The most important lesson you will ever learn about activism
It's weird to occasionally hear people tell me I'm a great activist, or that I've written lots of helpful stuff about activism. It's weird because I generally don't identify as an activist at all, I...
View ArticleQuote: Arundhati Roy on corporate philanthropy, imperialism, and "women's...
"...Corporate philanthropy began to replace missionary activity as Capitalism's (and Imperialism's) road opening and systems maintenance patrol. [...] The Privatisation of Everything has also meant...
View ArticleWomen With A Vision in New Orleans has been attacked by an arsonist - donate...
Women With A Vision is truly one of the most outstanding sex worker and harm reduction organizations in the US. They're not part of the big city sex worker hipsterati, fawning over their own navels...
View ArticleQuote: Marty Klein on the obsession with labeling everything as "sexual...
"But Sexual Harassment law was never designed to protect women from merely feeling uncomfortable. In a typical workday, men and women alike face many sources of discomfort: atheists face clerks...
View ArticleLet's stop pretending that "objectification" is a thing that exists
Although I'm normally loathe to give my time to college students seeking a sex worker to interview for an assignment, I recently made an exception for a friend of mine. The questions were the standard...
View Article"Familiarity is breeding tolerance": another reminder of why being out is the...
Last week, my state (Washington) became the first in the nation to legalize possession and use of marijuana. Colorado will follow suit next month after a similar measure there won during the November...
View ArticleFrequently Addressed Accusation: "You misrepresent true feminism by focusing...
One of the most common replies I get on Twitter, via email, and when I allowed comments on my blog has been some variant of the No True Scotsman fallacy. In this form of faulty reasoning one's belief...
View ArticleFighting 2257 laws: the individual privacy rights angle
I am pleased to see that a new fight is gearing up against the United States' horrible 2257 regulations, and I want to tell my readers about why "a porn regulation" should matter to them as sex...
View ArticleQuote: Moxie Marlinspike on the necessity of law-breaking to law-changing
"Over the past year, there have been a number of headline-grabbing legal changes in the US, such as the legalization of marijuana in CO and WA, as well as the legalization of same-sex marriage in a...
View ArticleIn it for the money? The smart investment is in an anti-sex worker career
Anti-sex work activists endlessly harp on the specter of the multi-billion dollar sex industry. They never want to talk about how individual sex workers only make fairly modest incomes, and for...
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