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		<title>Holy Shit: Adventures In Survival Sex Work And Stimulus Checks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Jackie and Alex Jackie’s story, like that of so many, begins with domestic violence, violence she weathers with the help of her sex work. Her son’s father continuously uses abusive financial tactics, severing any ability she’s ever had to gain ground in her life. Her ten-year-long saga has kept her working under the table,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/holy-shit-adventures-in-survival-sex-work-and-stimulus-checks/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Holy Shit: Adventures In Survival Sex Work And Stimulus Checks</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;If U Only Knew How They Were Really Doing Us&#8221;: Inside/Outside Communication During A Pandemic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 20:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Alisha Walker and Red Schulte (written by Red, with editing and considerable input from Alisha) Alisha Walker is a 27-year-old former sex working person originally from Akron, Ohio. She was criminalized for an act of self-defense when a regular client threatened her life and the life of a fellow worker in January 2014. A&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/if-u-only-knew-how-they-were-really-doing-us-inside-outside-communication-during-a-pandemic/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;If U Only Knew How They Were Really Doing Us&#8221;: Inside/Outside Communication During A Pandemic</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/gender-critical-feminism-is-fascism/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juniper Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminist current]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juniper fitzgerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meghan Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swerfs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terfs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist writer who has spent at least five years on this site waging misogynist harassment campaigns against sex workers and trans women, as if it were all she had for a content strategy&#8230; is finally suspended. pic.twitter.com/lo9sW9niv8 — Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) November 24, 2018 Meghan Murphy was booted from&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/gender-critical-feminism-is-fascism/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sex Working While Jewish In America</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/sex-working-while-jewish-in-america/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arabelle Raphael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabelle Raphael]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jewish sex workers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are witnessing the blossoming of a white nationalist nation. Being the person that I am is not easy in the United States right now. It’s not easy for my friends, my family, or millions of Black people, Jews, and LGBTQI people. I’m an Iranian, Tunisian, French and Jewish sex worker. I immigrated from France&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-working-while-jewish-in-america/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Working While Jewish In America</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kavanaugh&#8217;s Confirmation Will Kill Disabled Sex Workers Like Me</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/kavanaughs-confirmation-will-kill-disabled-sex-workers-like-me/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie de Long]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Kavanaugh]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I woke up, looked at my arm, and thought I was in a nightmare. My arms were covered in rashes of tattoo-dark blood blisters so thick my skin looked burgundy-purple from a distance, and bruises, the flesh so swollen it looked like I had been in a car wreck. I had&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/kavanaughs-confirmation-will-kill-disabled-sex-workers-like-me/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Kavanaugh&#8217;s Confirmation Will Kill Disabled Sex Workers Like Me</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/donna-dalton-jill-filipovic-and-the-eternal-lightness-of-anti-sex-worker-feminist-being/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juniper Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jill Filipovic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juniper fitzgerald]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On August 24, a police officer on duty with the Columbus, Ohio police department named Andrew Mitchell shot and killed sex worker Donna Dalton, leaving her two children motherless. Like others who habitually inflict state sanctioned violence onto the bodies of marginalized people, Mitchell says he “feared” for his life, despite friends describing Dalton as&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/donna-dalton-jill-filipovic-and-the-eternal-lightness-of-anti-sex-worker-feminist-being/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Backpage</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/on-the-death-of-backpage/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At this point in the SESTApocalypse, as I finally emerge from the paralyzing fog of wtf-wtf-wtf around the death of our business model, we’re all sick of thinking and talking about it. We’re sick of wondering how the hell we’re going to manage, sick of watching high-end workers become paranoiac internet security experts, sick of&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/on-the-death-of-backpage/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On Backpage</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-stormy-daniels-effect-part-ii-post-sesta-fosta-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juniper Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I first identified “The Stormy Daniels Effect” here at Tits and Sass, my theory about the power of sex worker class-consciousness, the Stormy Daniels media cyclone was just beginning to brew. This week, after her 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night, it briefly became a full on news cycle shit storm. Commentary on Daniels&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-stormy-daniels-effect-part-ii-post-sesta-fosta-edition/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SESTA Vs. Stormy Daniels</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/sesta-vs-stormy-daniels/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Claire Sirene]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Sex Work Moments in Pop Culture History]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fact that porn workers have always been popular scapegoats for the broadest strokes of politics and media is hardly news for those who work in the sex industry. There are myths claiming pornography leads to violence and there is the historical fact that porn workers have protected our civil rights. Protecting our First Amendment&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sesta-vs-stormy-daniels/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">SESTA Vs. Stormy Daniels</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bareback: Re-Opening The Dialogue On Safer Sex In The Age of U=U</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/bareback-re-opening-the-dialogue-on-safer-sex-in-the-age-of-uu/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura LeMoon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bareback sex feels fucking amazing. I know, we’re not supposed to talk about that. We’re not supposed to talk about bareback fucking without following it up with that ubiquitous “but use a condom!” statement. However, many communities face significant barriers to condom use and have very legitimate reasons for foregoing them&#8212;and these are the communities&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/bareback-re-opening-the-dialogue-on-safer-sex-in-the-age-of-uu/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bareback: Re-Opening The Dialogue On Safer Sex In The Age of U=U</span></a>]]></description>
		
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