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
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Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On—The Production
I first heard that a sequel to Hot Girls Wanted was being made about three months ago. A performer I followed posted about being approached for filming. He rejected the offer immediately. I shared his discomfort. The first Hot Girls Wanted was a documentary film carefully designed to manipulate the viewer into feeling disgust towards… Continue reading Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On—The Production
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
Big Mother Is Watching You: Mistresses of the Universe
Welcome to Big Mother Is Watching You, a guide to prominent anti-sex worker activists, most of them women. This new feature is brought to you by Robin D., veteran activist with SWOP-Denver. Today’s Mothers are a pair of powerful heiresses and philanthropists who, of late, have focused their efforts on influencing policy affecting sex workers. … Continue reading Big Mother Is Watching You: Mistresses of the Universe