May 2012
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Interview: Hawk Kinkaid, founder of HookOnline.org
rentboyblog:
Hawk Kinkaid of HookOnline.org interview via KeepTheLightsOn.com
Hawk Kinkaid is speaking to me between meetings. He is the creator of HookOnline.org, a website devoted to harm reduction and fostering dialogue between male sex workers, and Rent U, a teaching program he created as an off-shoot of Hook. Adam: How did you first get the idea to do Hook Online? Hawk: I started the...
Black Girl Dangerous: Obama Loves Queers! (Except... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
President Obama just “endorsed” gay marriage. And guess what? I barely give a damn.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s okay. It’s fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Saying that gay people who want to get married to each other should be able to do so is basically a…
Are you celebrating Obama’s weak endorsement of marriage equality? You...
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April 2012
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“State lawmakers should approve a bill that would bar the practice of...”
– Nos quieren engatusar con faldas y apellidos - eldiariony.com
El Diario editorial in favor of passing the New York State no condoms as evidence bill (A1008/S323). It’s a HUGE deal to get a daily paper to write an editorial on a bill. Hell to the yeah!
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“Last year, New York City health workers gave out 37.2 million condoms. That...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/nyregion/in-new-york-city-giving-away-and-taking-away-condoms.html?_r=1
Good piece in the New York Times about the condoms as evidence issue, with some quotes by me as well as Sienna Baskin from the Sex Workers Project.
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clusters & constellations: An Open Letter to White... →
latinegrasexologist:
cross posted at my Media Justice column
cross posted at my Media Justice column
I’m writing this letter regarding a particular interaction I recently had with a racially white person in the field. This person is planning a new program and project of which I was invited. I asked what the demographics were for this space, if there are any people of Color, with disabilities,...
Struggling To Be Heard: NCAVP and Allied LGBTQ... →
transfeminism:
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and allied lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) organizations stand in solidarity with Cece McDonald, a young African American transgender woman violently attacked by a group of people in a racist and transphobic hate violence incident in June 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Despite being the survivor of...
Bodies Of Work Magazine: INTERVIEW WITH... →
bodiesofworkmagazine:
Ceyenne: I was running a trans program in Jersey and I loved it. I would do anything for my clients and I did! I believed their fight was my fight and I was fought hard for them. The cooking came about when one Thanksgiving I was going to a trans clients house and they didn’t have anything and they were depressed and what I decided with my boss is I would cook a big...
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Condoms As Evidence … of Police Endangering Public... →
[blog post I wrote for the Ms. blog]
Currently in the state of New York, police and prosecutors use condoms as evidence of prostitution-related offenses, including the murky crime of “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.” Even when they don’t use condoms as evidence to aid them in making arrests and convictions, in the process of doing their stop-and-frisks police...
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WatchYou might have noticed that the Cooking In Heels project is more than 100% funded on Kickstarter. That’s amazing, and it happened faster than we could have dared to imagine!
So why should you, not-yet-backer, pledge to a project that is already, definitely happening?
Pledging the $30 level means that you are pre-ordering the book and helping us figure out how big our print run should be....
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WatchSince February 2011 I have been collaborating with Ceyenne Doroshow, a black transgender woman from Brooklyn who while she was incarcerated on a prostitution conviction a few years ago, got inspired to write a memoir cookbook. We’ve made significant progress on the book: we have more than 50 recipes, plus an oral history about her life, and now we’re ready to start producing the book...
March 2012
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Why the Sex Positive Movement is Bad for Sex...
This essay originally appeared in the 2012 Momentum conference anthology ebook. I know this is a bit long for Tumblr, but this is the full text of the article, and I wanted to make it available online for people who aren’t at the conference for my presentation of the same title and/or want to mull it over in text format.
If the pursuit of pleasure is good, how can it be bad for sex...
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State of the Sexual Union: Momentum Conference...
