I think Siouxsie Q calls herself that in homage to Siouxsie of the Banshees, not as an attempt to appropriate the culture of First Nations.

Am I the only person who sees a weird contradiction between Chris Hall/SF Weekly on the one hand (rightly) attacking racism in alt and sex-positive communities on one hand, and on the other hand offering positive coverage to a white girl calling herself “Siouxie”?

Ah, no worries, Caty. I was in SWOP-Chicago for a while and we planned on doing a counter-protest to a religious group that was gathering to protest the opening of a strip club on the far South Side. That’s why I brought that up.

@Wendy: I detest that “no little girl ever says…” line. I wanted to be a ballerina but I am decidedly happier where I am now.

I don’t have time for being involved with SWOP right now, though I am a fan.

I talked to another dancer at work who had to deal with these born-agains at another club, and she thinks they’re from a group called Eve’s Angels. I went to the website (evesangels.org) and couldn’t find photos of the ones who I talked to, but the mission statement for the group sounds identical to what the people I tried to hustle were attempting to do. There is a part on the website that says, “No little girl says, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a stripper’.” Actually, did say that when I was little and still think it is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life.

One dangerous one that is well known in Canada is http://www.cowboysdiary.info/wordpress. The man who hosts this site refers to these women as liars, scammers, thieves…and far worse.

Put an end to hate sites like this and working girls will have a safer playing field.

Yes, good idea! Sorry I couldn’t think of something more effective than exposing them on TAS in my original comment.

You should tell SWOP-Chicago about this as well, assuming you’re not currently involved with them. I think they’d be interested to know: http://redlightchicago.wordpress.com/contact-us/

So sorry you have to deal with that. I remember this client who tried to get me to leave the business and convert me to Messianic Judaism, then harassed me over the phone with his dogma when I refused to see him and tolerate his preaching anymore. Luckily, as an escort, I only ever have to deal with one of these nuts at a time at work, assuming they get through my screening. Do you know what this ‘organization’ calls themselves or if they have a website?

Duh. I went straight to the Oregonian link and missed your link to Koyama’s blog post. I googled and read her original post from 2010. There’s a lot of similarity to the PolitiFact piece. And then I finally noticed and followed your link to her 2013 post.

Assuming that Janie Har is a political reporter, sex work is probably well outside of anything she normally covers. The PolitiFact format requires her to make a public evaluation of politician’s statements. In fairness to her, that’s probably difficult when:
1) she’s unfamiliar with the subject
2) few experts are willing to say anything definite
3) the subject is extremely controversial

Of course, none of that excuses plagiarism, if indeed she plagiarized Koyama. And as someone who is supposedly providing a public fact-checking service, she has no excuse for not following up on Roe-Sepowitz’s “statistical impossibility” statement.