The Week In Links: October 19

Seattle feminist group Grrl Army made the news with a spectacular bright pink graffiti paint job on a closed motel. Slogans promoting sex workers’ rights covered the building. The video above comes from KOMO. British activist Kat Banyard has bad feels about sex work (“The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism”). Leave… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 19

Dear Tits & Sass: Overly Attached Client Edition

Dear Tits and Sass, Last February, I met Phil off a sugar dating site. He was extremely effusive in quasi-personal affection towards me during our first meeting, to the point that I realized he was an attachment risk and considered not seeing him again. (He’d had a recent and extremely nasty divorce.) But I agreed to… Continue reading Dear Tits & Sass: Overly Attached Client Edition

The Week In Links: October 12

It took us a while to realize that the joke in this ad was “bust a nut” and not “crack a nut.” Narratively has a feature on sex work activism that features our own “Ask A Pro,” Sarah Patterson. The Naussau County NY District Attorney wrote about her decision to prohibit prosecutors in her office… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 12

The Week In Links: October 6

Boy, it was a big week for Nick Kristof, what with the PBS premiere of his “Half The Sky” documentary. We know you all would much rather hear some actual sex workers talk about the damage he’s done in the guise of saving women. President Obama’s speech at the Clinton Global Initiative last week also… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 6