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		<title>International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers:  Reliving the Decade You Survived</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[decade retrospective]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Caty Simon and Josephine Ten years ago, the remains of four sex workers &#8212; Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Lynn Overstreet Costello &#8212; were found close to Gilgo Beach, near Long Island, New York. The bodies were unearthed after a frantic 911 call from another worker: Shannan Gilbert spent 21 minutes&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers-reliving-the-decade-you-survived/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers:  Reliving the Decade You Survived</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabelle Raphael]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BAPS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maxine Holloway]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was jointly written by Maxine Holloway and Arabelle Raphael, co-founders of BAPS. On the morning after the Senate passed FOSTA we texted each other about whether we should remove our ads from our social media accounts. We weren&#8217;t exactly sure what to do and knew that many other people were in the same&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/how-to-start-a-post-sesta-emergency-organizing-group/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Four Easy Tips For Doing Street Outreach</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/four-easy-tips-for-doing-street-outreach/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service activism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the 2016 election I thought I would die if I didn&#8217;t do something now, immediately, something tangible where I walked away knowing that both I and the other person were better off after interacting: them with something concrete&#8212;whether it was a sandwich or hot coffee or condoms or whatever&#8212;and me feeling like I had&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/four-easy-tips-for-doing-street-outreach/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Four Easy Tips For Doing Street Outreach</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Naked Music Monday: Insane Clown Posse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josephine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antifa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been workshopping an excuse to write an Insane Clown Posse post for a couple years now, but could never find a plausible reason to do it. But you know what? It&#8217;s 2017 now. Nothing makes sense anyway; a reality TV star is President, knitted pussycat hats are considered revolutionary, and McDonald&#8217;s sells guacamole. Anything&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/naked-music-monday-insane-clown-posse/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Naked Music Monday: Insane Clown Posse</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Activist Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Prison Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Leigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[films]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaclyn Dairman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcia Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maricopa county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monica Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NO HUMAN INVOLVED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy Plews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PJ Starr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison abolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison industrial complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respectability politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Joe Arpaio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SWOP-Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note, 8/31/2017: In light of Trump&#8217;s pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio for his contempt of court conviction re: the order to cease his reign of terror against immigrants in Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County, we&#8217;re posting an updated edition of my September 2014 interview with PJ Starr. I interviewed Starr on her documentary about Marcia Powell,&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-interview-pj-starr-on-marcia-powell-and-prison-abolition/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight Interview: PJ Starr On Marcia Powell And Prison Abolition</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Live Freely In This World: Sex Worker Activism In Africa (2016)</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/to-live-freely-in-this-world-sex-worker-activism-in-africa-2016/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A version of this review originally appeared in issue 19 of make/shift magazine In March 2016, South African deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa made a historic announcement of a nationwide scheme to prevent and treat HIV among sex workers, proclaiming, “we cannot deny the humanity and inalienable rights of people who engage in sex work.” Though&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/to-live-freely-in-this-world-sex-worker-activism-in-africa-2016/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>To Live Freely In This World: Sex Worker Activism In Africa</i> (2016)</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Uptown Thief (2016)</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/uptown-thief-2016/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Slam poet and African American studies professor Aya de León’s new novel, Uptown Thief, is every activist sex worker’s fantasy: her protagonist Marisol Rivera is a women’s health clinic director by day and an escort agency manager and expert safe-cracker to fund that clinic for survival workers by night. True, any enterprising hooker who actually&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/uptown-thief-2016/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>Uptown Thief</i> (2016)</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rest In Power, Sharmus Outlaw</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/rest-in-power-sharmus-outlaw/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black trans sex workers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sharmus Outlaw, longtime trans, HIV, and sex workers&#8217; rights activist, died in hospice care at the age of 50 on July 7th from lymphoma. Her death was hastened by systematic healthcare bias: she endured a long delay in processing her Medicaid application because doctors were &#8220;confused&#8221; by her gender marker, and faced numerous other difficulties&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/rest-in-power-sharmus-outlaw/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rest In Power, Sharmus Outlaw</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Starting To Show Up: An Interview With SWOP National&#8217;s President, Savannah Sly</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/starting-to-show-up-an-interview-with-swop-nationals-president-savannah-sly/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Holtzclaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intersectional]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Savannah Sly]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[SWOP (Sex Worker Outreach Project) is the most recognized name in sex workers’ rights advocacy in the U.S. Currently, they have over 25 chapters around the country, and a board of directors—SWOP National. The only requirements to be a chapter are that March 3rd (International Sex Worker Rights Day) and December 17th (International Day To&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/starting-to-show-up-an-interview-with-swop-nationals-president-savannah-sly/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Starting To Show Up: An Interview With SWOP National&#8217;s President, Savannah Sly</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Meg Vallee Munoz on Compassion, Coercion, and Complexity</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-meg-valee-munoz-on-compassion-coercion-and-complexity/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[rescue industrial complex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Jacobs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meg Munoz became an escort at age 18, and had a relatively good experience working. She then took a break from the business for two years.  Some time after her return to the work in order to pay for college, a close friend turned on her, blackmailing her and forcing her to turn over all&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-meg-valee-munoz-on-compassion-coercion-and-complexity/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Meg Vallee Munoz on Compassion, Coercion, and Complexity</span></a>]]></description>
		
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