The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble by Juniper Fitzgerald Is our power born from our stigma? How White Women Fuck Up Reparations by Jay St. James “Reparations don’t come due when you’ve reached your self-set level of financial comfort, they’re paid from the start of your financial independence in appreciation of… Continue reading 2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers
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Sex Working While Jewish In America
We are witnessing the blossoming of a white nationalist nation. Being the person that I am is not easy in the United States right now. It’s not easy for my friends, my family, or millions of Black people, Jews, and LGBTQI people. I’m an Iranian, Tunisian, French and Jewish sex worker. I immigrated from France… Continue reading Sex Working While Jewish In America
How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group
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’t exactly sure what to do and knew that many other people were in the same… Continue reading How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group
The Short Life of “Feminist” Tube Site Bellesa
How can you talk about ethics when your company is posting stolen content from producers and sex workers? A tube site aimed at women did just that this month. Recently launched, Bellesa claimed it created a safe atmosphere for its users, which, unlike other tube sites, was supposedly free of “degrading” porn. However, like all… Continue reading The Short Life of “Feminist” Tube Site Bellesa