September 2011
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Complaint against Melissa Farley →
It’s about time someone called her out on this shit!
debaucheddiva:
(via @LynnComella & @CharlieGlickman)
I can only hope it sticks.
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The "H" Word →
It would seem that no one enjoys being called a “hooker,” whether you are a sex worker or not.
When looking at the ways in which the media in the United States continues to use the term, it’s not difficult to ascertain why sex workers still have an impossible time being visible and out in this country.
It’s also easy to see how shaming sex workers, or even shaming someone for...
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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of...”
– Coraline, Neil Gaiman
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“They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Ya know? To truly love some silly...”
– Almost Famous
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Sex Workers Manifesto →
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American AIDS groups no longer have to condemn sex... →
For the past eight years, U.S.-based HIV organizations providing services overseas were forced to formally denounce sex work, and if they didn’t, Uncle Sam closed his checkbook to them. On July 2, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Bush-era policy, and many HIV organizations and sex worker advocacy groups praised the decision.
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“She was running late, always running late, a failing of hers, she knew it, but...”
– T.C. Boyle, Talk Talk
(via first-lines)
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“Fear. It’s the oldest tool of power. If you’re distracted by fear of those...”
– Mulder, the X-Files
(via epic-rewatch)
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“She forgot all about them in her enjoyment of the fine music, which she felt...”
– Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
(via distantheartbeats)
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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(via quotewhore)
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“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story...”
– Anne Lamott
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Feminist Fun Facts:
“Pro-sex work” and “anti-raunch culture” are not incompatible ideologies.
(via curlysiren)
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“Letters are just pieces of paper. … Burn them, and what stays in your heart will...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
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“Now we live in an age of distraction, an age dominated by bombardment coming...”
– “The Anatomy of Influence”: Six Questions for Harold Bloom—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
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Police officers rape sex workers - report →
“A new report launched by youths accuses police officers of raping commercial sex workers. The report launched on Tuesday by Kawempe Youth Development Association, a civil society group empowering commercial sex workers to fight for their rights, also says police officers often beat sex workers and take their belongings such as money.”
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a...”
– Carl Rogers
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“Calling prostitution “a dangerous, violent crime,” NOPD Police Chief Ronal...”
– NOPD Declares War on Sex Workers - Louisiana Justice Institute, 9/8/11
Shame on the NOPD.
(via harmreduction)
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“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is...”
– Iris Murdoch
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