Tag Archives: trafficking
In Defense of Nick Kristof
Tweet Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest member [...]
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If You Can’t Accept Facts, You Can’t Be An Ally
Tweet Photo courtesy AtlanticWire. The following piece by Charlotte Shane originally appeared on the Tits and Sass blog and is republished here with the permission of the author. Charlotte, also known at Nightmare Brunette, has been working in the sex industry for seven years and writing about it for just as long. More of her [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Girls Like Us
TweetThere is a long, beautiful tradition of women writing about their lives as an act of personal liberation and political transformation. I remember slipping Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings off of my grandmother’s shelf as a young teenager and swallowing whole the story of Maya and her rediscovered voice. Bastard Out [...]
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5 Things You Need to Know About The Craigslist Adult Services Censor
TweetThis weekend, Craigslist censored the Adult Services section of their site. The move comes after immense and growing public pressure from a number of critics and opponents, including some law enforcement officials, anti-trafficking groups, and most notably (and perhaps threateningly) Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. It also comes in the wake of the highly [...]
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Quick hit: By conflating sex work with trafficking, CA’s newly passed Prop 35 does more harm than good