Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist writer who has spent at least five years on this site waging misogynist harassment campaigns against sex workers and trans women, as if it were all she had for a content strategy… is finally suspended. pic.twitter.com/lo9sW9niv8 — Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) November 24, 2018 Meghan Murphy was booted from… Continue reading Gender Critical Feminism is Fascism
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Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
On August 24, a police officer on duty with the Columbus, Ohio police department named Andrew Mitchell shot and killed sex worker Donna Dalton, leaving her two children motherless. Like others who habitually inflict state sanctioned violence onto the bodies of marginalized people, Mitchell says he “feared” for his life, despite friends describing Dalton as… Continue reading Donna Dalton, Jill Filipovic, And The Eternal Lightness of Anti-Sex Worker Feminist Being
Surviving As Working Class After Backpage
Content warning: This post contains discussion and accounts of trafficking, debt bondage, and exploitation, both in the context of sex trafficking and trafficking in another industry. There are also brief references to experiences of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, custody loss, structural violence from criminalization, and violence against sex workers. In the last four… Continue reading Surviving As Working Class After Backpage
Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On—The Production
I first heard that a sequel to Hot Girls Wanted was being made about three months ago. A performer I followed posted about being approached for filming. He rejected the offer immediately. I shared his discomfort. The first Hot Girls Wanted was a documentary film carefully designed to manipulate the viewer into feeling disgust towards… Continue reading Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On—The Production
White Feminism, White Supremacy, White Sex Workers
A provocative critique of anti-trafficking celebrity spokesman Ashton Kutcher and the rescue industry complex penned by sex trafficking survivor (and Tits and Sass contributor) Laura LeMoon is making the rounds. Predictably, white people are pissed. “Kutcher is just trying to help!” exclaim my white, cishet acquaintances on Facebook, clearly missing LeMoon’s point that “being a… Continue reading White Feminism, White Supremacy, White Sex Workers