The Week In Links—June 26th

yeah i'll watch your show about murdered sex workers. As long as Tim Riggins is in it.

Season Two of True Detective maintains the original’s fixation on sex workers. I’m wary, but love me some Tim Riggins, so I’ll be watching! Tits and Sass contributor Juniper Fitzgerald is the latest in a chorus of voices pointing out that the current trafficking hysteria is just history repeating itself. Children from families in poverty are also… Continue reading The Week In Links—June 26th

The Week In Links—October 31

Darren Vann, the man accused of targeting sex workers and killing seven women in Indiana, says he messed up by killing his last victim, Afrikka Hardy in Hammond instead of Gary. (True remorse.) S.E. Smith asks how a convicted sex offender was able to murder at least seven women over the past few decades. Gary… Continue reading The Week In Links—October 31

The Week In Links—July 11

Petite Jasmine (Photo via her Facebook page, courtesy of Rose Alliance)

Today marks on year since the murder of Petite Jasmine. Reading about her life and death is the most powerful argument we know against the Nordic Model. Cool, some tourist filmmakers are fundraising to shoot a documentary in Dallas strip clubs. “The project ‘was started because the strip club and stripper industry was one of… Continue reading The Week In Links—July 11

The Week In Links—June 27

The front page of myredbook.com post-seizure (screenshot)

    In a terrible blow for Bay Area sex workers, the sites MyRedbook.com and SFRedbook.com were shut down by the FBI, accused of money laundering and facilitating prostitution.  Redbook was one of the few free advertising sites left where sex workers could advertise, talk to and screen clients with a degree of distance. Steph Key, a member… Continue reading The Week In Links—June 27

The Week In Links—May 30th

screencap from Our Better World's video about Madam's School For Sex Workers

Sex workers in Mumbai are starting a school for sex workers, run by sex workers. Somaly Mam steps down a week after Newsweek officially revealed what inquiring journalists had long known: Mam fabricated her past as a trafficked woman and paid other women and girls to tell juicy lies to the public. Newsweek covered Mam’s… Continue reading The Week In Links—May 30th