I love Nickelback. Since the dawn of time it has been quite trendy to hate them. But with last summer’s resurgence of normcore, maybe Nickelback finally has a place in the lexicon of pop culture’s tastemakers. And this is Stripper Music Monday and since when do strippers give a fuck about being ahead of the curve… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Nickelback Edition
Week in Links—September 19th
Week in Links recently linked to the new book Male Sex Workers; the Advocate featured an excerpt from it this week. The new documentary Invisible follows former sex worker Richard Holcomb as he does HIV/AIDS outreach with male sex workers in Providence, Rhode Island. Despite the lurid hysteria and funding opportunities offered by the specter of… Continue reading Week in Links—September 19th
Support Hos: The Americans (2013-)
Whether we’re dancers or dommes, escorts, cyberworkers, or some combination or variation thereon, we don’t see ourselves on television very often, and when we do, it’s often a balancing act between how disappointingly horrible the portrayal of people who do what we do is, and our excitement that we’re there on screen at all (I’m… Continue reading Support Hos: The Americans (2013-)
The Week in Links—September 12th
Sex workers in Cape Town protested to emphasize the five murders in two months and demonstrate against police harassment, pointing out the vulnerability caused by their illicit status and calling for decriminalization of sex work in South Africa. The trial of Zwelethu Mthethwa for the murder of 23-year-old sex worker begins in November. The Atlantic… Continue reading The Week in Links—September 12th
Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014)
Imagine a city so bleak, so hopeless, so full of darkness, that only criminals and social rejects have a fighting chance to survive living there. Imagine villains so desperate, so foul, so vile, that the ugliest death for them still wouldn’t feel like justice. Now imagine heros who are so full of vice, rage, and… Continue reading Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014)