Like, I had to go strip. I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to fuck me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go to this hotel,’ and I’d drug ni**as up, and I’d rob them. That’s what I used to do! Nothing was motherfucking handed to me, my ni**a. Nothing. Full disclosure: I don’t actually… Continue reading Leave Cardi Alone
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Queer Muslim Sex Worker (2017)
Queer Muslim Sex Worker: These are labels that aren’t supposed to go together, but in the life of Maryam, a genderfluid Pakistani Muslim person living in London, they do. A newly released, independently-funded podcast with this title by journalist Amy Ashenden aims to shed light on how Maryam’s different identities are sexualized, vilified, and ostracized… Continue reading Queer Muslim Sex Worker (2017)
Gia Paige After Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
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… Continue reading Gia Paige After Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
2016’s Best Sex Work Writing
Caty’s picks: Media Coverage of Sex Workers Erases Our Voices by Lily Fury Tits and Sass contributor Lily Fury’s Establishment piece confronts a problem which we’ve devoted thousands of words to on this site: the flattening, sanitizing, and sensationalizing of sex workers’ stories by the mainstream media. The quotes she elicits from interview subjects like Shagasyia… Continue reading 2016’s Best Sex Work Writing
2016’s Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work
Murder in the Bayou, by Ethan Brown Eight murdered woman from Jefferson Davis parish in Louisiana had two things in common: a background in drugs and/or sex work. The police blamed a serial killer. But Brown discovered something else the victims had in common: they had all worked as informants for law enforcement of some… Continue reading 2016’s Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work