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— 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: November 23
Transgender Day of Remembrance was this past Tuesday, the 20th, and it’s hard to observe without highlighting that trans women are a particularly vulnerable group, doubly so if they’re women of color, and even more so if they engage in the sex trade. TDOR was founded in 1998 to memorialize the still-unsolved murder of Rita… Continue reading The Week In Links: November 23
The Week In Links: April 13
Immani Love’s “Exotic Dancer (Playground Poetry)” is “Erotic Poetry performed on a public playground with [a] trained pole dancer.” Take the four minutes and treat yourself to this amazing poem song. Trust us. Buzzfeed interviewed Melissa Gira Grant about the tax-filing habits of sex workers. Saskatchewan’s anti-strip club laws are so strict, Saskatoon won’t even… Continue reading The Week In Links: April 13
Dear Tits And Sass: Review-Free Edition
We’ve already established that reviews are one of the most hated aspects of indoor work, so it’s only natural for us to want to avoid them. But how, oh how, can such a feat be accomplished? If you are a current sex worker facing a work-related challenge, you can email info [at] titsandsass.com and we’ll do our… Continue reading Dear Tits And Sass: Review-Free Edition