Ireland and damaged belonging: From Magdalene Laundries to Cupcake Scrub
Still from The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film on Ireland’s Magdalene laundries “It is true,” he said, “that you cannot commit a crime and that the right arm of the law cannot lay its finger on you...
View ArticleSex work and the Senate: Swedish meatballs
Ny spännande möbel från IKEA! Med IKEAs nya PERVERS ställning kan man hotta upp sitt sexförhållande. Go ahead, translate that. There was a time when “the Swedish model” meant either some girl who was...
View ArticleSex imperialism
Let me take that off for you: Oprah’s liberation strip show In early 2001, Oprah Winfrey made a famous appearance at Madison Square Garden, for “V-Day,” Eve Ensler’s enormous, $1000-a-ticket benefit...
View ArticleJulie Bindel sells her mind (not body)
Bindel, apparently being plied with drinks by a white slaver Julie Bindel is a British journalist, a fierce opponent of trans people’s human rights (they’re imitation women), and an abolitionist who...
View ArticleMeet this policeman. He is going to arrest you.
Major-General Amgad el-Shafei, from Al Wafd, May 2015 … “You” can mean many things, of course. Not all my readers are gay or trans or sex workers, though some are (hi there!). Nor are they all...
View ArticleCairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk
Photo taken and publicized by Egyptian journalist Mona Iraqi, showing arrested victims of the 2014 Cairo bathhouse raid over which she presided On June 16, I gave a Human Rights Lecture as part of the...
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