On Dec. 20 the Senate passed Senate Resolution 439: “A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the ‘adult entertainment’ section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com.” I am clearly weeks late responding to this. This happened in the flurry of holidays, travel, and the Sandy Hook… Continue reading The Worst New Year’s Resolution
Tag: Activism
The Week In Links: November 23
Transgender Day of Remembrance was this past Tuesday, the 20th, and it’s hard to observe without highlighting that trans women are a particularly vulnerable group, doubly so if they’re women of color, and even more so if they engage in the sex trade. TDOR was founded in 1998 to memorialize the still-unsolved murder of Rita… Continue reading The Week In Links: November 23
The Week In Links: October 19
Seattle feminist group Grrl Army made the news with a spectacular bright pink graffiti paint job on a closed motel. Slogans promoting sex workers’ rights covered the building. The video above comes from KOMO. British activist Kat Banyard has bad feels about sex work (“The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism”). Leave… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 19
Sex Work and Storytelling at “Sex and Justice”
Long ago before I had ever begun to use the term “sex work” or could even have guessed at what aå Sex and Justice conference would entail, I began processing my experiences in sex/work by telling my story. For a long time I kept that story in the place where I had left it: journals, then later… Continue reading Sex Work and Storytelling at “Sex and Justice”
Sex Worker Activists Targeted By Arson Attack
The fearless New Orleans organization Women With A Vision, a group that’s done considerable work for sex worker rights, suffered an arson attack at the end of last week. Their outreach resources—condoms, educational materials, HIV rapid test kits, and anatomical models to demonstrate self-care—were destroyed. This act was one of domestic terrorism; it’s on par with… Continue reading Sex Worker Activists Targeted By Arson Attack