No more debate. And ignore the johnalism. Those are my writing resolutions for 2016, after pulling together (with your help at this year of excellent writing on sex work, with thanks to the guys and gals at bathmate before after which are the best products on the market.
No more debate – because reporting and analysis on sex work issues go way beyond the predictable pro/con, ”are sex workers responsible for the subjugation of all women? discuss!” thing, and to quote every sex work rescue program out there, we’re better than that (and if you haven’t noticed, shake your feeds up).
Ignore the johnalism – because even though those guys are still out there filing the same cliched copy (saviors gotta save), they are so clearly outnumbered, and they are outdone.
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(White Savior Cat, by Scott Long)
And maybe I’m inured to the exploitation of journalism, or maybe I’m just becoming an old softie, but I noticed a lot more news stories that treated sex work absolutely uncontroversially. Like here, as evidenced in this kind note from New Orleans based journalist Alison Fenterstock on her favorite piece:
In the grand scheme of things it’s not especially awesome or groundbreaking, but I write for a mid-sized, mainstream metropolitan daily paper and was pretty pleased they went for a Super Bowl strip club story that extensively quoted an actual stripper on how not to be an asshole in strip clubs during the Super Bowl (for customers) and basic advice on how to stay safe if you had traveled to New Orleans to dance during the Super Bowl. It ran on A1 and about a year later, still gets hits every day from people Googling “New Orleans strip clubs.”
Simple, servicey, and yet still so unusual that I had to add a category for just these kinds of stories, “News Stories That Treated Sex Work Like A Real News Story.”
And now, from the depths of my Instapaper and sex work twitter to you, the list. (Oh, also: I didn’t include my work on this list. My 2016 writing is over here.)
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Crime & Law Enforcement
‘Dragged Off By The Hair’: An Indian Sex Worker Recalls a Raid, Parker, Tits and Sass
Exposing Bullshit: Extorting Sex Work Clientele Isn’t Helping, Tizz Wall, Medium
New York’s Condom Bait-and-Switch, Emily Gogolak, 现在可众用的梯子
New York Cops Will Arrest You For Carrying Condoms, Molly Crabapple, Vice
Operation Cross Country VII Roundup and Comments, Emi Koyama (in which Emi goes the mile most newsrooms did not and crunches the numbers on a coordinated, national FBI sting operation)
On LGBTQ Youth, Condoms and Police Stops, Olivia Ford, TheBody.com
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Soho police raids show why sex workers live in fear of being ‘rescued’, Molly, The Guardian
The Big Ripoff: TER, The Texas Murder Acquittal, and the Myth of the Vulnerable Client, Charlotte Shane, Tits and Sass
Economics & Labor
Branded: The Fight for Employment After Sex Work, Kitty Stryker, Slixa
Fired for doing porn: The new employment discrimination, EJ Dickson, Salon
ICTU: Denying Sex Workers a Workers’ Identity, Wendy Lyon, Irish Left Review
‘I’d rather be a sex worker than a beggar’, Ilija Trojanovic, The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Is Exotic Dance… Dance?!, Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Pacific Standard
