If you’ve ever been engaged by those who promote “sex work” as a neutral form of labour (also see: “it’s just a job like any other,” “women’s bodies exist as resources”), harmless…
Tag: Sex Work
Phillip Michael Peck was a gay boy and my best friend in high school. We met over Whoopie Goldberg in the back of the science room. We hadn’t ever spoken before and…
Controversy swirls around Amnesty International’s celebration of their new policy on prostitution, which calls for the decriminalization of pimps and johns. Pimps, johns, and sexists around the world are celebrating, which is…
I’m going to hazard a guess and say that most people reading this do not believe that men are entitled to access women’s bodies for the purposes of their sexual gratification either…
Dear Amnesty International, As I read the words of your 2004 titled “Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous women in Canada”, I cannot help but find myself…
So Amnesty International voted in favour of adopting a policy that calls for the full decriminalization of the sex trade. Hurray? Once the celebration or despair subsides we are left we a…
Feminists respond to Amnesty International’s statement on the full decriminalization of prostitution
Amnesty International have just voted to protect rights of pimps & johns worldwide. They better be ready for a 30 year fight, because I am. — Rachel Moran (@RachelRMoran) August 11, 2015…
Amnesty International has voted in favour of adopting a policy that supports the “full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work.” That is to say, they will be developing a policy…
When a video of former Labour minister, Lord Sewel, doing lines of coke with “prostitutes” came out, media everywhere responded with both shock and mockery, but for all the wrong reasons. In…
It’s easy to hate on Jezebel, I know. It’s also easy to hate on Feministing and xoJane and, really, any website covering feminist issues, ourselves included. They’re liberals, we’re “whorephobic,” they’re capitalists,…
The lengths to which sex industry apologists will go to in order to push the idea that buying sex is synonymous with sexual liberation and empowerment never ceases to amaze me. While…
I’ve covered the failures of progressive media platform, Ricochet, when it comes to “the woman question,” in the past, but feminist critiques have not dissuaded their male writers from pontificating on violence…
The #FacesofProstitution hashtag sprung up in response to a post republished on an Australian news website/online women’s mag, Mamamia. It’s a site which pushes a lot of talk about being really supportive…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, is scheduled to give the keynote speech at an upcoming conference about resource extraction at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The State of Extraction, set to take place…