meet Dana Bialer. you might recognize her name from my bio page, if you actually read that, or from the credits of Dines’ “Pornland,” …if you actually read that. when i first found out Dines had one of her assistants teaching an entry-level course in her department, i wasn’t the least bit surprised. but, after i interviewed with Lydia Lee, i started
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i was blown away to be emailed this incredible blog essay today. i am not alone. apparently many professors are on the lookout for recruits?! around the globe! this is one of the most brilliant things i have ever read. here, where i first connect to her, for obvious reasons: “In my third year of my undergrad I took a
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In addition to re-posting my 3 part series on Gail Dines from back in my prior blogs’ days, I recently got to sit down with the incredibly insightful Lydia Lee, to reflect on Dines, Dines’ latest despicably inaccurate assertions, and the inconveniently-timed controversy now occurring in what might just be Dines’ least favorite building on the planet. Check it out,
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huge thanks to Lydia Lee fka Julie Meadows for her recent, epic, coverage of the “anti-porn-stars” as she calls them (perfect)!!! i the wake of a plethora of life changes, i sort of imagined myself not bothering to finish posting the series. but after reading her critiques… first of Dines’ latest publication, Pornland, then of her friends’ Getting Off (Robert Jensen) and
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i read an amazing piece called “Brain Damage” by D. Amster in volume II Issue IV of $pread magazine. this writer flips the academic feminist mission of women like gail dines (and, formerly, me) to “save” women in the industry, parodying this activity by fictionalizing a team of women whose mission it is to save women from academia. the preface
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so i haven’t written in months, am busy as sin, and Farrah Abraham somehow just inspired me to sit down and write an impromptu essay about plastic surgery after suggesting it was an appropriate Christmas gift and getting a couple harsh comments as response. i figured since i got my first plastic surgery for Christmas/Hanukkah 2010 that i would respond in case anyone actually
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Thanks to anyone who tuned in to my ridiculously brief segment on UnregularRadio! There is SO much that I didn’t get to say – there is just plain so much TO say on this topic – and thanks to Lydia Lee fka Julie Meadows, we now have information on the opinions of the most important people involved: the performers.
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UPDATE: i call in at 11:30 – but why not TUNE IN NOW so you don’t miss all the awesome?? Tune in to UnRegular Radio tomorrow, Thursday Oct 11, at 11am EST (or earlier if you’re up – the show starts at 9am EST). I will be discussing the impending LA County vote on measure B, the initiative to require condoms
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ever since I was sent the article, Hookers For Jesus, in which i was interviewed some time ago, i’ve been unable to think about all the (secular!) resources available to sex workers that were not, and conveniently often are not, included in the important discussion regarding the assistance of sex workers in need. i decided to compile a listing
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on the film that was ALWAYS meant to be seen
why do i care so much about Farrah Abraham‘s “sex tape?” [NSFW LINK] i did reveal some time ago my obsession with teen mom, in an essay specifically inspired by a different atrocious marketing ploy, by the same individual no less, and my obsession with porn/the sex industry/sex workers rights is, i mean… why i have a blog to begin
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