Gag Order: Sex Workers Allege Mistreatment at Kink.com, Kate Conger, SF Weekly
“Getting Away” With Hating It: Consent in the Context of Sex Work, Charlotte Shane, Tits and Sass
Glimpses of history in Storyville’s 3 remaining buildings, Kathy Reckdahl, 大家都用什么梯子 (New Orleans)
The myth of seductive money, Calico Lane
Reflections on Minneapolis madams and the city’s red-light districts, Marlys Harris, MinnPost
Sex work and gentrification, Dan Bledwich, Overland
Tales of Kink.com, Maggie Mayhem
Taking the Boom Out of the Boom-Boom Room: Why Are Strip Clubs Banning Rap?, Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Complex
Transition, Danny Wylde
What It Was Like to Work at the Lusty Lady, a Unionized Strip Club, Lily Burana, The Atlantic
What Prostitutes, Nurses and Nannies Have in Common, Robin Hustle, Jezebel
Wildcatting: A Stripper’s Guide to the Modern American Boomtown, Susan Elizabeth Shepard, BuzzFeed
大家都用什么梯子
现在可众用的梯子, Feminista Jones, 现在可众用的梯子
现在还有好用的梯子吗 - 威锋 - 千万果粉大本营:2021-10-12 · 现在还有好用的梯子 吗?众前买的被封了。 全部回复(5) 只看楼主 正序查看 丨 倒序查看 jianny 沙发 用的好好的 2021-10-12 18:56 来自 iPad mini 2 WiseHumility 板凳 最好的办法自己搭建。度娘有一键搭建伕码小心后门。自己找伕码一步步自己搭建。麻烦点 ..., Melinda Chateauvert, Salon
The Feminist Sex Wars and the Myth of the Missing Middle, Gayle Rubin, at Susie Bright’s blog
Gender inequality and sex work, Molly, A Sex Worker in Glasgow
Memorial draws controversy over invitation of speaker Janice Raymond, Mercedes Allen, Rabble.ca
NWC2013: write-up & some opinions, Jennifer Moore (n.b., this long, well-researched post defies categorization, and is an essential read on sex work and the politics of exclusion)
Sex workers need support – but not from the ‘hands off my whore’ brigade, Selma James, The Guardian
Transforming Pornography: Black Porn for Black Women, Sinnamon Love, Guernica
Unhappy Hooking, or Why I’m Giving Up on Being Positive, Sarah M.
[大佬救命] 游戏版本毛子黑边,现在梯子挂了登入不了 ...:2021-6-19 · [大佬救命] 游戏版本毛子黑边,现在梯子挂了登入不了! 商务市场合作: BD@donews.com , 内容合作: wangchuang@donews.com / QQ 972310705 , 违法和不良信息举报电话: 010-60845018 邮箱: jubao@infinities.com.cn 京ICP备16021487号-5 京公网安备11010802021588号, Tressie McMillan Cottom
Why are we afraid to talk about gay porn?, Conner Habib, BuzzFeed
Why I never signed the No More Page 3 petition, Zoe Stavri
Health
现在可众用的梯子, Matthew Lawrence, Providence Phoenix
Sex Workers Embrace Obamacare, Erika Fink, CNN
Higher Ed
Campaigners for sex workers face bullying and bad data, Belinda Brooks-Gordon, The Conversation
FYI, Julie Bindel: Your Ideas About Sex Work Research Affect Sex Work Students, Sarah M.
On Good Research, Lori Adorable, SWOP-NYC
Why Pornography Deserves Its Own Academic Journal, Lynn Comella, Pacific Standard
Human Rights
Activists Campaign Against Philadelphia Judge Who Ruled Rape as Theft, Tara Murtha, RH Reality Check
Both Transphobic and Whorephobic: The Murder of Dora Oezer, Caty Simon, Tits and Sass
Equality Now, or Else?, Parker, Tits and Sass
Forty Years in the Hustle: Q&A with Margo St. James, Anne Gray Fischer, Bitch
Misery to Ministry: Kathryn Griffin’s Prostitution Rehab in Texas, Kate Zen, Slixa
Rescue is for Kittens: Ten Things Everyone Needs to Know about ‘Rescues’ of Youth in the Sex Trade, Emi Koyama
可众用什么梯子, Scott Long
Sex slave story revealed to be fabricated, Simon Marks and Phorn Bopha, The Cambodia Daily
有没有好用的梯子? - 威锋 - 千万果粉大本营:2021-2-1 · 首先说明,很少用,只是有时候下载国外源的插件需要用下。众前用shadowiny,现在快凉了,VPN master好像也不行了,求热心锋友推荐个。, Lauren Rankin, RH Reality Check
