We covered NYC’s new prostitution courts last week. This week, Robin Richardson of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center sent a great letter to the editor in the New York Times discussing the courts and challenging the criminalization of prostitution. In even more exciting news, the Melissa Harris-Perry Show hosted a dialogue on… Continue reading The Week In Links—October 4th
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The Week In Links—June 28th
Registration for the Desiree Alliance Conference is still open with hotel room discounts until July 7th. Tensions over escorting simmer in rural Australian towns, where touring sex workers follow the market that transient miners create, even after the Queensland Supreme Court upheld a ruling that allows hotel owners to refuse accommodations to sex workers. Beijing… Continue reading The Week In Links—June 28th
The Week in Links: March 16
The Ms. Magazine blog gave us a shout out in a post this week about sex work organizations. Thank, Ms! Rick Santorum’s new pet social issue: the “pandemic” of pornography. He has stated, if elected, that he’ll work toward a ban on hard-core pornography (in addition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and the “absolute” separation of church and state). He… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 16
The Week In Links: December 2
Dita Von Teese speaks out about stripping and burlesque dance: “I don’t really need any fancy terminology to describe what I do. … Yeah, I am [a stripper]; I’m proud of what I do.” Today the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition is hosting the Summit on Sex Work in the South in Asheville, NC. New York police theorize that one single serial… Continue reading The Week In Links: December 2
The Week In Links: June 3
You may have already seen the above video but of course we had to include here for good measure. He’s dancing to Girl Talk!