Both sex workers’ rights and anti-trafficking organizations have been watching a bill winding its way through Congress for a while. Here at Tits and Sass, we’ve had plenty to say about it. SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, the Senate version of the bill, would have been disastrous enough—it would create a trafficking-related loophole… Continue reading Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D’Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA
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Activist Spotlight: BARE on the Mass Closure of Strip Clubs in New Orleans
An unholy mix of gentrification and trafficking hysteria created the perfect political climate to allow law enforcement to shutter several New Orleans strip clubs, leaving scores of dancers unemployed. The Bourbon Alliance of Responsible Entertainers rapidly sprung into action; they disrupted the mayor’s press conference and organized the Unemployment March the following night, which drew… Continue reading Activist Spotlight: BARE on the Mass Closure of Strip Clubs in New Orleans
What Sex Workers Need To Know About This Month’s Anti-Trafficking Bills
As yet another terrifying resurrection of the zombie Republican health care cut bill looms over the nation, sex workers have their own nightmare legislative threat to deal with this month. That’s because, in the midst of this year’s iteration of commemorative 9/11 pomp, two anti-trafficking bills passed unanimously in the Senate which would vastly expand… Continue reading What Sex Workers Need To Know About This Month’s Anti-Trafficking Bills
Surviving As Working Class After Backpage
Content warning: This post contains discussion and accounts of trafficking, debt bondage, and exploitation, both in the context of sex trafficking and trafficking in another industry. There are also brief references to experiences of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, custody loss, structural violence from criminalization, and violence against sex workers. In the last four… Continue reading Surviving As Working Class After Backpage
Top Six Reasons Melania Trump Should Get Involved In Anti-Trafficking Campaigning
With every new presidency comes the expectation that the First Spouse will adopt a cause that is considered sufficiently non-controversial in nature. So as the doomsday clock ticked ever faster towards the Trump inauguration at the end of 2016, people not only speculated about which nightmarish regressive agendas Donald would make a waking reality while… Continue reading Top Six Reasons Melania Trump Should Get Involved In Anti-Trafficking Campaigning