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Finishing a Paper That Isn’t Going Well…
Escape Fantasy #473: Space Cowboy (this has been bothering me since I drew the picture last night: my unicorn can’t breathe fire in space. even if the unicorn doesn’t need oxygen, and i’ll assume it...
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“Stay Away From Dancehalls”: The Weird Imperial Dialogue of VD
When war is instigated, it’s safe to assume an awful lot of people are about to get fucked. We all know, of course, that VD was an issue for men and women “overseas” at war throughout the 20th century...
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Why Does Representative Poetry Online Bring Up Children in Response to DH...
The lie that postmodernism believes it has uncovered is that there was never anything to lose in the first place. (Armstrong 31) I’ve been meaning to write about DH Lawrence’s “Snake” for awhile...
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The Thing I Wish I Could Say in Response to Every “School Shooting” Ever
I don’t often turn to Eminem for anti-racist analysis, but I think “The Way I Am” is actually the first source I encountered, and the most popular source for sure, with a critical take on community,...
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Skyfall, or “How to Make Sure Sex Workers Know Their Lives are Worthless, in...
I have to come out about something: I love action movies. The skimpier the plot, and the more the explosions, the better. There are few things I’d rather do than sit down with the Die Hard franchise...
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Homophobia, Rape and the Unspeakable in Nick Cave’s “Lawless”
“I’m a bad motherfucker, don’t you know / And I’ll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy’s asshole …” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Stagger Lee” In Nick Cave’s 1995 take on the...
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Trucks and Mud
(This post details a souped-up truck competition from a couple of years ago at the “Maynooth Days” fair, which takes place annually over the Labour Day long weekend in Maynooth, ON.) The mud bog was...
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A Sodomy Obsession (Not Mine This Time)
A couple of weeks ago, an absolutely vile methodologically questionable study was released exclusively toNewsweek on the lives and habits of clients of prostitutes in the Boston area. You may be saying...
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Rights for Sex Workers: Housing, Income, Safety and Wellbeing, Education
It’s that time of year again – Sex Workers’ Rights Day is almost here! There are two days each year designed to address sex workers’ second-class status in most of society: on December 17th we mark the...
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Traducción: “Las Trabajadoras del Sexo de las Calles Defendemos la...
Esta es una traducción de la declaración colectiva del 3 de marzo 2013 de Maggie’s: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project sobre los derechos de las trabajadoras del sexo de las calles. Estoy...
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FYI, Julie Bindel: Your Ideas About Sex Work Reseach Affect Sex Worker Students
Pile of boring-ass papers (just like your research). Graduate students, sex workers: let’s talk. How would you like to get paid hundreds of dollars an hour for doing your boring-ass project that nobody...
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Unhappy Hooking, or Why I’m Giving Up On Being Positive
Sex positivity isn’t cutting it Sure, I see myself reflected in feminist writing about sex work. I come right after “although” and right before a list of stereotype-busting truths about those other sex...
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A Whole Bunch of Great Sex Worker Blog Posts
I mentioned to a couple of folks that I had used their blogs or posts for a paper, and I promised to post a bibliography when I had one ready. For those who are curious, here it is. It’s far from every...
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Reading List for an Imaginary Class on Sex Work and Sex Workers
Note: This class does not actually exist. I made the syllabus as a sample for a job application (for a job I am not at all qualified for and am unlikely to actually get), and now I’m just showing it...
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“Love Comes First”
My union is in the middle of bargaining right now, which at the moment looks more like being handed a shit deal by the employer, who thinks they’re in a good position to strongarm us (which in all...
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Arguing about the Nordic Model and family court
This is another repost of an email I sent to the PAR-L listserv, an email discussion list for feminists in Canada. The post I was responding to denied that the continued criminalization of sex work in...
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Feminism For Everyone! (Except Sex Workers and Trans Women)
Apparently this is my new blog theme: re-posting my letters to that fucking feminist listserv and making all kinds of GAH ARGH UGH noises while I do it. (Also, I really doubt this one will pass the...
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Same Sex Work Class, Different Course Design
So I did not get a job teaching a sex work class — there is a guy with more seniority who usually teaches it, and happens to be qualified for it, who was maybe gonna leave, but then he didn’t. I get to...
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Just Say No: Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Work in School
Before I finished my BA, I encountered a social worker who was working on her MA. Her politics were generally pro-decriminalization, but she also liked to trade in horror stories about women whose...
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MOAR READING
I’ve added a page to this blog. It’s an archive of reading lists I sometimes make for funsies on Twitter. The first two links are to lists of open-access scholarly articles on: Indigenous sex work,...
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