I’ve been reading Tracy Quan since before I was a sex worker, when a prequel to Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl was serialized on Salon.com, and I’ve been chummy with her online since 2003, when she graciously replied to my e-mails. I’ve learned so much from Tracy, her callgirl comedy-of-manners novels, and the quirky… Continue reading A Nation of Sex Workers: An Interview with Tracy Quan
Category: Activism
Activist Spotlight: Nine, on Bad Policies and Holding Abolitionists To Account
Nine is an itinerant writer from Northern Ireland, who spent several years working at an outreach project for sex workers in Scotland before being made redundant in 2009. Recently, she has written and spoken against attempts by politicians and feminist organisations to criminalise the purchase of sex in Scotland, most notably in the barnstorming essay… Continue reading Activist Spotlight: Nine, on Bad Policies and Holding Abolitionists To Account
Interview: Sophia St. James
Sophia St James is all smiles. The former stripper and current queer pornographer, activist, and sex educator, had taken a seat on the soft couch of the quiet, NE Portland feminist bookstore. The perpetually busy James had found a few minutes from her day to meet with me and I was thrilled. So, how would… Continue reading Interview: Sophia St. James
Sex Work and Storytelling at “Sex and Justice”
Long ago before I had ever begun to use the term “sex work” or could even have guessed at what aå Sex and Justice conference would entail, I began processing my experiences in sex/work by telling my story. For a long time I kept that story in the place where I had left it: journals, then later… Continue reading Sex Work and Storytelling at “Sex and Justice”
Quote Of The Week
The TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] is obsessed with dividing feminism at all costs and commenting negatively on women’s sexuality. sex-shaming is a historical patriarchal tool to remind those of us who are women of the position the patriarchy wants us to hold: inferior. the TERF is loud about sex work being evil, ignoring that for many trans… Continue reading Quote Of The Week