I bet you thought that with the most recent season of 30 Rock all wrapped up, we wouldn’t have any more opportunities to obsess about Tina Fey’s mean-spirited sex worker obsession. But with our girl TF, the sex worker hate is a constantly bubbling stream. So let’s drink deep from her well with this old… Continue reading Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part 3 of Infinity
Not Good Enough To Be Objectified?
I will be the first to admit that my experience in the industry has been super privileged. I was lucky to find a gig that works for me and hasn’t created in me a serious hatred towards the world in general for being kind of terrible and fucked up around race and sexuality. Having said… Continue reading Not Good Enough To Be Objectified?
Turn Off the Blue Light
A friend turned me on this Irish sex worker organization, Turn Off the Blue Light, and their great poster campaign. Prostitution is currently legal in Ireland, but an opposing campaign called Turn Off the Red Light has been picking up momentum in their push for criminalization—ya know, to “end sex trafficking.”
The Week In Links: May 13
Police are now suggesting more than one serial killer has been using Long Island’s Gilgo Beach for hiding (female, often sex worker) victims’ remains. Pictures have been released of two men wanted for questioning about the assault and robbery of two different prostitutes working in midtown Manhattan. (Yes, the article is tone deaf and offensive—yet… Continue reading The Week In Links: May 13
Going Negative in the Champagne Room: Sex Work in Local Campaign Ads
“I knew I was going to go negative. I had to. And part of it is because of that so-called poll. That was one of the primary reasons I had do this”