This week, the NYPD’s ridiculous and oppressive practice of using condoms continued to be written up in various venues. RH Reality Check weighed in, as did the Daily Mail, and Jezebel, while the Red Umbrella Project stepped up their campaign against the cops by creating postcards illustrated with victims’ stories that NYers can send to… Continue reading The Week in Links–March 15th
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The Week in Links–March 1st
Vice mag contributor Helen Rimmel did a photo essay on South Mumbai sex workers who are peer teachers on HIV, STDs, and women’s rights in the community. Ignore Rimmel’s offensive attempts at a narrative—“Life in the red light districts is…pretty much like living in a giant toilet bowl full of syringes and awful people”—and enjoy the photos… Continue reading The Week in Links–March 1st
The Week In Links— February 22
Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers purports to reveal “the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years”, using information gathered from The Internet Adult Film Database (and without talking to any actual sex workers, conveniently).… Continue reading The Week In Links— February 22
The Week in Links: August 12
Melissa Petro (once deemed “hooker teacher” by the New York Post) responds to the Post‘s Wednesday headline. Wendy Babcock, Toronto-based sex work activist and law student, passed away on Tuesday. There are only five days left to donate to the SWAAY Epic Step billboard. Irish sex workers rights organization Turn Off the Blue Light recently claimed victory… Continue reading The Week in Links: August 12
The Week in Links: July 8
Rather than backing down in the face of Ashton Kutcher’s attack on its advertisers, The Village Voice is amping up its articles on trafficking hysteria at large. They’ve created a dramatic infographic about actual trafficking arrests, and here’s their publication Seattle Weekly taking a closer look at Kutcher’s “philanthropy consultant.” You can also read their recent condemnation of how journalists… Continue reading The Week in Links: July 8