The name Colby Keller might be unfamiliar to you if you don’t follow mainstream gay media (or don’t watch gay porn, I guess). But if that’s your thing then you have surely heard by now that Keller, a ten-year veteran porn performer, has decided to buy a van and cross the country (and maybe Canada)… Continue reading You Could Touch Him in 50 Places: An Interview with Colby Keller
Category: Interviews
Tap Dancing For The Man: Leaving Academia For Sex Work
Leaving academia isn’t just for sex workers, but there are a good number of former academics among our contributors and readers. Once you’ve done sex work and experienced the particular freedoms it affords, academia’s constraints can seem more chafing and its endgame more pointless. This post in particular prompted us to have some of them… Continue reading Tap Dancing For The Man: Leaving Academia For Sex Work
Love and Frosting: A Conversation With Portland’s Cupcake Girls
“But how should I address the invitations?” the young brunette across from me asked. “Husband first, so ‘Mr and Mrs blank,’” advised the older woman next to her, and everyone nodded. I blinked and made a note, tried not to look confused or judgmental. I was at a planning meeting for It’s a Cupcake Christmas!,… Continue reading Love and Frosting: A Conversation With Portland’s Cupcake Girls
Discussing Other People’s Lives: Social Work and Student Sex Workers
Adrienne Graf and Annie O’Niell are two social workers whose focus has been sex workers. O’Niell has experience as a sex worker and Graf is an ally. Together, they have facilitated workshops at the university, state and national level on how to work with students in the sex industry. Here, they have a conversation about… Continue reading Discussing Other People’s Lives: Social Work and Student Sex Workers
Activist Spotlight Interview: Melissa Gira Grant on Playing The Whore and Policing The Policers, Part Two
Part one of this interview is here. You encapsulate the tired terms of the sex worker debate, in which the token sex worker is asked reductifying questions ad nauseaum: Is sex work exploitative or empowering? Is it violence against women? How can we help women (always women, and always cis women, never sex working men… Continue reading Activist Spotlight Interview: Melissa Gira Grant on Playing The Whore and Policing The Policers, Part Two