The Commercial Dungeon Experience: Abusive Management And Exploitation

(Photo by flickr user sharyn morrow, via Creative Commons)

Dungeons are often a launching pad for newbies entering the industry as the work seems safer and often more socially acceptable to the general public. In recent years pro-domme, sub, and switch work has gotten more popular than ever. Meanwhile, commercial dungeon management continues to prey on people entering into the industry looking for an… Continue reading The Commercial Dungeon Experience: Abusive Management And Exploitation

Activist Spotlight: Anna Saini on Identity and Being An Unlikable Survivor

Anna Saini in performance (photo by Nick Oscoff, courtesy of Red Umbrella Project)

Anna Saini is  a community organizer with Voices of Community Activists and Leaders – New York (VOCAL-NY), where she works towards  ending the drug war, mass incarceration and racist policing. Her writing appears in Bitch magazine, make/shift magazine, the forthcoming Dear Sister Anthology, her self published anthology Colored Girls, as well as both Red Umbrella Project… Continue reading Activist Spotlight: Anna Saini on Identity and Being An Unlikable Survivor

The Bloody State Gave Him The Power: A Swedish Sex Worker’s Murder

On Friday, Swedish sex workers’ rights organization Rose Alliance released this statement on Facebook: “Our board member, fierce activist, and friend Petite Jasmine got brutally murdered yesterday (11 July 2013). Several years ago she lost custody of her children as she was considered to be an unfit parent due to being a sex worker. The… Continue reading The Bloody State Gave Him The Power: A Swedish Sex Worker’s Murder

The Week In Links–May 31st

Brooklyn prosecutors advised local police to stop confiscating condoms as evidence of prostitution. Labour MSP Rhoda Grant lodged a Members Bill to criminalize the purchase of sex in the Scottish Parliament. The Daily Record reports the sobering revelation that a public consultation on the proposed Purchase of Sex Bill found almost 80 per cent of respondents would back… Continue reading The Week In Links–May 31st