No One In The Porn Industry Likes A Broken Vagina by Andre Shakti 2017 was a year suffused with the healthcare issue, so this Andre Shakti piece was never more needed. There’s plenty of discussion about the emotional labor of sex work, but very little talk about the physical labor: what is it like being… Continue reading 2017’s Best Writing By Sex Workers
2017’s Best Writing and Reporting on Sex Work
TPM’s Josh Marshall Tweets Out Porno Link to Shock of Political Media World by J.D. Durkin Maybe this isn’t vital reporting, or even reporting at all. But it certainly was a sneak peek into the circus 2017 would be. Melania Trump’s $150 million libel suit is based on a falsehood by Callum Borchers Can’t tell… Continue reading 2017’s Best Writing and Reporting on Sex Work
Black Trans Sex Worker Leaders Reflect On December 17th
For this International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers, Tits and Sass asked two Black trans sex worker leaders what the sex workers’ rights movement should be doing in the face of the epidemic of violence against sex working trans women of color. Ceyenne Doroshow is an activist role model in the trans sex… Continue reading Black Trans Sex Worker Leaders Reflect On December 17th
SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet
You can always count on a corporation to look out for its own interests. An existential threat to their business model will even trump the good PR that comes from beating on everyone’s favorite marginalized punching bags, sex workers). So, until recently, major tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Google opposed SESTA,the Stop Enabling… Continue reading SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet
Thinking About Cyntoia And My Black Body
Content warning: this piece contains accounts of child sexual abuse and violence against a sex working minor as well as discussion of structural violence. I spent my teen years selling sex on the internet. I grew up on the Craigslist Erotic Services section, finding men who would pay me for something I didn’t take seriously… Continue reading Thinking About Cyntoia And My Black Body