Posts Tagged ‘sex work’

There were a lot of things I loved about doing the Speak Up! training, but I am really excited about this public service announcement. I had the idea for this video last year but hadn’t had the opportunity to see it through until the media training. It’s just a minute long – check it out, [...]

Since the story of the murder of a NYC-based sex worker in Boston broke last week, I’ve been keeping up on the details of the story mostly through Twitter and the enthusiasm and resources of sex worker advocates. Eliyanna and I used the sad and frustrating example of this story during the Speak Up media [...]

By which I mean, my heart was broken by feminism, and now I’m working on healing it. I have other fractured parts of my heart too: some fixable, some persistent shards, but this isn’t about that. Over the past few years my relationship with feminism has been difficult and sometimes bordering on abusive (I would [...]

(Role Models, Part 2) Over the past month, I have had several experiences that have made my brain churn around the issues of movement-making, support, and community. When I went to the International Sex Worker Rights Day potluck dinner, I arrived a little late with my new pal and recent transplant to the East Coast, [...]

At the end of February, the International Women’s Health Coalition did an Advocacy in Practice training for fourteen youth sexual rights activists from around the world, in which we gave them tools and strategies to lobby at the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women (watch a video of three assessments of [...]

$pread Magazine’s “Dance Party on the Downturn” A Launch Party for Issue 4.4 The slutty staffers of $pread Magazine (www.spreadmagazine.org), a publication by and for people in the sex industry, are throwing a dance party for the launch of their hard-hitting “The Economy” Issue. DJ Tanner and DJ Sir Loins’ll be spinning while a grab-bag [...]

I got the following email from Lux Alptraum, who these days is the editor of Fleshbot but once upon a time was an alt porn impresario at That Strange Girl: About two and a half years ago, Wendy Shalit did a phone interview with me for a book she was working on. I was nervous [...]

Along with some former $pread Magazine staff members, I’m the co-founder of Sex Work Awareness, an organization that works toward the destigmatization of sex workers. Our work is partly focused on creating better information and resources about sex workers for the public and for journalists. Our online project Sex Work 101 is the tip of [...]

This is also cross-posted at Bound Not Gagged. That is the tagline for the first ever African sex worker-led conference, which is happening next week in Johannesburg, South Africa. Here’s a little bit of information about the conference grabbed from the PDF of the conference announcement: The conference will include sex worker-only activities in order [...]

This is the speech I gave at the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers vigil in Washington Square at 7 pm on December 17, 2008. Every year I come to this event, and every year, in the hour before the vigil, I seriously consider not showing up, because it’s hard to be here, [...]