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By Jamie James • 11 years ago

Sex work: Part II (It’s political)

A SYTYCB Entry

It’s been quite some time since I wrote about my personal relationship with sex work on my personal blog. Our relationship went on for eight years. But a couple of years ago, after I survived an exceptionally dangerous situation I promised myself I would never put myself in, I decided to just be friends with sex work and stop bringing it back into my life and my bedroom. I still believe that the rights of sex workers need to be dramatically improved, but I’m not the right kind of person to engage in it. My motivations for engaging in sex work were, quite simply and without exaggerating, the most dangerous. This journal entry concerns how some of those experiences gave me insight into what dangers sex workers face and how those problems need to be addressed.

By Jamie James • 11 years ago

How to thoughtlessly consume whiteness

A SYTYCB entry

Is your complexion fair or pale? Do you check the box that says “Caucasian” next to race when you fill out your demographics? Do you, like the vast majority of people who answered yes to both of those questions, just not think any deeper about whiteness? Well here’s a helpful list of tips for you to keep that up!

1. Be Intellectually Dishonest With Yourself

Lack of critical self-reflection is step one in any successful attempt at brain-washing – it closes your mind so that criticisms from other people can’t get in there and plant ideas. So it only makes sense that you just don’t think about what the word Caucasian means (don’t you dare go look that up now), or ...

A SYTYCB entry

Is your complexion fair or pale? Do you check the box that says “Caucasian” next to race when you fill out your demographics? Do you, like the vast majority of people who answered yes ...