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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Feb 15, 2013
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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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Jan 31, 2013
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i got quite the surprise email yesterday! my buddy AJ, from the days of WTMC, found me within a few weeks of re-launching my site, and said s/he found the article in Cosmo Australia that i was interviewed for back when i was a member of SWOP-USA, regarding options for sex workers who want to get out of the industry. i
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May 02, 2012
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many of you have requested my Gail Dines series return; so, I will be working on republishing those. in the mean time, check out the three-part article about Dines by Ms. Blog. I got the most awkward and hilarious line of my interview included in part two! If you don’t know who Dines is yet, this should paint you quite
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Apr 23, 2012
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**please note that this article contains graphic literary depictions of sexual violence and may be disturbing to some readers.** though my goal is to keep this blog from becoming a diary, i’ve decided to start our New Year off on an absolutely disturbing note, by republishing an article i wrote after getting assaulted while working as what i call a
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Jan 01, 2012
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on the hashtag #tellafeministthankyou
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
Read more…
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