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Sex work, drugs, stigma
My friend and colleague Akim Ade Larcher, originally from St. Lucia in the balmy Caribbean but now working in cold Toronto, finds Canada colder than it should be. Blamelessly placid though the country...
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Listen to me, not the prostitute. I said: Listen to ME!
You can't say that here: the rejected billboard The question of UK aid linkage concerns me because of what I’ve always taken as an issue basic to activist politics: representation. Who speaks for whom?...
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Sex workers on feminism
It’s movie night! This video, made by sex workers, features sex workers speaking out about women’s right “to choose what happens to one’s body and to control what happens to one’s body.” It’s a...
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Occupy sex
fist the powers that be Branded deep in Harvard’s institutional psyche is the trauma of the 1969 student strike, when protesters occupied the president’s office and shut the school down. They were...
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Sex trafficking: The numbers game
Maggie McNeill ties into the wildly fluctuating figures that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore and their prohibit-prostitution acolytes use to push the idea that child sex trafficking is a massive crisis...
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The Rescue Industry
Kristof in Tahrir: Is that a brothel, or a KFC? During the Egyptian Revolution, when the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof was wandering Midan Tahrir giving the uprising his ponderous approval, I told...
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ProstitutionSpeak, ideology, and death
"Moral Reform Directory" of 1839: This town is a horrible sump of abominable corruption, and here are the addresses The God’s honest truth is, I get so depressed when I think about sex work. Nothing...
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Tales of the Night Fairies
Tomorrow, March 3, is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day. One of the best films about sex workers I’ve ever seen is Shohini Ghosh’s Tales of the Night Fairies, a lovely and — if one can use the term...
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O Canada, just out of curiosity I was wondering how much an hour for thee?
Tell it to the judge: Plaintiff Terri-Jean Bedford, a profesional dominatrix Action Canada for Population and Development points out that on Monday, the Court of Appeal in the Canadian province of...
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“I feel like a citizen”: Canada’s sex-work decision
Warmer indoors, but still cold on the streets: Sex workers' demonstration in Ottawa, January 2012 Partial but major victory today in Canada’s sex-work court case. The full decision is here, and a...
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The emergency of everyday life: What activists who care about the Russia...
This town’s not big enough for Johnny Weir and me: Life-size wax figure of Stalin sits in his former dacha in Sochi One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted...
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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...
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Sex 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...
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Sex 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...
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Julie 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...
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Meet 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...
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