Written collaboratively by Juniper Fitzgerald and Jessie Sage Several months ago, we attended the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, which included the Adult Video Network (AVN awards). The problematic aspects of such conventions notwithstanding—for example, a panel of “industry leaders” at the Expo admitted to never hearing of FOSTA—it is an event many sex… Continue reading Shadowbans: Secret Policies Depriving Sex Workers of Income and Community
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2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers
The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble by Juniper Fitzgerald Is our power born from our stigma? How White Women Fuck Up Reparations by Jay St. James “Reparations don’t come due when you’ve reached your self-set level of financial comfort, they’re paid from the start of your financial independence in appreciation of… Continue reading 2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers
Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism
Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist writer who has spent at least five years on this site waging misogynist harassment campaigns against sex workers and trans women, as if it were all she had for a content strategy… is finally suspended. pic.twitter.com/lo9sW9niv8 — Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) November 24, 2018 Meghan Murphy was booted from… Continue reading Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism
Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
On August 24, a police officer on duty with the Columbus, Ohio police department named Andrew Mitchell shot and killed sex worker Donna Dalton, leaving her two children motherless. Like others who habitually inflict state sanctioned violence onto the bodies of marginalized people, Mitchell says he “feared” for his life, despite friends describing Dalton as… Continue reading Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
Michael Kimmel, #MeTooSociology, and Feminist Betrayal of Sex Workers In Academia
I’ve made an entire alter ego out of the things people hate most about women: bodily autonomy and self-determination in the form of sex work and body modifications, among other things. The recent allegations against prominent sociologist Michael Kimmel, a man known for his scholarship on masculinity and masculine entitlement, unveil the things people love… Continue reading Michael Kimmel, #MeTooSociology, and Feminist Betrayal of Sex Workers In Academia