“I was never accused of having done anything wrong, but rather I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”—Paul Davis “What’s the difference between a hooker and a politician? There’s some things a hooker just won’t do.”—an old joke I first heard from a lobbyist Regardless of your opinion on reproductive justice, single-payer… Continue reading Going Negative In The Champagne Room: 2014 Gubernatorial Edition
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More Than Silence: Tjhisha Ball, Angelia Mangum, and the Erasure of Black Sex Workers
Tjhisha Ball and Angelia Mangum: Two names you should know but probably don’t. Tjhisha Ball and Angelia Mangum were 19 and 18 years old, respectively, two young women who were brutally murdered on September 18th. Their bodies were found in Duval County, Florida, reportedly thrown off an overpass, by passerby in the wee hours of… Continue reading More Than Silence: Tjhisha Ball, Angelia Mangum, and the Erasure of Black Sex Workers
I Did Not Consent To Being Tokenized
I am a sex worker who was coerced into doing work I felt violated by, and I am horrified by SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Reactionary Feminists) who insist that all sex work is by nature coerced and non-consensual. Recently, I’ve noticed a disturbing rise in anti-sex work rhetoric that rests on the premise that all… Continue reading I Did Not Consent To Being Tokenized
The Role of Humor In Sex Worker Activism: Should We Always Be So Goddamn Hilarious?
If you’ve been hanging out in the digital sex work community for long enough, you’ve learned a handful of things. One is that some men really like to interrupt your conversations uninvited to assume that you do your work for the sake of your sexual liberty, and to assure you that they’re totally cool with… Continue reading The Role of Humor In Sex Worker Activism: Should We Always Be So Goddamn Hilarious?
Don’t Hit Women Or Whores: Whorephobic Domestic Violence and Its Discontents
“Don’t hit women or whores” reads an oh-so-helpful comment under one of the many reports of the brutal assault and attempted rape of porn actress and dancer Christy Mack by her ex partner, War Machine (formerly known as John Koppenhaver), this past week. And that’s one of the nice ones. Most of the not-nice ones… Continue reading Don’t Hit Women Or Whores: Whorephobic Domestic Violence and Its Discontents