Immani Love’s “Exotic Dancer (Playground Poetry)” is “Erotic Poetry performed on a public playground with [a] trained pole dancer.” Take the four minutes and treat yourself to this amazing poem song. Trust us. Buzzfeed interviewed Melissa Gira Grant about the tax-filing habits of sex workers. Saskatchewan’s anti-strip club laws are so strict, Saskatoon won’t even… Continue reading The Week In Links: April 13
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The Week in Links: April 6
Churches in Kentucky and Tennessee have joined forces to protest a bar on the state border that features gogo/pole dancers. A local pastor has stated that he hopes to keep the community safe “from the filth and degradation that just ruins people.” Did we mention that these aren’t even strippers, just gogo dancers? Meanwhile, an Ohio… Continue reading The Week in Links: April 6
The Week in Links: March 30
Dave Navarro will be a judge at tonight’s Hooker Beauty Pageant, a burlesque performance at the Dragonfly Bar in Los Angeles. According to curator Natalia Fabia, hooker is defined as “someone who sells one’s talents and abilities, talent, or name for money, (but it also means) a rad, strong, talented, tough, colorful, independent, stylish, and beautiful… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 30
The Week in Links: March 23
SWOP-NYC wrote an open letter to NOW-NYC requesting that the organization use more sensitive language when referencing the sex workers who were found dead on Long Island over the past few years. In a tweet on March 19, NOW-NYC had referred to the victims as “sacks of bones.” “Would you ever consider befriending a prostitute or a… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 23
The Week in Links: March 16
The Ms. Magazine blog gave us a shout out in a post this week about sex work organizations. Thank, Ms! Rick Santorum’s new pet social issue: the “pandemic” of pornography. He has stated, if elected, that he’ll work toward a ban on hard-core pornography (in addition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and the “absolute” separation of church and state). He… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 16