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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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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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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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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**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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URGENT: the full scale of the calamity that is this ballot initiative is now being revealed to the public. this is an unbelievable, and unfortunately very real, tale of financial greed. the motivation for this initiative is disturbing in ways that far exceed my original assertion that this was purely an action based on a hegemonic hatred of sex workers.
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when i’m having a brutal day, but enough dollars in my pocket, no place can turn my frown upside down like a high end strip club. girls with even more skill than beauty, writhing in front of me? naked? score. something i’ve noticed is that more and more girls are hitting the strip clubs lately. and i think that is
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In 2003, “Beth Brigham” enrolled to study business, marketing and public relations at Simmons College in Boston, MA. Soon after, a documentary film screened in the prerequisite Communications course Media, Messages & Society, which featured nearby Wheelock College American Studies Chair and Professor Gail Dines, caught Brigham’s attention. When she realized Dines was speaking at a memorial for late “radical”
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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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