The biggest news for sex workers this week was, of course, California, where voters passed two new pieces of legislation invasive of sex workers’ privacy. voted to pass Proposition 35, the frightening anti-trafficking bill that may make sex offenders of a whole lot of people, and Los Angeles County voters passed Measure B, which would require… Continue reading The Week In Links: November 9
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The Week in Links: November 2
During a dressing room brawl at Hot Bodies in Austin TX, a stripper put out a man’s eye with her shoe. She’s been booked on assault charges, and the arrest warrant stated “In the manner of its use, the high heel shoe could have been a deadly weapon.” The New York Times sided with the dissenting… Continue reading The Week in Links: November 2
The Week In Links: October 26
File under We Saw This Coming: Trend pieces about sex surrogates ahead of the theatrical release of The Sessions feature sex surrogates insisting that what they do isn’t prostitution. An undercover cop posed as exotic dancer to bust pill-pushing doctor in NJ. Rachel Aimee responds to some of the content in the Narrative.ly feature about… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 26
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
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