Sitting in a warm room in Phnom Penh with several other women from the Asia Pacific region, Kamalabai Pani, a sex worker and a board member of Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP, Prostitutes’ Collective Against Injustice) in India, became visibly upset when discussion turned to the efforts of U.S.-led feminist groups to discredit several United… Continue reading “Dragged Off By The Hair”: An Indian Sex Worker Recalls a Raid
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Equality Now, Or Else?
While Western-led feminist groups such as Equality Now continue to conflate consensual sex work with trafficking and violence, where do sex workers themselves fit into concepts of feminism and gender equality, especially if they live in countries like India? “When you are coming from a place like India, you have the whole caste system, stigma… Continue reading Equality Now, Or Else?
The Week In Links—September 6th
This story by Missy Wilkinson about the business slowdown in New Orleans strip clubs during the summer nails that “bad season” feeling so common in hot climates: “It’s also a time when she experiences a phenomenon she calls ‘bad-busy’: a club crowded with people who may pay the cover charge and buy a drink, but… Continue reading The Week In Links—September 6th
The Week In Links–May 31st
Brooklyn prosecutors advised local police to stop confiscating condoms as evidence of prostitution. Labour MSP Rhoda Grant lodged a Members Bill to criminalize the purchase of sex in the Scottish Parliament. The Daily Record reports the sobering revelation that a public consultation on the proposed Purchase of Sex Bill found almost 80 per cent of respondents would back… Continue reading The Week In Links–May 31st
Report From 2011’s Sex Worker Open University
I’ve been a sex worker rights activist for going on a decade now, and I’ve lived in New York all that time. My focus in the early years was very local, meaning that I was concerned with what was happening in my own life and the lives of the people I worked with and cared… Continue reading Report From 2011’s Sex Worker Open University