Possibly cancelled A&E reality TV show 8 Minutes reneged on its promise to help sex workers. Some argue that their lives were made worse after filming. The subsequent backlash has attracted a lot of negative press for the show; representatives from the show don’t seem to be responding to any journalists’ inquiries, including our own… Continue reading The Week In Links—May 8th
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The Week In Links—November 28th
Trans and sex workers’ rights activist Monica Jones appealed her conviction on false charges of “manifesting prostitution” this Monday. In related news, Project ROSE, the criminally wrongheaded alliance between the Arizona State School of Social Work and the Phoenix police in which sex workers were arrested in stings and funneled into jail or diversion programs,… Continue reading The Week In Links—November 28th
The Week in Links—November 14th
Amanda Brooks published this post about the ordeal a client put her and Jill Brenneman through over the past two years. It’s a horrifying and compelling must-read. Scarlet Road, a documentary about an Australian escort and her disabled clients, is showing at the Columbus International Film Fest. An Irish sex work abolitionist group is making… Continue reading The Week in Links—November 14th
The Week in Links—November 7th
Viktoria, a new film about migrant sex workers in Switzerland, is out now in that country. Switzerland attracts sex workers from Hungary, although prejudices against the Roma—a group many of the migrants belong to—color their reception. Jordan Flaherty, interviewed on this site about his reporting on Project ROSE, has a new story out about how Alaska’s… Continue reading The Week in Links—November 7th
The Week In Links—December 13
The New York Times ran an editorial endorsing the pending legislation in France to criminalize the clients of sex workers. The editorial qualifies its opinion by stating: “Nine out of 10 prostitutes in France are reported to be of foreign origin, and many are presumed to be victims of sex traffickers.” Um, source? Let’s join… Continue reading The Week In Links—December 13