St. James Infirmary is launching a new media campaign with sex work PSAs on San Francisco Muni buses, similar to the Turn Off the Blue Light campaign in Ireland. If you’re a sex worker in San Francisco, check out the Media Launch Party this weekend. The Second Annual American Pole Fitness Championships are taking place in… Continue reading The Week in Links: October 14
Tag: Melissa Gira Grant
The Language of Selling Yourself
Sex writer Melissa Gira Grant published a piece in the Guardian last week questioning the rhetoric of anti-sex work activists—particularly Ashton Kutcher, who’s been collaborating with wife Demi Moore in a highly publicized “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” campaign. (Kutcher and Moore’s “activism” has been discussed previously in several other Tits and Sass posts, like… Continue reading The Language of Selling Yourself
The Week In Links: July 15
New York Gov. Cuomo is considering a bill that would increase penalties for those convicted of street prostitution. You can sign a petition discouraging him from doing so. Whorelover is an anthology being compiled of essays from the partners of sex workers. Today is the last day for submissions. Over the past three years, 44 women have been… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 15
Special AK vs VV Roundup
Tits and Sass will be coming back from July 4th with a bang. Tuesday will see the release of no less than four—yes, four!—posts related to the blowup between activist wannabe Ashton Kutcher and activist caller-outer The Village Voice. In the meantime, feel free to read up on the situation at the following T&S endorsed spots… Continue reading Special AK vs VV Roundup
The Week In Links: May 13
Police are now suggesting more than one serial killer has been using Long Island’s Gilgo Beach for hiding (female, often sex worker) victims’ remains. Pictures have been released of two men wanted for questioning about the assault and robbery of two different prostitutes working in midtown Manhattan. (Yes, the article is tone deaf and offensive—yet… Continue reading The Week In Links: May 13