Monica Jones was barred from entering Australia for the last three weeks of her student placement and ultimately deported back to the United States. Eloise Brook at the Guardian wrote an intelligent and pointed response, asking how a social work student becomes a national threat. Gloria Steinem’s latest move, signing the open letter to the AP… Continue reading The Week in Links—December 5th
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The Week In Links—October 11th
An open letter extravaganza began this week when Sinead O’Connor wrote to Miley Cyrus, warning her that the music industry “will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think its[sic] what YOU wanted.. and when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, ‘they’ will be sunning themselves… Continue reading The Week In Links—October 11th
Week In Links—September 27th
Equality Now and other abolitionist groups campaigned against the UN’s recommendation to decriminalize sex work. Don’t read the articles linked unless you have a strong stomach. Melissa Gira Grant documented a particularly exasperating twitter exchange with Equality Now’s Rachel Moran on her blog, in which Moran claimed that “‘sex workers’ don’t exist.” Scott Long also provides some valuable context. The New York… Continue reading Week In Links—September 27th