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		<title>Activist Spotlight: Melissa Gira Grant on Playing The Whore and Policing the Policers, Part One</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the early aughts when I was a novice escort and On Our Backs was still being published, I was wowed by Melissa Gira Grant, an internet porn-making, geeky, theory-spouting phenom, even managing to be friends with her despite the fact that she was an Anais Nïn devotee. Over the years I’ve kept in touch&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/activist-spotlight-melissa-gira-grant-on-playing-the-whore-and-policing-the-policers-part-one/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Activist Spotlight: Melissa Gira Grant on <i>Playing The Whore</i> and Policing the Policers, Part One</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Equality Now, Or Else?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While Western-led feminist groups such as Equality Now continue to conflate consensual sex work with trafficking and violence, where do sex workers themselves  fit into concepts of feminism and gender equality, especially if they live in countries like India? “When you are coming from a place like India, you have the whole caste system, stigma&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/equality-now-or-else/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Equality Now, Or Else?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links—November 1st</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Musto&#8217;s Lou Reed obituary in the Daily Beast goes on at length about Reed&#8217;s penchant for including street sex workers and trans sex workers in his songwriting. Therefore, we can mention Lou Reed&#8217;s death in the Week In Links without going off topic. Fellow Phoenix activists have started an indiegogo fundraiser site for the&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-november-1st/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links—November 1st</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Week In Links—October 11th</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An open letter extravaganza began this week when Sinead O&#8217;Connor wrote to Miley Cyrus, warning her that the music industry &#8220;will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think its[sic] what YOU wanted.. and when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, ‘they’ will be sunning themselves&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-october-11th/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Week In Links—October 11th</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>Week In Links—September 27th</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Equality Now and other abolitionist groups campaigned against the UN&#8217;s recommendation to decriminalize sex work. Don&#8217;t read the articles linked unless you have a strong stomach. Melissa Gira Grant documented a particularly exasperating twitter exchange with Equality Now&#8217;s Rachel Moran on her blog, in which Moran claimed that &#8220;&#8216;sex workers&#8217; don&#8217;t exist.&#8221; Scott Long also provides some valuable context. The New York&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/week-in-links-september-27th/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Week In Links—September 27th</span></a>]]></description>
		
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