In My Skin by Australian Kate Holden is an example of the “my drug whore hell” memoirs to which I am both attracted and repelled. I’m an IV drug-using sex worker but do not subscribe to the NA model of addiction-as-disease and don’t define my life as hell. Most media doesn’t show anything true about… Continue reading In My Skin (2008)
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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: July 27
Indian sex workers who could not get visas to attend the International HIV/AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., held a parallel meeting in Kolkata this week. Over 800 sex workers and activists from over 41 countries participated. Canadian strip clubs and massage parlors announced plans to recruit at high school job fairs now that the government has discontinued visas… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 27
The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
In a post-Mike Daisey age, you can’t help but approach a monologuist with a certain skepticism. There’s truth and then there’s truthiness, and in between rests a heaving sea of what-the-hell-edness. Part Time Prostitute, a one-woman show that claims to be the “autobiographical tale of a part-time prostitute,” appears to be fairly on the level,… Continue reading The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
John Franc Wants Us Hooked (2011)
“We were all monsters” the nameless narrator tells us four sentences into Hooked by John Franc. The “we” refers to nine men who live in a city where prostitution is conveniently legal and when the men learn this fact, they begin a downward, hooker-hopping spiral of frightening velocity that ends in the most melodramatic plot… Continue reading John Franc Wants Us Hooked (2011)