July 2011
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of...”
– —Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us....”
– Interview with Donna Haraway
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female cyborg →
“Production of the female cyborgs goes beyond a reflection of their creator. They embody the visibility of hybrid identities and the organic symbiosis of human and machine. Female cyborgs contest and retaliate against patriarchal values and the colonial mentality of fixed margins.
In ...
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“When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“The weather today is an increasing trend toward denial.”
– Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
(via chuckpalahniukquotes)
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“The woman of the future, who is really being born today, will be a woman...”
– Anais Nin
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“I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees,...”
– Montgomery Clift
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“Decriminalization puts the power back in the hands of the sex worker so we can...”
– The Case for Decriminalizing Prostitution | The Mark
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“A people unaware of its myths is likely to continue living by them, though the...”
– Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence
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EpicStep › SWAAY's Sex Work Definition Billboard →
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for,...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby...”
– Quote of the Week | Tits and Sass
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“She’s not wearing make-up so her face just looks like skin”
– Chuck Palahnuik
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“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is,...”
– Michel Foucault
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Ashton Kutcher’s crusade against sex ads rooted in... →
“Kutcher and the anti-trafficking advocates of his generation are following a political script with its roots in the Prohibition era — one shown to be nearly as effective at ending abuse in the sex trade as the temperance movement was at ending the abuse of alcohol. Nonetheless, it is gaining credibility in Congress, and has already resulted in the closure of the online...
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Trafficked Identities Exhibition →
” More often than not, anti-trafficking campaigns use imagery that glamourises victimisation, in the process leaving unchallenged the structural barriers to the long-term effectiveness of these very campaigns, such as racial discrimination and restrictive migration policies. Moreover, the fetishism of victims in anti-trafficking campaigns may often be seen in their focus on young female...
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Only playing stupid about sex trafficking? Pull... →
Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and Sex
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Sexonomics: When Celebrities Attack →
The problem of bogus information is this - campaigns such as Kutcher’s conflate all sex work with child sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking with all trafficking. It not only encourages legislation that harms consenting adults, but also obscures the real victims because it uses vastly inflated numbers for one kind of trafficking, and pretty much ignores everything else. Actual...
“I would pay real money for a mute button that only silenced wealthy men.”
– (via sexgenderbody)
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If You Can’t Accept Facts, You Can’t Be An Ally →
A lot of sex workers and sex worker activists had trouble enjoying their July 4th weekend thanks to Ashton Kutcher, who has been waging war against The Village Voice for airing its concerns about his anti-trafficking efforts and misinformation campaign. On almost every non-sex worker helmed website that covered this story, comments consisted of the claims that 1) misinformation is...
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Hype, Hustle, Harm: Why Ashton Kutcher, Demi... →
Kutcher, Moore, and the organizations the DNA Foundation supports don’t give us ways to confront systemic poverty and racism, lack of access to education, or strict immigration policies and community policing practices that make people reluctant to engage with the systems that might support them. Instead, their campaigns focus hype and hustle on one target — the market for commercial sex....
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“Real men don’t buy/rent/sell girls. Real men also don’t think that merely making...”
– After Hours | Amanda Brooks’ personal blog — escort, author, advocate (via workingsex)
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When Arrogance Meets Activism: Ashton Kutcher and... →
To the people who claim that the voluntary sexworkers who enjoy it are exceptional cases, my response is: how do you know? There isn’t any research at all that shows how many consensual sexworkers there are, but we do have their stories and we need to hear them instead of pretending they don’t exist. Further, the numbers that we have for how many people are forced into sexual slavery are...
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“Your heart is a piñata.”
– Chuck Palahniuk 