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		<title>2017&#8217;s Best Writing By Sex Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No One In The Porn Industry Likes A Broken Vagina by Andre Shakti 2017 was a year suffused with the healthcare issue, so this Andre Shakti piece was never more needed. There&#8217;s plenty of discussion about the emotional labor of sex work, but very little talk about the physical labor: what is it like being&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/2017s-best-writing-by-sex-workers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">2017&#8217;s Best Writing By Sex Workers</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links—December 20</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What a triumphant end to this week of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Work: today, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down the country&#8217;s prostitution related laws in a unanimous decision on Bedford vs. Canada, calling all three statutes—prohibiting brothels, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public with clients—over-broad and &#8220;grossly disproportionate.&#8221;&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-december-20/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links—December 20</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>World Leaders: An East Asian Sex Worker Round Table</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Passion]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Participants: Ho Lee Fuk 1, Nada 2, Christian Vega3, and Kate Zen; moderated by Mariko Passion We at Tits and Sass wanted to run a series on racial fetishization in sex work. We were interested in questions like &#8220;What is it like for sex workers of color to labor in an industry where customers&#8217; racist&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/world-leaders-an-asian-sex-worker-round-table/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">World Leaders: An East Asian Sex Worker Round Table</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links—October 4th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-october-4th/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links—October 4th</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links—September 6th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 21:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This story by Missy Wilkinson about the business slowdown in New Orleans strip clubs during the summer nails that &#8220;bad season&#8221; feeling so common in hot climates: &#8220;It&#8217;s also a time when she experiences a phenomenon she calls &#8216;bad-busy&#8217;: a club crowded with people who may pay the cover charge and buy a drink, but&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-september-6th/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links—September 6th</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links&#8211;May 10th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seven sex workers&#8217; rights organizations have been denied the right to intervene in the Supreme Court case deciding the constitutionality of Canada&#8217;s prostitution laws. However, many religious and abolitionist groups supporting the prostitution laws will be allowed a hearing, much to sex workers&#8217; rights advocates&#8217; outrage. Nassau County is the first county in NY state to&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-may-10th/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links&#8211;May 10th</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Carol Leigh on Sex Worker Sinema and Challenging the Anti-Trafficking Discourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Carol Leigh, aka Scarlot Harlot, was the first sex workers’ rights movement celebrity I ever met. I’d been escorting for only a few months when she came to speak in my area, and I identified deeply with her writing in my dogeared copy of the 1980s edition of Sex Work. I was struck immediately by her&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlightcarol-leigh-on-sex-worker-sinema-and-challenging-the-anti-trafficking-discourse/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Carol Leigh on Sex Worker Sinema and Challenging the Anti-Trafficking Discourse</span></a>]]></description>
		
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