One of the best people I have met through sex worker groups is undoubtedly Vee Chattie. We met in person a couple of years ago in the back seat of a car on the way to a hearing at the Capitol. Vee develops hard-hitting performance art and organizes activist events, but the bulk of their… Continue reading The Joke Has To Be Funny: An Interview With Vee Chattie On Their New Podcast, The Comedy Whore
Tag: Maggie Mcmuffin
2016’s Best Sex Work Writing
Caty’s picks: Media Coverage of Sex Workers Erases Our Voices by Lily Fury Tits and Sass contributor Lily Fury’s Establishment piece confronts a problem which we’ve devoted thousands of words to on this site: the flattening, sanitizing, and sensationalizing of sex workers’ stories by the mainstream media. The quotes she elicits from interview subjects like Shagasyia… Continue reading 2016’s Best Sex Work Writing
The Month in Links: Summer In Review Edition
Week in Links has been on hiatus. It’s come back to you in a new form: Month in links! This is gonna be good, you’ll see. In the meantime, momentous things have happened! In August, despite protest from such well-educated and experienced sex workers and sex work researchers as Lena Dunham, Anne Hathaway, and Meryl… Continue reading The Month in Links: Summer In Review Edition
Support Hos: American Horror Story: Freak Show
Adapted from a g-chat between Caty Simon and Maggie Mcmuffin: American Horror Story: Freak Show draws on the traditional connection between perfomativity and sex work. Acting has always been connected with prostitution, since before the Jacobean era to very recently. And by connecting performance in a freak show with sex work, the show is pathologizing… Continue reading Support Hos: American Horror Story: Freak Show
The Week in Links—December 20th
You can contribute to longtime sex worker activists Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks to help them pay their medical expenses using the email abrooks2014@hush.com through Giftrocket. Brenneman and Brooks were abused and terrorized by a client over a span of two and a half years—they discussed their devastating story with Tits and Sass co-editors Caty and… Continue reading The Week in Links—December 20th