Human Trafficking Courts – Tits and Sass

The Week in Links—January 9th

Learn about sex work through a video game? Pass the Mountain Dew. (image via Flickr user royalport)

A team of academics at Concordia University in Canada are developing a video game to counteract C-36. The objective: to make money as a sex worker and survive. The sex workers in Freetown, Sierra Leone are earning a small percentage of what they used to because of the Ebola crisis. Their customers are afraid that they… Continue reading The Week in Links—January 9th

So These Sex Workers Walk Into A Human Trafficking Conference: Red Umbrella Project at the Toledo International Human Trafficking Conference

The RedUP gang at yet another conference (Photo courtesy of Red Umbrella Project)

When I accepted the chance to go the International Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Sex Work Conference in Toledo, Ohio, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The organization I work for, Red Umbrella Project, attended the conference to present our report on New York’s new Human Trafficking Intervention Courts. Just the fact that they accepted us—a… Continue reading So These Sex Workers Walk Into A Human Trafficking Conference: Red Umbrella Project at the Toledo International Human Trafficking Conference

The Week in Links—October 3rd

Half of the $17000 fundraising goal for Angelia Mangum and Tjhisha Ball has been met.

Our very own Tits and Sass contributor Peechington Marie’s and Meli Machiavelli’s fundraiser for murdered Black dancers Tjhisha Ball and Angelia Magnum is at its halfway point of $8,000. Please donate to help them reach their goal and allow Ball and Magnum’s families to afford their burials. Jada Pinkett Smith holds forth on stripping: it’s… Continue reading The Week in Links—October 3rd