Comments on: More Than Silence: Tjhisha Ball, Angelia Mangum, and the Erasure of Black Sex Workers

By: A Round Table on Police Violence Against Sex Workers of Color: Part I — Tits and Sass

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:12:39 +0000

[…] sex worker events where we meet to address act up strategies when tragedies like the deaths of Angelia Mangum and Tjhisha Ball happen. We need to form a sex workers’ union of sorts, forming a committee that addresses a […]

By: Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection — Tits and Sass

Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection — Tits and Sass — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:00:32 +0000

[…] The silence of national feminist organizations is not out of the ordinary. There was no national outcry in 2006 when Texas police officers beat a 12-year-old girl outside her home on the assumption that she was a sex worker, nor when hotel employees called police on two Black trans women they suspected of being sex workers. Few made a peep after the recent Ashton O’Hara trial, a Black trans person who was stabbed and run over with a car. National sex worker groups didn’t organize around the still unsolved murders of two Black sex workers in Jacksonville, Florida. […]

By: Arguing Right(s) | Crow's head fell off like a leaf.

Arguing Right(s) | Crow's head fell off like a leaf. — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:54:17 +0000

[…] prison industrial complex. And if you aren’t already aware of Peechington Marie’s workpiece on the erasure of Black sex workers in pretty much every discussion to do with sex work , you need to […]

By: The Ten Biggest Sex Work Stories of 2014, U.S. Edition

The Ten Biggest Sex Work Stories of 2014, U.S. Edition — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:01:35 +0000

[…] Two young Black strippers were murdered in Florida in September. Most reporting on the murders erased or stigmatized their sex work, noted Tits and Sass contributor Peechington Marie. Later on, she also wrote for Ebony about the […]

By: adt

adt — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:29:55 +0000

oshun, it’s the sex worker part that’s really important, not their race. i thought i should mention it since you obviously missed the point.
your comment made you appear racist, which of course i really hope you hadn’t intended

By: Oshun

Oshun — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:17:02 +0000

In reply to Pye. No. No ma'am. You may NOT derail this article about the plight of Black Sex Workers with the story of Jasmine.

By: Rape Culture, Race, and the Privileged Voices, Pt. 1 | Sex and the Sanctuary

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:43:47 +0000

[…] I am good and pure even as a black Christian woman. I am a part of those darker women who, when their bodies are thrown off an overpass and it is discovered that they were strippers the stories go…. Meanwhile the white sex workers who face a similar fate have their stories plastered everywhere. I […]

By: That Was the Week That Was (#440) | The Honest Courtesan

That Was the Week That Was (#440) | The Honest Courtesan — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:03:13 +0000

[…] Peechington Marie on the lack of media concern for Tjhisha Ball, Angelia Mangum and black sex worker…: […]

By: Tjhisha & Angelia A Summary and Update | Lady Fescennine

Tjhisha & Angelia A Summary and Update | Lady Fescennine — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:28:42 +0000

[…] morning Whorephobia’s own Peech released her won article on titsandsass.com a long piece but worth every minute to really dig into. Do yourself a favor, pause here and read […]

By: Pye

Pye — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:29:50 +0000

What a great and important piece. When Jasmine was murdered there was a big response, but not in Sweden where the situation was very much what you described here. Both me and Jasmine’s mother begged the media to write that she was a sex worker as that was the main reason for everything that happened to her, but the media refused to mention it in some misled act of respect, or so they claimed. There was only one article in Swedish media that told the real story that was written by one of “our” journalist. The protest generated one news story in a local paper in the south. There was a little bit more written on social media. However me and her mom were under constant attack of an endless rows of cyber bullies disguised as concerned citizens wanting to “protect her memory” it went on for months and was awful. We were accused of anything you could possibly imagine. For those of us who knew her turning it into activism was the best way we could honor her. To this day the truth about what really happened to her is never mentioned and as a result the social services that started the whole charade has not yet reported themselves to the authorities, something they must do under these circumstances. And they get away with it because if it was just a crazy act of domestic violence they are in the clear and that’s exactly how media chose to describe it. They took her kids because of sex work and placed them with a convicted violent man that later killed her, they even provided him with the knife. But in Sweden that story will never be told. The compact silence about Jasmine being a sex worker has in reality only served one purpose, to protect the very people that should be held responsible after years of discriminatory treatment, lies and multiple acts of wrong doing that forced her to interact with a person she thought might kill her. And now we just heard that another young sex worker, in the same small city, is having her parental skills questioned, it just goes on. And it goes on because the silencing of the truth makes it possible.