Shannon Williams, co-chair of SWOP-USA, St. James Infirmary volunteer and Whorespeak activist, died this week after unexpectedly being diagnosed with a brain tumor. There is a fund for her three children here. Williams became briefly notorious after being arrested in 2003 for prostitution while working as a high school teacher in Berkeley. She was a sex… Continue reading The Week In Links—January 23
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The Week in Links: April 6
Churches in Kentucky and Tennessee have joined forces to protest a bar on the state border that features gogo/pole dancers. A local pastor has stated that he hopes to keep the community safe “from the filth and degradation that just ruins people.” Did we mention that these aren’t even strippers, just gogo dancers? Meanwhile, an Ohio… Continue reading The Week in Links: April 6
A Protest of a Protest: SOS Oregon Takes on Casa Diablo
I heard from a friend that Portland’s vegan strip club, Casa Diablo, was staging a protest against the meat served at the Acropolis Steakhouse* strip club. Then I saw on the Facebook event page that Casa Diablo were rallying for the OLCC to approve a liquor license for their soon-to-open second location (which happens to… Continue reading A Protest of a Protest: SOS Oregon Takes on Casa Diablo