Rashida Jones replied (respectfully!) to Kitty Stryker‘s post earlier this week on Tits and Sass, and the two engaged in brief dialogue. Thailand is amping up arrests of sex workers in an attempt to appear to be compliant with US regulations on trafficking. SWOP-Seattle has written an open letter to lawmakers, asking them to stop bills that… Continue reading The Week in Links—February 6th
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The Week In Links—May 9th
“I just want them to stop fucking with us.” VICE talks to Mexican sex workers participating in a May Day march for labor rights in a piece acknowledging the economic appeal of sex work: “Inflation has caused Mexico’s minimum wage to decrease over the years, and many of the country’s citizens have turned to the… Continue reading The Week In Links—May 9th
The Week In Links—July 5th
The New York Times ran a substantial piece on the still-unsolved Long Island sex worker murders by Robert Kolker, author of a forthcoming book on the same subject. Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric assassinated by a US drone strike in Yemen, “regularly visited high end prostitutes” — if you think 7 times over ten months counts as regularity. How… Continue reading The Week In Links—July 5th
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
“Lapdancing Nun” Ruins It for Everyone
Or so most of the reports read. One ex-stripper nun and her emphatic interpretive dancing has caused the monastery at the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, a basilica built around 325, to be shut down by Pope Benedict XVI. I see how her performances could be considered inappropriate. She does roll around on the ground, looking… Continue reading “Lapdancing Nun” Ruins It for Everyone