The Vernacular of Vixens
Last week The Daily Dot ran a story about a Twitter campaign petitioning the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook to rename prostitutes as sex workers in their 2015 annual update. The AP Stylebook, for...
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A Whore Beige Courtesy Announcement
Attention #whorenation! I have some sage advise I want to impart. Since the filing of the constitutional legal challenge, I’ve been getting all kinds of requests. Media types, researchers, people who...
View ArticleA Whore’s Eye’s View
Dear Ms. Shetty & Mr. Hawkins; On behalf of the Erotic Service Providers Union (ESPU) I have been following Amnesty International’s evolution on my industry for over a decade. I used to contribute...
View ArticleAmnesty International Makes The Right Policy Call
Amnesty International Policy Decriminalize Sex Workers Check Out Amnesty Internationals New Policy Here! And check out the debate on Aljazeera English with Maxine Doogan, Catherine Murphy, Policy...
View ArticleDog Whistling for Whores “Changing Dominant Narratives on Sex Work”?
Dog Whistling for Whores “Changing Dominant Narratives on Sex Work”? After 17 years of watching local, state, national and international laws passed recriminalizing us as sex traffickers, reclassifying...
View ArticleBye Bye Eros Guide
I remember when I first met Sachi. She came to one of our meetings of the Cyprian Guild. The Cyprian Guild was a monthly meeting of providers in San Francisco that met from 1996 to about 1998. Sachi...
View ArticleHappy International Whore’s Day 2018
I tried to educate Cat Brooks about the pitfalls of using the language as well as the approach created by modern day white supremacists when discussing prostitution and forced labor back in 2016 when I...
View ArticleWho’s Really Behind the Atlanta Massage Parlor Murders? The American Taliban
Who’s Really Behind the Atlanta Massage Parlor Murders? The American Taliban Aaron Long may have pulled the trigger on Tuesday night’s massage parlor killing spree, but in many ways, he was just a...
View ArticleOde To Margo St. James
I first spoke with Margo St. James in 2008 following the failure of Proposition K – a San Francisco city wide ballot measure to decriminalize prostitution and defund diversion programs. I was the...
View ArticleIn Loving memory – Leahallurah
In Loving memory – Leahallurah We are saddened to announce that Leahallurah, 35, passed away unexpectedly in late September 2021 in the presence of her mother. She was from Santa Barbara, CA, led a...
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