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		<title>Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/daniel-holtzclaw-black-women-and-the-myth-of-police-protection/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[N'jaila Rhee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black sex workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Ligons]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: this piece contains general discussion of rape. On his 29th birthday, December 10th, former Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who targeted low income, criminalized Black women and girls for sexual assault while on duty, was found guilty of 18 of the 36 charges brought against him. He now faces up to 263&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/daniel-holtzclaw-black-women-and-the-myth-of-police-protection/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Price of Knowledge: Discrimination Against Sex Workers In Academia</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-price-of-knowledge-discrimination-against-sex-workers-in-academia/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juniper Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 13:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This Time, It's Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juniper fitzgerald]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual harassment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=19700</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[This essay is based on research interviews I conducted with current and former sex workers who are undergraduate or graduate students at universities across the globe. Their names and other identifying information have been changed. I am subject to the capricious whims of my patriarch, a pimp of sorts, the man who decides the parameters&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-price-of-knowledge-discrimination-against-sex-workers-in-academia/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Price of Knowledge: Discrimination Against Sex Workers In Academia</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A &#8216;Whore&#8217; By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/a-whore-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-rose/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenya Golden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Sex Work Moments in Pop Culture History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amber Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blac Chyna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanye West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khloe Kardashian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misogynoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyga]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=19108</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently, Amber Rose has been in the spotlight for giving her opinion on The Breakfast Club 105.1 regarding Kim Kardashian’s 17-year-old half sister Kylie Jenner’s relationship with 25-year-old rapper Tyga. Rose was asked if Jenner is too young to date the “Rack City” rapper, and she responded with: “She’s a baby. She needs to go&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/a-whore-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-rose/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A &#8216;Whore&#8217; By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work In A Rust Belt Town (2011)</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/neon-wasteland-on-love-motherhood-and-sex-work-in-a-rust-belt-town-2011/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Ditmore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strippers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lateral whorephobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melissa ditmore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neon wasteland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[susan dewey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Susan Dewey conducted fieldwork for her academic study at a strip club she calls “Vixens” in a town she calls “Sparksburgh” in the post-industrial economy in upstate New York. She describes interacting with approximately 50 dancers but focuses on a few: Angel, Chantelle, Cinnamon, Diamond, and Star. Some names were changed, but these pseudonyms will&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/neon-wasteland-on-love-motherhood-and-sex-work-in-a-rust-belt-town-2011/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"><i>Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work In A Rust Belt Town</i> (2011)</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quote of the Week</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/quote-of-the-week-31/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Quote of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lateral whorephobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maggie Mayhem]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=14849</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Trust that all sex workers know just how fascinating white men in positions of power find them. I’m not going to be impressed that one of them condescended to consider that sex workers are worthy of being written about. I’ll be impressed when sex workers are considered authorities of their own lives and get recognition&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/quote-of-the-week-31/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Quote of the Week</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part Two</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-two/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[queer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red umbrella project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproductive rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respectability politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. James Infirmary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the red umbrella project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans sex workers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=14254</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[You can read part one of this dialogue here. Emma Caterine: Red Umbrella Project has definitely encountered issues around pressure to conform to respectability politics from larger groups who fund or sponsor us in different ways. It is telling that I can&#8217;t mention many of the specifics for fear of re-opening old wounds. Particularly the&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-two/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part Two</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part One</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-one/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Patterson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=14187</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[“Respectability politics” has been a recurring phrase coming up lately in conversations within the sex workers’ rights movement. In discussions on and off the site we’ve had about drug using sex workers, sex workers with disabilities, survival sex workers, etc., we’ve been bumping up against this idea constantly. The Tits and Sass editorial staff decided&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-one/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part One</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Outcasts Among Outcasts: Drug-Using Sex Workers in the Sex Workers&#8217; Rights Movement, Part 2</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/outcasts-among-outcasts-drug-using-sex-workers-in-the-sex-workers-rights-movement-part-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[This Time, It's Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caty Simon]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[(You can find part one of this discussion here) Caty: I&#8217;ve seen former drug-using sex workers like Kate Holden write that trading sex for drugs directly with a dealer was &#8220;just tacky,&#8221; and in my shallow, callow early years as a heroin-using escort, I often said the same thing. But the real reason I&#8217;ve avoided doing&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/outcasts-among-outcasts-drug-using-sex-workers-in-the-sex-workers-rights-movement-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Outcasts Among Outcasts: Drug-Using Sex Workers in the Sex Workers&#8217; Rights Movement, Part 2</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quotes of the Week&#8211;Special Doubleheader Edition</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/quotes-of-the-week-special-doubleheader-edition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We don’t need to polarize people’s experiences in the sex trade. We need a better understanding of those experiences in all of their complexities. I feel like I get sucked into this debate where I have to argue that lots of different parts of the sex trade exist, over and over again.  What is the&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/quotes-of-the-week-special-doubleheader-edition/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Quotes of the Week&#8211;Special Doubleheader Edition</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sex Work Snobbery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prostitution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=6048</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite aspects of sex work is the camaraderie. I often feel that I&#8217;m in a secret society; I&#8217;ve had people pull me aside and confess their own sex work past (or present) after learning of my own. There&#8217;s a level of honesty and candidness I assume with other sex workers that I don&#8217;t&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-work-snobbery/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Work Snobbery</span></a>]]></description>
		
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