Caty’s picks: Media Coverage of Sex Workers Erases Our Voices by Lily Fury Tits and Sass contributor Lily Fury’s Establishment piece confronts a problem which we’ve devoted thousands of words to on this site: the flattening, sanitizing, and sensationalizing of sex workers’ stories by the mainstream media. The quotes she elicits from interview subjects like Shagasyia… Continue reading 2016’s Best Sex Work Writing
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2016’s Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work
Murder in the Bayou, by Ethan Brown Eight murdered woman from Jefferson Davis parish in Louisiana had two things in common: a background in drugs and/or sex work. The police blamed a serial killer. But Brown discovered something else the victims had in common: they had all worked as informants for law enforcement of some… Continue reading 2016’s Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work
2016’s Worst Sex Work Stories
The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers The headline says it all, folks. And yet, when the author attempts to answer her own question, it gets worse: “Sex sells, and it always has. But now being woke sells, too. By humanizing these characters, by providing them with a rich inner life… Continue reading 2016’s Worst Sex Work Stories