Comments on: Tits and Sass https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/ By and about sex workers Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: The Week In Links—August 9th https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-11003 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:01:08 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-11003 […] Vera (interviewed here by Kat about her stripper photography) had a beautiful excerpt of her photo essay about her friend, sex worker Eden, up at […]

]]> By: Carmen https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-2014 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:12:47 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-2014 Gosh. I’ve got to stop reading your blog and DO something but I need to save this. I want to see all the books you mentioned here !

]]> By: Sex Work Snobbery | Tits and Sass https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-1846 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:01:18 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-1846 […] of my favorite aspects of sex work is the camaraderie. I often feel that I’m in a secret society; I’ve had people pull me aside and confess […]

]]> By: The Weekly Unwrap | Tits and Sass https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-947 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:04:03 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-947 […] Kat’s interview with San Francisco strip club documentary photographer Alicia Vera. […]

]]> By: Charlotte Shane https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-927 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:31:53 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-927 The idea of T&S coming so far after being only a blank page, the connections between sex workers… This post had me feeling a little sentimental. (Or maybe that’s just my PMS?) All of my closest female friends in adulthood have been women I’ve met through sex work. I’ve never stripped, but even through webcam work and escorting, the connections I made with other women doing the same were/are so precious to me. I always think of my best friend, who is former sex worker, saying, “regular friendships just don’t have the same intensity.” It’s so true.

]]> By: Rocket https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-925 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:53:42 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-925 Elle, I’m working on a project that ties into this, but with a videographer. Help me spread the word? Trying to see who’s interested in participating.

]]> By: Elle https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-924 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:49:57 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-924 Terry Richardson shouldn’t even be called a ‘photographer’.

I had been thinking that strippers in PDX should find some kind of photo-portraiture-project, contrasting our day and work wear. I think the best part of coming and leaving a shift is seeing what we wear for ourselves.

]]> By: Jamie https://titsandsass.com/tits-and-sass/#comment-923 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:49:23 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=3474#comment-923 If you haven’t already, have a look at Susan Meiselas’ Carnival Strippers for a photographic document of a previous era of sex performance. To me, it creates a subtle portrait of the show and avoids any easy conclusions about exploitation. Not bad for an aspiring photojournalist! It also manages to reflect upon the voyeurism of the photographer and as such the viewer. I’m a bit surprised you like the diCorcia work, it seems quite lacking in psychological depth which makes it rather unreflectively voyeuristic, seeming to distance the viewer from the performers. I guess you could say it is a celebration of their beauty or talent but it doesn’t make me feel I know anything more about the dancers, or even intrigue me to know more. I’d say Alicia Vera’s photos are much more interesting than diCorcia’s.

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