Tag: Sex Work

Quickies: Same-Sex Marriage in Mexico, Decriminalization of HIV, Grindr at CPAC

By Jac

In Quickies

On March 2, 2015

The Fight for Marriage Equality in Mexico – “Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future.” Homeless LGBTQ Youth Turning to Survival Sex […]

The Queerview Mirror: Sex Workers Unite

By Ser

On May 30, 2014

I picked up Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk by Melinda Chateauvert because it made me uncomfortable and because I didn’t know anything about a sex worker’s

Quickies

Quickies 03/28/2014

By Yessenia

On March 29, 2014

Why Affirming Bisexuality is a Public Health Concern. Most LGB people identify as bisexual, yet our visibility is dwarfed by LG: Bisexuality: It’s Really not that Complicated. Homeopathic remedi

Deconstructing The Anti-Sexwork Video From Upworthy – An Atheist Perspective

By laurelai

In Atheism , Discrimination , Politics / Activism , Religion , Sex Work , Skepticism , Social Media

On September 2, 2013

Recently a video found here has been making its way around the internet, this video depicts sex workers in the red light district doing a dance number, and at the end it shows an anti trafficking message stating how many women are “promised careers as dancers only to wind up here”. Lets start with the […]

Feminism , Law , Politics / Activism , Sex Work

Fallen Women

By cheyenne

On February 22, 2013

That’s what we used to be called in another era of sex work prohibition, “rehabilitation”, during another national scare and shame. The Industrial Era brought with it a new kind of sex worker, b