December 2008
The Blueprint Myth →
lenachen:
Blueprint is basically the juice version of Nutrisystem. For those unfamiliar with weight loss programs, Nutrisystem is a diet program that delivers prepared food to your home. Unlike programs like Weight Watchers, it doesn’t just tell you what to eat; it literally gives you what to eat. By consuming only said food, you’re supposed to lose weight. Blueprint is the same...
Prostitutes have been scapegoated for so long as a...
… that you can kind of see why it’s making me even sadder than usual that the mainstream of the gay rights movement is woefully detached from the sex workers’ rights movement.
"After two years, I finally decided to tackle the... →
Modern life is rubbish. Here’s how to put up your damn shelves. (Mine have actually moved apartments with me by now. Smart, girl.)
“Like any internet-savvy male, I’ve seen a lot of porn. Tons of it. All those...”
– syntheticpubes, on The Porn Myth. I don’t know, I’ve gotten paid to “be fake” in porn, and that’s all it was — theatre. If anything, it showed me how much the aesthetics of sex are up to us, not anybody else. (And this is just a personal thing, but why do...
“The conditions of the Tenderloin itself are a striking testimony to the...”
– This Monster’s Teeth: Tenderloin Webcams and the Growing Threat of Surveillance Culture in San Francisco
“Rob Sanders, Kenton Co. Commonwealth’s Attorney: “That’s why...”
– Craigslist Helps in Prostitution Bust - :: Cincinnati news story :: LOCAL 12 WKRC-TV in Cincinnati (Aren’t you glad, too, that this attorney has no idea where San Francisco is?)
“Class resentment is all the rage.”
– Critic’s Notebook - Scandals to Warm To - NYTimes.com
“Sad trombone for sex-work-is-work again!”
– Out of context hilarity from a fab interview, I Want To Be… A Dominatrix! — yay, Gala Darling.
“I would never want to say anything that would cause that woman any pain,”...”
– Ira Glass Agrees That He Looks Like Rachel Maddow
But I was such a good girl.
In 1989, I was 11 years old and my mother informed me that I was not to listen to Madonna’s new album, LIKE A PRAYER. This was two full years before I was caught masturbating in a closet with another girl (Catholics, we’re so good with the unironic symbolism), and all because our lookout became too engrossed in her game of TETRIS.
When Madonna was dancing in front of burning crosses...
» In which it’s okay that we need to take care of... →
Or, why I’m not feeling guilty anymore.
WatchTarget Women: Jewelry
“That’s right, Dad. Your little girl is a journalist. So now she’ll have to pawn this ring.”
“Clutching red umbrellas and carrying signs that read, “Sex Work Is Real...”
– Sex Workers Criticize Law Enforcement - washingtonpost.com
WatchSadie Lune at last night’s Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers’ vigil in San Francisco, on the steps of the City & County Jail & DA’s office. (More video at Bound, not Gagged.)
WatchBy Your Side, by Clayton Cubitt. “Long portrait of a couple in distress and working it out. A study in micro facial expressions.”
“People appearing on camera for our pleasure are workers in need of protective...”
– Dwayne Monroe, as quoted by Susannah Breslin in “A Meat Grinder Amongst Meat Grinders.” As glad as I am to see a more nuanced discussion of porn, law, and labor, it’s not that surprising that in all this call for regulation, there’s little, if any, attention paid to asking...
“Sex writing is a corner I painted myself into, and I would feel much better...”
– Jessica Cutler. This — the cycle, not the honesty with which she describes it — is why sex writing is mostly dead to me.
WatchInterview: Laxsmi Tripathi, hijra & sex worker rights activist. Laxmi and I met at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 2008 — we were both there collaborating with the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in a pre-conference strategy meeting for sex workers. On the last day of some intense organizing, we hid out in her hotel room and I asked her a few questions.
WatchBBtv: Xeni interviews WITNESS.org digital archivist Grace Lile on video and human rights
Julia Allison Wants To Make "Fuck You Money" →
mariadiaz:
I’ll spare you this video since I can’t take the minute I lost watching it. The point is that Julia says there are no “young female entrepeneurs”, that none exist.
I think she says this because Julia has alienated a ton of people with her non-company and obvious shilling and probably doesn’t really have a good network. If she stopped hawking this cleanse or whatever it is she’s...
“Sociologist Julia O’Connell Davidson of the University of Nottingham in England...”
– Why Do Men Buy Sex?: Scientific American — and, oh, man, where to begin?
1. There’s a big difference between “not having to care about the prostitute as a human being” and not having to care about: her laundry, her family, her car payments, her orgasm, even. This is the...
WatchFashion Flashback 1967: London
