As we gathered on the busy street corner in front of the Queens Public Library in Flushing on Friday March 29th, over one hundred community members heard our cry: “性工作是真工作!” Sex work is work! The police had blockaded Red Canary Song members from the library steps, protecting the carceral narratives that were being pushed inside… Continue reading The Massage Parlor Means Survival Here: Red Canary Song On Robert Kraft
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SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet
You can always count on a corporation to look out for its own interests. An existential threat to their business model will even trump the good PR that comes from beating on everyone’s favorite marginalized punching bags, sex workers). So, until recently, major tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Google opposed SESTA,the Stop Enabling… Continue reading SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet
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
Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking (2016)
Red: In journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, And Trafficking, in which years of her reporting are illustrated by comic artists Delia Jean, Melissa Mendes, Ellen Lindner, Simon Haussle, and Leela Corman, among others, she takes us around the world, untangling the many levels of exploitation and corruption inherent in the garment… Continue reading Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking (2016)
Big Mother Is Watching You: The Swedish Model Goes Stateside
In the fifth installment of her column, Big Mother Is Watching You, a guide to prominent anti-sex worker activists and officials, Robin D. outlines the major figures promoting the End Demand/Swedish Model phenomenon in the United States. When the Sex Purchase Ban passed in Sweden in 1999, prostitution was legal there. Proponents of the Swedish Model in the… Continue reading Big Mother Is Watching You: The Swedish Model Goes Stateside