Leave Cardi Alone

Like, I had to go strip. I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to fuck me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go to this hotel,’ and I’d drug ni**as up, and I’d rob them. That’s what I used to do! Nothing was motherfucking handed to me, my ni**a. Nothing. Full disclosure: I don’t actually… Continue reading Leave Cardi Alone

If You Want to Understand the Violence White Men are Capable of, Ask Any Sex Worker

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As a Vegas resident and sex worker for nearly a decade, the massacre there hits close to home. Too close, actually, as knowledge of the shooter’s proclivities for erotic services surface. In fact, my first response to images of the shooter was, “He looks familiar.” I chalked it up to the fact that every white… Continue reading If You Want to Understand the Violence White Men are Capable of, Ask Any Sex Worker

Everybody Has Their Own Hustle: An Interview With Jacq The Stripper

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Jacqueline Frances has drawn attention and acclaim with her deceptively simple cartoons of everyday strip club doings.  The simplicity of her comics draws you in, and before you know it, you’re seeing men and masculinity from a sex workers’  view that few people can bring themselves to take on consciously. Frances toured last year with her… Continue reading Everybody Has Their Own Hustle: An Interview With Jacq The Stripper

What Trump Means For Sex Workers

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It is not incidental that Prop 60 in California mandating condom use in porn was defeated in the same election cycle as marijuana was legalized in many states and Donald Trump ascended to the presidency. We are witnessing the inherent contradictions of a neoliberal marketplace, contradictions that should make sex workers and our allies reconsider… Continue reading What Trump Means For Sex Workers

Support Hos: True Detective

Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle. Don't you hate it when cops are hot?

One of my partners cautioned me that I might take issue with the treatment of sex workers in season one of True Detective. Yet somehow, I completely forgot their warning, and found myself marathoning it over a few days several months ago. The first season is a continual whorephobic, misogynistic trainwreck, so it’s difficult for… Continue reading Support Hos: True Detective