March 2013
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“I feel like our culture, as a movement, has come to revolve around either the...”
– Sabrina Morgan (via narratrix, but curious about the original source!)
December 2012
30 posts
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
– Truman Capote (via macarontea) (via invisiblecyborg)
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– e. e. cummings (via vulgarlovers)
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“Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to...”
– From Rant, by Chuck Palahnuik
(via moviesmusicart)
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How...”
– Ray Bradbury (via haldis)
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“Restrictive laws which seek to prohibit behaviour for which there is a...”
– Australian Criminology Institute
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“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover...”
– William Henry Bragg
(via scienceisbeauty)
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wallswillcrumble:
I am just so done with women who put down sex workers. Shut the fuck up. YOU are holding the feminist movement back. Move out of the way.
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Treating Violence Against Sex Workers as a Hate... →
by Rosie Campbell and Shelly Stoops
Over the last decade sex work projects, the police and other agencies in Liverpool (United Kingdom) have been addressing violence against sex workers, encouraging reporting and taking crimes committed against sex workers seriously. In recent years Armistead Street, a sex work outreach and support project in Liverpool, has worked with Merseyside Police to...
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“How is it that as a society, we have grown so accustomed and seemingly...”
– Vanessa Pinto, HuffPo: December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
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Can We End Violence Against Sex Workers? →
by Chi Mgbako
December 17th marks the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Sex workers and their allies, clustered in intimate gatherings in cities around the world, will light candles and read aloud the names of sex workers who have been victims of violence. These names will echo into a world indifferent to their suffering.
The event will likely pass with...
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It is not just violent clients who hurt sex... →
by Audacia Ray
The first time Kyomya Macklean did sex work, her client turned violent after she refused to have sex without a condom. As she fought back, she remembers him saying: “I can kill you bitch! After all, you are just a slut who sells your body to earn a living.” As he assaulted her physically he continued to berate her, saying: “Even if I killed you, nobody would judge me of...
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“There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" →
Full text!
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“To author is to have the power to originate, to name. Women who seek to produce...”
– Donna Haraway (author of A Cyborg Manifesto), In the Beginning was the Word: The Genesis of Biological Theory
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket (via cuzwehappened)
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Letter from a Sex Worker →
If you “reduce the demand” you will not reduce sex workers real need for the money, you will just make their lives impossible.
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“I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an...”
– Morgan Freeman
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Sex Worker Conference in Las Vegas- Register...
Originally published on Bound, Not Gagged
5th Desiree Alliance Conference – The Audacity of Health: Sex Work, Health, and Politics
July 14-19, 2013 Las Vegas, NV
Registration is Now Open for the 5th Desiree Alliance Conference
Early Registration Deadline: January 15, 2013
Please read the registration details below to begin the process.
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August 2012
14 posts
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“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to...”
– Sylvia Plath
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Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference →
Don’t miss this event!
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“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject...”
– A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (via sublimeeffervescence)
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“Leave it to men to take something as female as the birth of the entire fucking...”
– Sarah Thyre
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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“When a woman speaks, she exposes her nakedness, but when a man talks, he puts...”
– Elias Khoury, As Though She Were Sleeping (via arnaia)
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“Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it’s...”
– Tahereh Mafi (via expositively)
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“Writing only ever begins badly. And you have to sit and tolerate yourself long...”
– David Rakoff, RIP. (via tellmebirdie)
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July 2012
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Why Are Sex Workers Being Banned From... →
In July, the International AIDS Conference is being held in the United States for the first time in over twenty years, after the successful repeal of the ban on HIV-positive foreign nationals entering the US. However, US immigration law still bars entrance to anyone who has engaged in sex work in the past 10 years — even if they have no criminal convictions or work in a country where it is...
December 2011
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Summit on Sex Work in the South →
My thoughts on last Friday’s Summit in Asheville, NC.
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“If you were given the power to unilaterally redesign the U.S. approach to...”
– It’s time to legalize prostitution - Sex Work - Salon.com
I understand that Ronald Weitzer is being strategic by pitting indoor and outdoor prostitution against each other, but NO. Indoor and outdoor sex work are certainly different and require different approaches, but outdoor sex work won’t be...
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