Happy Friday, unicorns. Hope you’re not eating a Chipotle burrito while reading this.
Tag: sex work
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Yay Marriage! What’s Next?
Now that Notorious RBG and her crew used some jiggery-pokery, marriage equality is the law of the land. Everybody seems to be asking, what is next?
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News in Asia
I’ll be honest; the news this week makes me want to rage quit the world slightly more than usual.
Here’s what we read this week:
So much to read!
It’s rare for media to provide a multi-dimensional portrait of sex workers. It’s even rarer when it comes from a media outlet responsible for such titles as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
This week’s dispatches have a totally cute picture of me as She-Ra. So read ’em!
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This Week in Misogyny
I love debunking hoaxes and bullshit “studies.” I hate all the other terrible things I have to tell you about. You win some, you lose some. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)
I put these links together before the Hobby Lobby decision, and I’m sure much will be written about it this week. We’ll start off with Ginsburg’s dissent and then move on to the ladyblogland that was before SCOTUS made us all cry tears of rage.
Get your clicking fingers ready, because ladyblogland delivered this past week.
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Pro Tips: Ain’t No Such Thing As A Pro
Q. When I was 19, I met and slept with a guy I met on the Internet. He flew out to where I lived, and we spent a week together in a hotel. Not the greatest experience, though it was consensual. Essentially, I wasn’t attracted to him in the least, but I didn’t want to enter […]
No one’s sexual road looks the same; though, it can be said that there is a common thread that links us all: the desire to speak.
So here I am trying to draft this article for the umpteenth time. It was realising how hard I was finding it to just get the words out, that I realised some of my … issues with the topic at hand.
There really isn’t anything that solicits such polarized reactions from people as talking about prostitution. Arguments extend on all sides, with conservative family value types waxing on the inherent “immoral” nature of the profession (these same folks are usually participating in the very thing they have built such a public platform against), feminist groups decrying […]
Audacia Ray is a woman I’ve admired from afar for a few years now. The writer, activist, and sex worker rights advocate first caught my attention with her top-notch book, Naked On The Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In On Internet Sexploration, which explored women using the internet as a sexual space. I finally worked up […]