August 2011
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Annie Sprinkle's PhD Dissertation: Educating Sex... →
In most industries today, workers and their employers take for granted that they will continue to learn more about their career fields. They expect to hone their skills, practice new approaches, and learn about the latest technologies and research advances. However, it is not readily apparent that sex workers have an awareness of continuing education being available for their types of work.
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Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women... →
Please share this with your networks, especially female bloggers. This behavior cannot be tolerated. It reminds me how critical our current personal support networks are, but also emphasizes the need to work on expanding our existing networks. Thanks to the My Name Is Me campaign (http://my.nameis.me/) for bringing the issue of online privacy to the forefront of recent discussions.
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You know what this mess tells me? That if you report a rape, you have to be...
– DSK Rape Case Takeaway Number Five: You Have to Be the Perfect Victim | Akiba Solomon | COLORLINES (via cultureofresistance)
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I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m...
– The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
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The two hemispheres of my mind were in sharpest contrast. On one side a...
– C.S. Lewis
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You have so many men, and women, making assumptions based on your movies about...
– James Deen
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
– Charles Bukowski
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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So I stand in the sun and I breathe with my lungs, trying to spare me the weight...
– Bright Eyes, “A Perfect Sonnet”
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost...
– Chuck Palahnuik
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Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a...
– Sylvia Plath
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does...
– Anna Quindlen
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The world is going to change in any case, I would argue, and our knowledge will...
– Is Anthropology Alive? Social Responsibility in Social Anthropology, Gerald D. Berreman (via misspepita)
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that...
– Virginia Woolf
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No recovery is full. At some point though, a wound will become a scar and then...
– Andrew McMahon (via comeon-sweetcatastrophe)
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Sometimes while writing a novel, you just need to get your hands dirty. Turn off...
– Elle LaMarca
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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be...
– Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me
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I actually had to fight really hard for people to take ‘stripper’ off my byline...
– Ruth Fowler, Being A Fake Sex Worker Surprisingly Not Great For Young Woman’s Writing Career
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