shouted “Tu madres es una puta!” to the delight of my father and other day laborers. Before I could even count in Spanish, I knew how to say, “Your mother is a whore!” The colloquialism revealed two truths about living under a heteropatriarchy: first, a woman’s worth… Continue reading Your Mother Is A Whore!
The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition
When I first identified “The Stormy Daniels Effect” here at Tits and Sass, my theory about the power of sex worker class-consciousness, the Stormy Daniels media cyclone was just beginning to brew. This week, after her 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night, it briefly became a full on news cycle shit storm. Commentary on Daniels… Continue reading The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition