Die-In tonight; Tomorrow is International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers
I’ve got some links to some event locations, great links and 101 materials about sex workers’ rights – feel free to link to your own posts about sex work, the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers, and relevant events in the comments.
...read moreWhat is a representative sex worker?
This is a guest post by Wendy Lyon.
This is a cliché that anyone who advocates for sex workers’ rights will be familiar with. Faced with a sex worker who defies the abolitionist stereotype of a person physically or economically coerced into prostitution, who thinks their job is ok and isn’t desperate to leave it (but could if s/he wanted to), and who argues that the solution to the negative aspects of sex work is decriminalisation and enforceable rights, the inevitable response is: You’re not representative. Why should the law be made for you?
...read moreStopping Police and DAs from Using Condoms to Convict Sex Workers
By Crystal DeBoise, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine Last winter, “Sheila,” a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling session with me at the Sex Workers Project, and was heading out the door. Sheila was seeking counseling from the Sex Workers Project to help her make a career change, but [...]
...read more“Balka: Women, HIV, and Drug Use in Ukraine” short harm reduction documentary
Boosting the signal on this 35-minute documentary. (Note: If you’re unfamiliar with the subject matter, then I recommend reading the short discussion guide when you watch it.) Description: The fall of the Soviet Union led to a surge in injecting drug use and skyrocketing rates of HIV spread through shared injecting equipment. A documentary film [...]
...read moreBDSM versus Sex, part 1: Divide and Conquer
Every once in a while, someone will ask me a question about something BDSM-related that I feel “done with”; I feel like I did all my thinking about those topics, years ago. But it’s still useful to get those questions today, because it forces me to try and understand where my head was at, three [...]
...read moreOutsourcing Porn
This whole article is pretty interesting — who would have guessed that porn only accounts for 4% of the internet? — but this part stood out: So what’s the most popular porn site on the planet? The single most popular adult site in the world is LiveJasmin.com, a webcam site which gets around 32 million [...]
...read moreReview of Decriminalisation in New Zealand
I know I’ve been a little “all sex work all the time” in my posting lately (because it’s important, dammit) and I promise I’m not a total one-trick pony, but I thought some of you might this interesting. I linked to it in the comment thread on my post on the Swedish model. It’s the [...]
...read moreEvery Ho I Know Says So
There’s a video I’d like you all to watch. Produced by sex workers for partners, lovers, dates or potential partners, lovers or dates of sex workers, it’s covers the things that sex workers want you to know. From the blurb: EVERY HO I KNOW SAYS SO is a response to the total lack of accessible [...]
...read moreAmaaazing new site on sex work — and campaign!
I just had the pleasure of discovering a new site on sex work: Sex Work Activists, Allies and You. I’ve consistently had trouble finding a clear online 101 on sex work activism, and the SWAAY site seems to fit the bill. It was started by Furry Girl, a super smart sex worker and writer. I [...]
...read moreOn the Swedish Model
Anyone who’s read anything I’ve written on sex worker rights and legislation over the past however long I’ve been posting about it knows that I’m in favour of decriminalisation of the sex industry. This means that specific laws regulating the sex industry are removed and sex work is governed by the same laws that govern [...]
...read moreDecriminalisation in NSW Under Threat
I mentioned in my entry on the proposed WA sex industry legislation that the system of sex industry decriminalisation in New South Wales, the Australian state I live and work in, is currently under threat. Sex work was decriminalised in NSW primarily in response to massive police corruption. The Wood Royal Commission found that police [...]
...read moreJust a Few Reasons Why the Proposed WA Sex Industry Legislation Is Shit
As some of you may be aware, I live and do sex work in a state of Australia where sex work is currently decriminalised. That decriminalisation is currently under threat, and I’ll cover that in a later post. What I want to talk about in this post, however, is the legal state of affairs in [...]
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