Sex trafficking is the new crack: manufactured "epidemics" as political tools
Last night, I was doing some reading about the most popular political panic of the mid-80s, and stopped to tweet, "Sex work activists should read about the political manufacturing of the crack...
View ArticleQuote: Kristen Hinman on the tax money being spent to "save pimped kids"
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the only agency that keeps track of how many children the legal system rescues from pimps nationwide. The count, which began in June 2003, now exceeds 1,600 as...
View ArticleQuote: Laura Agustín on the reasons some sex workers lie to researchers
"On the subject of ethics in sex work research, we usually think of the insensitivity and careerism of researchers whose interest is in obtaining information they will take credit for. I want to...
View ArticleGoogle is now funding anti-sex worker organizations
This morning, I saw a tweet from a nerd that I knew was going to mean bad news: Google is donating $11.5 million to "fight modern slavery". And what have we learned that politically-loaded phrase...
View ArticleFleshed-out Google campaign page
I've spent almost the entire last 5 days researching the groups that Google is now funding. Please see the campaign page and read something I've put a lot of time info! Why are sex workers' rights...
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Google Seattle protest wrap-up, which way forward?
It's been a busy month, but I wanted to post a photo from last week's Google protest in Seattle. The protest was just myself and @ishfery, a sex worker I'd previously only met on Twitter. (And,...
View ArticleQuote: Emi Koyama on the simplistic language and thinking employed by...
"...SCTNow, along with similar anti-trafficking concerns, uses a simplistic language of good and evil in its discussions of trafficking. In this way, its selling of the anti-trafficking movement...
View ArticleCorey Feldman's life story illustrates how anti-sex worker activists treat...
When I was a youngster, Corey Feldman was my favorite teen idol. I'd watch Stand by Me, License to Drive, Blown Away, and other films of his while swooning. I didn't have a lot of cliche girlie...
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Seattle anti-trafficking campaign ventures (somewhat) outside of the typical...
I've noticed my local government's anti-trafficking ads on the sides of buses, but haven't mentioned them on my blog. Then I really saw one yesterday that did something I have never, ever seen before...
View ArticleIn it for the money? The smart investment is in an anti-sex worker career
Anti-sex work activists endlessly harp on the specter of the multi-billion dollar sex industry. They never want to talk about how individual sex workers only make fairly modest incomes, and for...
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