Sex workers from Kolkata took to the streets for May Day, demanding legalization and changes to the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. Mexican sex workers also held a march in Mexico City. Several prominent sex worker organisations have been denied permission to intervene in the Supreme Court Bedford v. Canada appeal on June 13th. In a press statement from Maggie’s, Stella and POWER, Canadian… Continue reading The Week In Links–May 3rd
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My Sex Work Bucket List: Johanna
Before I became a hooker I was broke and kind of miserable, and while I’ve been both of those things since then as well, sex work has become a central and fulfilling part of my life. As a certified crazy person, whoring is a viable option for me where other more structured employment isn’t, and… Continue reading My Sex Work Bucket List: Johanna
Letter From An Extras Girl: If It’s So Easy, Why Haven’t You Done It?
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.—Yoda Hola Hater, Thanks for the helpful suggestions in “An Open Letter to the Extras Girl.” You know, for telling me how to do my job. Don’t take it personally if I ignore them. This is business, girl, and… Continue reading Letter From An Extras Girl: If It’s So Easy, Why Haven’t You Done It?
An Open Letter From A Detroit Extras Girl
This is one of three responses to Josephine’s “An Open Letter to the Extras Girl” that we’ll be running this week. First up is M, a dancer who, like Josephine, works in Detroit. On a sweltering August afternoon in 2012, I walked through the impossibly heavy glass doors of the glitziest strip club in Detroit.… Continue reading An Open Letter From A Detroit Extras Girl
Quote Of The Week
Smith didn’t just consider it irrelevant to ask these women what the law has meant (and hasn’t meant) to them. She also refused to engage with the many sex workers who tweeted her to point out this omission […] She allowed police officers – people who see it as their mission to drive sex workers out of… Continue reading Quote Of The Week