Sex workers in the Bay Area hosted a registration drive for Obamacare and enrolled nearly 40 peopleAnother reason why Obamacare is awesome!
"You don’t end up having more street crime because of strip clubs," said Mariana Valvarde, a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto. "At least there’s no evidence of that. It’s a myth."
Valvarde said there are few studies on whether strip clubs cause an increase in crime, but one of the studies she has read indicated allnight gas stations and convenience stores are associated with more crime than strip clubs.
Strip clubs tend to have a lot of security and make sure their patrons and performers are safe, said Valvarde.
She agreed with Davis that placing such venues in isolated spots like industrial areas can be unsafe for the women who work there.
"They just go by myths and stereotypes and don’t talk to the women involved in the industry," Valvarde said of the people who make laws and bylaws.
”"Should strip clubs be isolated?"
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When I was about 18 years old, I found a book written by Petra Östergren called "Porr, Horor och Feminister" (Porn, whores and feminists). I don’t think the book has ever been translated into any other language, sadly. But perhaps it is understandable, seeing as it focuses a lot on the debate…
Our community organizer Emma Caterine talks to folks in the Bronx about the practice of using condoms as evidence as part of October 22nd National Day Against Police Violence.
Sex Work & Serenity | Maggie Mayhem Speaks
Excellent dissection of Whedon’s depiction of sex work in Firefly and Serenity. Now I have the words to describe why it bothered me so much and why I cringe every time Whedon is hailed as some feminist icon. Prohint: he’s not.
It’s totally possible to enjoy his shows while remaining critical of them, but he hasn’t impressed me lately.
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Though all of us at RedUP are total Buffy-heads, it is important to critique what we or do not call feminist.
The Honey Bringer - a half hour documentary about the Sex Worker Freedom Festival, which took place in Kolkata in July 2012.
I am writing regarding Vancouver Rape Relief’s (VRR’s) intent to host Janice Raymond at their “Montreal Massacre Memorial 2013” event hosted by Vancouver Public Library (VPL) on Nov. 30, 2013. Ms. Raymond is to deliver a talk titled “Prostitution: Not a Job, not a Choice”. Further to Raymond’s controversial stance on prostitution, you are likely aware of Raymond’s notorious stance toward transgender [SIC] people, too. I am requesting that space be made available to both transgender communities and sex work communities to respond to Ms. Raymond when she speaks at VPL.
Pics of the Red Umbrella Diaries night of stories and theatre at Joe’s Pub! It was an amazing night, beyond our expectations. It’s been a week since our big show in front of an audience of 200, and we are digging into the footage already and working on the films! We’re producing a short film about the Trans Women’s Theatre Troupe as well as a feature about the seven sex worker storytellers. See the trailer for the feature film here.
Harm Reduction International have launched a great new resource on Women Who Inject Drugs and the Overlap between Sex Work and Drug Use at the 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), in Bangkok.
Link to events that took place between Mike and a provider. EXTREME trigger warning for abuse, violence, rape, ignoring of safe word, etc.
One thing that always interests me about the pro-porn/sex work/prostitution arguments is that is it’s often from a very Western perspective and doesn’t consider the impact of Western sexual ideology/sex role stereotypes perpetuated through pornography in developing/Non-Western countries.
Like,…
Warning: the intersection of colonialism and abolitionism. Nicholas Kristof would be proud. There is so much wrong here I’m not even sure how to approach criticizing it. What about sex work media created by and for people in the Global South? What about countries like Thailand, India, and Kenya with histories of sex work activism and organizing that pre-date such organizing happening in “Western” countries? I’ve read and heard countless stories (and here and here) by those in the sex trades from all around the world: my question for the OP is, besides Somaly Mam, who have you listened to? The white American abolitionists who feel they have the right to tell everyone how these people feel?-Emma C.
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Sexy & Safe Healthcare Days are fun & free educational events for sex workers, their families, and allies who wish to learn more about the new health exchange market created by the Affordable Care Act.
Featuring FREE:
- Health & STI screenings from Nevada Health Centers
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Home Makeover? More like bone makeover.People make fun, but I actually think this is really sweet. Why NOT create a clean, happy place for local ladies working? The condoms and clean panties are a nice touch.
This may just be one big stunt, but if it benefits ours…then I struggle to find fault in it.
-SW10
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Over the next two decades, the number of Americans with oropharyngeal cancer is projected to roughly double. Most of the cases, doctors have realized in recent years, are caused by a preventable infection.
We are exploited like fuck, to degrees that cis women of similar axes don’t really experience.
There’s a lot of fetishy fucked tropes involved and oodles of transmisogyny and basically it’s really hard to find porn or hentai that doesn’t exploit the shit out of us for a purely cis gaze, taking advantage of and reifying super damaging stereotypes and elements of transmisogyny.
This is not the fault of any of us who are in porn (hentai’s a bit different as it’s drawn and often uses cis voice actors), and there are absolutely trans women who’ve had good experiences and enjoy their jobs in visual/audio media sex work. There’s also a good amount of “made for trans girls/by trans girls” porn that is empowering and great and avoids that awful shit because cis people aren’t in charge of it and dfab trans people aren’t in charge of it because cisfucks and dfab trans people ruin everything transmisogyny wise.
So there’s a lot of stuff that needs changing but you know who should be the leaders of that change and the voices most listened to on how to change things in a way that benefits trans girls in porn? Trans girls in porn should be.
So I (and you) should be following their lead and listening to what they need first and foremost.
That’s the limit to my thoughts on it. Anything else you want to know you should really look at the writings of sex worker trans girls.
