Have you heard about the new regulations on porn made in the United Kingdom? You know, the oddly specific rules that have banned pissing and whipping and squirting and jazz hands and weird mustaches? They’ve at least inspired the coolest protest ever. Three words: MASS FACE SITTING. Speaking of dumb laws in the UK, Britain’s established… Continue reading The Week in Links—December 12th
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The Week in Links—December 5th
Monica Jones was barred from entering Australia for the last three weeks of her student placement and ultimately deported back to the United States. Eloise Brook at the Guardian wrote an intelligent and pointed response, asking how a social work student becomes a national threat. Gloria Steinem’s latest move, signing the open letter to the AP… Continue reading The Week in Links—December 5th
The Week in Links—November 21st
GLAAD released their third annual Trans Images on TV report and were pleased to find that “only one character this year was portrayed as a sex worker, Venus Van Dam on FX’s Sons of Anarchy. This is an improvement over previous years in which the most common profession for trans characters was sex worker.” Terri Jean… Continue reading The Week in Links—November 21st
The Week in Links—November 14th
Amanda Brooks published this post about the ordeal a client put her and Jill Brenneman through over the past two years. It’s a horrifying and compelling must-read. Scarlet Road, a documentary about an Australian escort and her disabled clients, is showing at the Columbus International Film Fest. An Irish sex work abolitionist group is making… Continue reading The Week in Links—November 14th
The Week In Links—October 31
Darren Vann, the man accused of targeting sex workers and killing seven women in Indiana, says he messed up by killing his last victim, Afrikka Hardy in Hammond instead of Gary. (True remorse.) S.E. Smith asks how a convicted sex offender was able to murder at least seven women over the past few decades. Gary… Continue reading The Week In Links—October 31