The numbers are staggering. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one out of every four women has or will experience domestic violence. If those numbers are correct, it is guaranteed that you know someone that has been or is a victim. Domestic violence isn’t always physical; it can be verbal, emotional, or even… Continue reading Where To Get Help
Category: This Time, It’s Personal
The Second Shittiest Thing About Being Abused: Survivor Solidarity And Getting Out
I actually didn’t know who Christy Mack was until I started seeing articles about her attack flying around the internet last week. But her story is one that is familiar to me. Intimately familiar. I stripped for eight years, in a dozen clubs across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, and Georgia. I met… Continue reading The Second Shittiest Thing About Being Abused: Survivor Solidarity And Getting Out
Sex Work and Partner Violence: How We’re Forced To Negotiate Our Own Abuse
Editor’s note: This post was originally erroneously attributed to Victoria Joy. The piece is actually by Ruby Rue. Victims of violence are more likely to have experienced violence at the hands of someone they know. The same goes for sex workers. There seems to be a lot more concern about stranger-danger in the industry than… Continue reading Sex Work and Partner Violence: How We’re Forced To Negotiate Our Own Abuse
On Surviving Sex Work
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Tap Dancing For The Man: Leaving Academia For Sex Work
Leaving academia isn’t just for sex workers, but there are a good number of former academics among our contributors and readers. Once you’ve done sex work and experienced the particular freedoms it affords, academia’s constraints can seem more chafing and its endgame more pointless. This post in particular prompted us to have some of them… Continue reading Tap Dancing For The Man: Leaving Academia For Sex Work