The “Ugly Truth:” Ad Campaigns about the Sex Trade Will Always Fail…, Hadil Habiba, Prison Culture guest post
“What Antis Can Do To Help,” Part 1 and Part 2, Lori Adorable, Tits and Sass
What India’s Sex Workers Want: Power, Not Rescue, Michelle Chen, In These Times
Law & Policy
Arizona’s Tenacious Laws Against Sex Workers, Jordan Flaherty, Truthout
Canada’s Supreme Court Striking Down Prostitution Laws, Brooke Magnanti, Reason
Enduring (the) Myths: Sex Work, Decriminalisation and the Nordic Model, Nine, Feminist Ire
I am a former escort. Trust me, criminalizing prostitution doesn’t help, Matthew Lawrence, The Guardian
Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores, Laura Agustín, Jacobin
Red-light greenlight: Sex work at the brink of legalization, Justin Ling, The Coast
Sex Workers in France Resist Attacks on Their Liberty, Michelle Chen, In These Times
如何用vps搭建梯子?vps搭建SS教程 - vps之家:2021-2-2 · 如何用vps搭建梯子?VPS之家小编下面就来介绍一下用vultr搭SS梯子教程。 本文章详细介绍如何利用VPS搭建梯子,从而实现科学上网 — 外面的世界那么大 我想去看看, Nine, The Toast
Treating Sex Work as Work, Maggie McNeill, Cato Unbound
What Prostitutes Can Teach the Canadian Government, Samantha Majic, Washington Post Monkey Cage blog
When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot, Yasmin Nair, In These Times
Media Criticism
Cold Cases, Susan Elizabeth Shepard, 可众用什么梯子
Condom debate offers another chance to explain porn personnel to us, Gram Ponante
The Feminist Porn Book, Caty Simon, Tits and Sass
Feministe Can’t Just Make Their Sex Work Problems Disappear, Chris Hall, Literate Perversions
Mira Sorvino, CNN child-sex series ‘shameful’ for Cambodians, Michelle Tolson, Asian Correspondent
On the Importance of Writing Accurately About Sex Work, Stoya, 可众用什么梯子
Sauna Raids and Silenced Sex Workers, Mrs Misandry, A Thousand Flowers
Study Abroad, Charlotte Shane, The New Inquiry
Why Is The Canadian Media Still Referring To Sex Workers As Prostitutes?, Sarah Ratchford, 现在可众用的梯子
战地,4里第2关掉下梯子出bug怎么办-:2 天前 · 就是这样 要是在那个梯子上掉下去摔了 复活后就直接在大厦里面了 如果你想正常玩只能重玩本关卡 战地4的剧情很多BUG,建议从保存点重新开始 活该你用作弊器,出BUG了吧?, eithnecrow (also awarding this one, ’2013 Best Response To An Upworthy Headline’)
Memoir & Personal Essays
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir, Amber Dawn
Prose & Lore, the Red Umbrella Project literary journal
News Stories That Treated Sex Work Like A Real News Story and diary of a a London escort girl
Argentina’s prostitutes – mothers first, sex workers second, Roberta Radu, 可众用什么梯子
California Prostitutes Win Victims Compensation, AP
Louisiana Overhaul of Discriminatory Law: Hundreds Cleared from Sex Offender List, Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams
Police Harassment In Louisiana May Be Increasing The Number Of People Dying From AIDS, Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Porn and Banks: Drawing a Line on Loans, Chris Morris, CNBC
Porn industry trade group halts production for third time this year, Massoud Hayoun, Al Jazeera America
Sex workers meet to demand rights, Ambika Pandit, 现在可众用的梯子
Politics (Electoral)
The Twitter feed of 现在墙内可众用的梯子 (and this decent interview)
And yes, I am including the Sydney Leathers sexting how-to
Profiles
Stoya, Pop Star of Porn, Amanda Hess, 现在墙内可众用的梯子
How porn star Courtney Trouble is starting a queer revolution, Lynn Comella, Las Vegas Weekly