Registration for the Desiree Alliance Conference is still open with hotel room discounts until July 7th. Tensions over escorting simmer in rural Australian towns, where touring sex workers follow the market that transient miners create, even after the Queensland Supreme Court upheld a ruling that allows hotel owners to refuse accommodations to sex workers. Beijing… Continue reading The Week In Links—June 28th
Tag: violence against sex workers
Quote of the Week
It is argued by some that patriarchy and colonialism are at the root of sex work, and therefore sex work should be abolished. Can’t the same be said of marriage? Aren’t Indigenous women violated, raped and murdered by intimate partners, including spouses, at three times the rate of Canadian women? If our streets, workplaces and… Continue reading Quote of the Week
The Week In Links-June 14th
Yesterday hearings on Bedford v. Canada, a case challenging the constitutionality of laws that ban “bawdy houses”, “communication for the purposes of prostitution”, and “living off the avails of prostitution”, began in Canada’s Supreme Court. Sex workers and their supporters took to the streets in several Canadian cities last Saturday to call for the decriminalization of… Continue reading The Week In Links-June 14th
How Texas Made Ezekiel Gilbert’s Aquittal Possible
Last week, social media flooded with outrage over the acquittal of Ezekiel Gilbert for the murder of Lenora Ivie Frago. On December 24, 2009, Gilbert and Frago met via Craigslist and agreed that he would pay her $150 for her time as a companion. Time, Gilbert argued, that was supposed to include sex. Frago left… Continue reading How Texas Made Ezekiel Gilbert’s Aquittal Possible
The Week In Links–June 7th
International Sex Workers’ Day was celebrated world wide last Sunday on June 2nd. Here’s some footage of French sex workers protesting in Place Pigalle for the occasion. Australian sex workers’ rights orgs joined forces that day, rallying on the steps of Parliament to support a bill that would decriminalize sex work in South Australia. We were briefly shocked into… Continue reading The Week In Links–June 7th