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		<title>Activist Spotlight: BARE on the Mass Closure of Strip Clubs in New Orleans</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-bare-on-the-mass-closure-of-strip-clubs-in-new-orleans/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josephine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strippers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activist Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-trafficking hysteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BARE]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An unholy mix of gentrification and trafficking hysteria created the perfect political climate to allow law enforcement to shutter several New Orleans strip clubs, leaving scores of dancers unemployed. The Bourbon Alliance of Responsible Entertainers rapidly sprung into action; they disrupted the mayor&#8217;s press conference and organized the Unemployment March the following night, which drew&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-bare-on-the-mass-closure-of-strip-clubs-in-new-orleans/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: BARE on the Mass Closure of Strip Clubs in New Orleans</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Velvet Collar, The Rentboy Raid Inspired Comic Book</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/velvet-collar-the-rentboy-raid-inspired-comic-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dale Corvino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Corvino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Davenport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay male sex workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeffrey hurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male sex workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queer culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red umbrella project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rentboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rentboy.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[velvet collar]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Velvet Collar is a comic book series written and produced by worker Bryan Knight and drawn by queer comic artist Dave Davenport. It depicts the lives of five male sex workers. In the course of the series’ narrative, an escort listing service is shut down by the feds&#8212;a thinly-veiled representation of the Rentboy raid and&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/velvet-collar-the-rentboy-raid-inspired-comic-book/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>Velvet Collar</i>, The Rentboy Raid Inspired Comic Book</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activist Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Prison Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Leigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaclyn Dairman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcia Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maricopa county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monica Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NO HUMAN INVOLVED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy Plews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PJ Starr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison abolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison industrial complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respectability politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Joe Arpaio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SWOP-Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against sex workers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note, 8/31/2017: In light of Trump&#8217;s pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio for his contempt of court conviction re: the order to cease his reign of terror against immigrants in Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County, we&#8217;re posting an updated edition of my September 2014 interview with PJ Starr. I interviewed Starr on her documentary about Marcia Powell,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Alex Andrews on SWOP Behind Bars And Service Work</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-alex-andrews-on-swop-behind-bars-and-service-work/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SWOP Behind Bars]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alex Andrews is the 53-year old lead organizer of both SWOP-Orlando and SWOP Behind Bars and the new North American representative to the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). For almost a decade and a half in her younger years, she did various forms of sex work&#8212;beginning with stripping to supplement her hair dressing&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-alex-andrews-on-swop-behind-bars-and-service-work/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Alex Andrews on SWOP Behind Bars And Service Work</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Joke Has To Be Funny: An Interview With Vee Chattie On Their New Podcast, The Comedy Whore</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-joke-has-to-be-funny-an-interview-with-vee-chattie-on-their-new-podcast-the-comedy-whore/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie McMuffin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maggie Mcmuffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Comedy Whore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vee Chattie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Hooker Jokes Aren't Funny]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the best people I have met through sex worker groups is undoubtedly Vee Chattie. We met in person a couple of years ago in the back seat of a car on the way to a hearing at the Capitol. Vee develops hard-hitting performance art and organizes activist events, but the bulk of their&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-joke-has-to-be-funny-an-interview-with-vee-chattie-on-their-new-podcast-the-comedy-whore/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Joke Has To Be Funny: An Interview With Vee Chattie On Their New Podcast, <i>The Comedy Whore</i></span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everybody Has Their Own Hustle: An Interview With Jacq The Stripper</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/everybody-has-their-own-hustle-an-interview-with-jacq-the-stripper/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strippers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female customers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacq the Stripper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacqueline Frances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misogyny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jacqueline Frances has drawn attention and acclaim with her deceptively simple cartoons of everyday strip club doings.  The simplicity of her comics draws you in, and before you know it, you&#8217;re seeing men and masculinity from a sex workers&#8217;  view that few people can bring themselves to take on consciously. Frances toured last year with her&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/everybody-has-their-own-hustle-an-interview-with-jacq-the-stripper/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Everybody Has Their Own Hustle: An Interview With Jacq The Stripper</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gia Paige After Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/gia-paige-on-regretting-hot-girls-wanted-turned-on/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josephine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gia Paige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Girls Wanted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Bauer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rashida Jones]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On producer Rashida Jones reflected on the mistakes that were made with the original documentary: “I think that many people within the industry felt like the movie marginalized and further stigmatized sex work, which was not our intention at all.” It’s perplexing to reckon&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/gia-paige-on-regretting-hot-girls-wanted-turned-on/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gia Paige After <i>Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On</i></span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: AMMAR Rep Maria Riot On Putas Feministas and Participating In The Women&#8217;s Strike</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-ammar-rep-maria-riot-on-putas-feministas-and-participating-in-the-womens-strike/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activist Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMMAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decriminalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgina Orellano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Riot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex worker history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's strike]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maria Riot, a member of Argentine sex worker trade union AMMAR, contacted Tits and Sass after the Women&#8217;s Strike this month, eager to talk about how her organization participated in the event in their country. AMMAR has maintained a strong presence in Argentina for more than two decades, and its many bold campaigns have often&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-ammar-rep-maria-riot-on-putas-feministas-and-participating-in-the-womens-strike/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: AMMAR Rep Maria Riot On Putas Feministas and Participating In The Women&#8217;s Strike</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Starting To Show Up: An Interview With SWOP National&#8217;s President, Savannah Sly</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/starting-to-show-up-an-interview-with-swop-nationals-president-savannah-sly/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Holtzclaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intersectional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respectability politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Savannah Sly]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[SWOP (Sex Worker Outreach Project) is the most recognized name in sex workers’ rights advocacy in the U.S. Currently, they have over 25 chapters around the country, and a board of directors—SWOP National. The only requirements to be a chapter are that March 3rd (International Sex Worker Rights Day) and December 17th (International Day To&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/starting-to-show-up-an-interview-with-swop-nationals-president-savannah-sly/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Starting To Show Up: An Interview With SWOP National&#8217;s President, Savannah Sly</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Bonnie On Violence And Endurance</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-bonnie-on-violence-and-endurance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robin D]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[criminalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gigi thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harm reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robin d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structural police violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swop maryland]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: This interview contains graphic descriptions of police violence and rape, imprisonment, and domestic abuse. Bonnie is a veteran sex workers’ rights activist who has done outreach work in the D.C. area since 2001. She was a HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) client who lived on the streets in Maryland. Later, she was inspired&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-bonnie-on-violence-and-endurance/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Bonnie On Violence And Endurance</span></a>]]></description>
		
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