I’ve been active in the sex positive and sex worker rights communities for a decade now. Spaces like this one are where I found my voice and began to stake my claim as a sex positive feminist. But things have changed a lot for me in the past several years, and I no longer consider myself a sex positive feminist.
To be clear, it’s not that I think there’s no need for feminist...
The Top 5 Facts About [Cis] Women in Our Criminal... →
Ugly stuff, but doesn’t even touch on the experiences of transgender women in the prison industrial complex.
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New York State Rape Shield Law
Thought I’d blog the NY state rape shield law and its exceptions, since my last post about the condom bill has gotten people steamed up about that aspect of the fucked up laws in New York.
I would also like to take this opportunity to state that this is why I don’t think blanket “decriminalization” actually works in a practical application. I definitely oppose...
February 2012
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“When she worked the streets, Yvette Gonzales said, she frequently saw other...”
– Albany Bill Would Bar Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution - NYTimes.com
Good article about no condoms as evidence legislation.
Two things, though (always! always with the critique):
There’s no mention of how the collection of condoms as evidence of prostitution is an act of profiling people...
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“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
CPR's Week of Action starts February 26: Stepping... →
Communities United for Police Reform will be launching our campaign with events around New York City, taking our message to City Hall, and to the communities most intensely targeted by these profoundly unfair policing practices.
All listed events are free, some have pre-registration or other specific requirements. For general information about the week: justice@changethenypd.org ...
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“As a part of supporting Aboriginal People in sex work - remote and rural...”
– Indigenous People In The Sex Trade: Our Lives, Our Bodies, Our Realities (statement)
Required reading.
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Things I Once Valued But Now Think Are Massively...
I haven’t blogged step-by-step about all the things that have changed in my brain over the last couple of years with regards to the work and activism I’ve been involved with for the last decade. But things have shifted a lot for me, and hopefully also in how I do my work (forget about intentions, its all about actions). Lists are hip on the internets these days, right? So here’s...
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“Using decoys armed with remote audio systems and aided by “arrest teams” and...”
– As Other Crimes Recede, Police Crack Down on Street Prostitution - NYTimes.com
1. I didn’t copy it here because I don’t want to keep the language in circulation, but the lede of this article is horribly transmisogynistic and refers to “men dressed as women” and also creates...
“I was told multiple times by editors at another women’s mag to feed a source a...”
– Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags | Tooth and Claw
I am “glad” (I guess?) to see that this happens regularly on stories that are not about the sex industry or other controversial issues in which interviewees have little social cache. Oy.
I’m...
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Sex workers: deadline for submitting Intl AIDS Con...
Do you want to present at 2012 International AIDS Conference in DC this July? Would you like to co-present with other sex workers? Do you want to present but do not want to do an entire workshop? Are you interested in on criminalization and HIV, sex work and trafficking, HIV medical model, prevention treatment and care services for sex workers, sex worker research or something else, reach out to...
January 2012
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“Workshops in 2012
In the winter and spring of 2012 we are collaborating...”
– Red Umbrella Project Workshops
Getting close to having workshop dates sorted out for Red Umbrella Project legislative advocacy trainings! Exciting stuff.
“Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas...”
– The Soft Side of Imperialism » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
LAURA AGUSTÍN BRINGS IT.
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WatchToday there is a hearing in DC about the possibility of implementation of a city-wide Prostitution Free Zone. Follow @amyloudermilk and @djbent for live tweets.
The film above was produced by my friend PJ Starr, in collaboration with sex workers in DC.
Here’s some more background info:
From DCist post in December:
Under current D.C. law, prostitution is illegal. Simple enough, right?...
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SWOP NYC member doing study on sex workers in...
I don’t usually post about calls for participation in research studies on the sex industry, because I think most academic studies serve the researcher and do nothing for the population being studied. Plus, students tend to look at the same dumb questions over and over, and frankly, I have better things to do than provide 101s for other people’s gain.
That said, here’s a research...