Tag Archives: Sex Work
Louisiana ends sex offender registration for sex workers
Tweet Women With A Vision Executive Director Deon Haywood. Image via The Louisiana Justice Institute. A law that branded many sex workers in Louisiana as sex offenders has finally been changed. From The Louisiana Justice Institute: Governor Jindall’s office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine [...]
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People in the sex trade respond to GEMS media storm
TweetAn INCITE! affiliate and collective of radical women of color, queer people of color, and Indigenous people who identify as people in the sex trades has written a compelling response to Rinku Sen’s ColorLines article “The Complexities of Sex Trafficking, and Some Simple Solutions.” I see their piece as addressing the larger media storm around [...]
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Research behind Craigslist Adult Services shutdown debunked [Updated]
Tweet Yesterday, the Village Voice City Pages published an article debunking the Women’s Funding Network (WFN) sex trafficking study that played such a pivotal role in the shutdown of Craigslist’s Adult Services section last fall and was cited by some of the biggest newspapers in the country. The article exposed the WFN study as bogus [...]
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Case contesting “crime against nature” law rocks my world
TweetA lawsuit has been brought against the state of Louisiana for its nonsensical and discriminatory use of an antiquated “crime against nature” statute to arrest and prosecute sex workers. And it is kind of rocking my world. According to a recent press release, Women With a Vision (WWAV) has brought its campaign for repeal of [...]
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