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		<title>Thinking About Cyntoia And My Black Body</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/thinking-about-cyntoia-and-my-black-body/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cyntoia Brown]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/thinking-about-cyntoia-and-my-black-body/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Thinking About Cyntoia And My Black Body</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Everyone Has It Wrong On Blac Chyna</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay St. James]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, Blac Chyna has been relegated to being nothing more than a sex worker by opponents and supporters alike, people who reference her &#8220;finesse&#8221; and gloss over the abuse she’s suffered, reinforcing a dangerous narrative. Her humanity and her role as a mother are edited out of the persona people are now creating for her,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/how-everyone-has-it-wrong-on-blac-chyna/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How Everyone Has It Wrong On Blac Chyna</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flesh And Bone  (2015)</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/flesh-and-bone-2015/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strippers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flesh and Bone is on Starz, and predictably over the top, and you know it will be from the moment the credits start. A tiny ballerina dances amidst red dust that’s maybe blood, maybe drugs, who even knows, accompanied by a cover of that Animotion song “Obsession.” Flesh and Bone is a dance story, and&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/flesh-and-bone-2015/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>Flesh And Bone </i> (2015)</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who&#8217;s The Victim: The Tragedy of Latesha Clay</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/whos-the-victim-the-tragedy-of-latesha-clay/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katya M]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cops]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latesha Clay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[police violence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: This piece contains general discussion of child sexual abuse. Reading about the plight of Latesha Clay, the child in Grand Rapids, MI sentenced to nine years in prison after being used as live bait in a robbery scheme, the thing that struck me was the use of the word “victim.” Of course, referring&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/whos-the-victim-the-tragedy-of-latesha-clay/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Who&#8217;s The Victim: The Tragedy of Latesha Clay</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The State Is A Trafficker: Why Alaska Arrested Amber Batts</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-state-is-a-trafficker-why-alaska-arrested-amber-batts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Burns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On April 4, 2014, Anchorage Police Department officers responded to a report of a “hysterical female.”  The woman reported that she had lost her purse and she believed her coworker had taken it.  In response, she&#8217;d threatened to tell the police about the “prostitution ring” they were involved in, and her coworker had threatened to&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-state-is-a-trafficker-why-alaska-arrested-amber-batts/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The State Is A Trafficker: Why Alaska Arrested Amber Batts</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Support Hos: Deadwood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Support Hos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: Extreme spoiler alert. Seriously, do yourself a favor and watch Deadwood before reading this, if for some inexplicable reason you haven&#8217;t yet. I started watching Deadwood when the cabbie I was sleeping with at the time told me it was a Wild West show about a town run by whores. “You’ll love it!”&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/support-hos-deadwood/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Support Hos: <i>Deadwood</i></span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Tunnel, Not A Door: Exiting Conditioned, Generational Sex Work</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/a-tunnel-not-a-door-exiting-conditioned-generational-sex-work/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lime Jello]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This piece is adapted from a December 17th speech the author gave this year. &#8220;You&#8217;re so lazy, you&#8217;ll never be anything but a whore. And you won&#8217;t even be a good whore because nobody wants to fuck a girl with a book in front of her face.&#8221; When I was about twelve, as I lay&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/a-tunnel-not-a-door-exiting-conditioned-generational-sex-work/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Tunnel, Not A Door: Exiting Conditioned, Generational Sex Work</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Truth Will Come Out: An Interview With Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-truth-will-come-out-an-interview-with-jill-brenneman-and-amanda-brooks/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview co-authored by Josephine and Caty Content warning—the following contains descriptions of extreme injuries and rape suffered by two sex workers due to a campaign of violence by an abusive client, as well as an account of child abuse. Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks are veterans and heroines of the sex workers’ rights movement.  As&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-truth-will-come-out-an-interview-with-jill-brenneman-and-amanda-brooks/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Truth Will Come Out: An Interview With Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving Through Archetypes: Juniper Fleming and Reclamation and (Dis)Atonement</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/moving-through-archetypes-juniper-fleming-and-reclamation-and-disatonement/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I interviewed sex worker artist Juniper Fleming on her collaborative photo series with other sex workers, Reclamation and (Dis)Atonement. Your project consists of remaking iconic Western art works, creating photographic reproductions in which you replace the main figures in the paintings with sex workers. What does depicting sex workers in these roles achieve? As sex&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/moving-through-archetypes-juniper-fleming-and-reclamation-and-disatonement/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving Through Archetypes: Juniper Fleming and <i>Reclamation and (Dis)Atonement</i></span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Did Not Consent To Being Tokenized</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lady Emmy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am a sex worker who was coerced into doing work I felt violated by, and I am horrified by SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Reactionary Feminists) who insist that all sex work is by nature coerced and non-consensual. Recently, I’ve noticed a disturbing rise in anti-sex work rhetoric that rests on the premise that all&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/i-did-not-consent-to-being-tokenized/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">I Did Not Consent To Being Tokenized</span></a>]]></description>
		
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