Dear Tits and Sass, I’ve been a worker for around ten years now and have been full time for around the latter half of that. Navigating having a partner while being a worker is nothing new to me. However, I’ve been with my current partner for around a year and over the last few months I’ve… Continue reading Dear Tits and Sass: Boundaries
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Rest In Power, Sharmus Outlaw
Sharmus Outlaw, longtime trans, HIV, and sex workers’ rights activist, died in hospice care at the age of 50 on July 7th from lymphoma. Her death was hastened by systematic healthcare bias: she endured a long delay in processing her Medicaid application because doctors were “confused” by her gender marker, and faced numerous other difficulties… Continue reading Rest In Power, Sharmus Outlaw
Porno-Enlightenment: How Pornography Propagates A Liberal Worldview
“Modern industry, in overturning the economical foundation on which was based the traditional family, and the family labour corresponding to it, had also unloosened all traditional ties.” – Karl Marx, Capital I open up my browser and type “pornhub.com” into the search bar. Once the page loads, I hover my cursor over “videos” and click… Continue reading Porno-Enlightenment: How Pornography Propagates A Liberal Worldview
The Right To Survive: The Case of Alisha Walker
by Red Schulte and Cathryn Berarovich of the Support Ho(s)e Collective Alisha Walker was just 20 years old when she had to defend herself against a client who was drunk and violent. She was 22 when she was convicted of second degree murder and 15 years in prison for defending both her own life and the… Continue reading The Right To Survive: The Case of Alisha Walker
Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus (2016)
Canadian comic artist Chester Brown is probably the most well-known punter-writer our there. His latest, Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus: Prostitution And Religious Obedience In The Bible, is an analysis of the Bible as a graphic novel. (Maybe Brown likes illustration because most clients need pictures in their books.) This review of his newly… Continue reading Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus (2016)