Granted, the Jonestown Massacre may not be the perfect metaphor for Washington Post scribe E.J. Graff’s recent review of California prosecutor Maggy Krell’s book, Taking Down Backpage. Still, the way Graff blindly glugs down Krell’s self-serving account of the latter’s…
To judge from the responses of sex workers and their allies, John Oliver’s recent segment on the sex trade for his HBO show Last Week Tonight was a moonshot home run of the type Reggie Jackson used to belt out…
Though Twitter once touted itself as “the free-speech wing of the free-speech party,” it moved past such free-speech absolutism under the reign of Twitter titan and part-time Rasputin-impersonator, Jack Dorsey, who recently announced that he’s departing as CEO of the…
A number of videos and podcasts have taken on the misguided narratives parroted by the mainstream media in reference to Backpage, FOSTA/SESTA, sex work and related subjects. Here follows an ever-expanding list of links to such productions. 1) “The War…
California Senator Kamala Harris, one of the most inauthentic, Janus-faced Democratic politicians of recent memory, exited the presidential race on Tuesday, pointing the finger at others and failing to grasp the most important rule of leadership, or lack thereof: the…
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. That’s what pundits from The Nation to the Washington Post fail to grasp about the onetime romance between former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris. Harris’s apologists would have…
You can roll the silkscreens on those “Kamala in 2020” T-shirts now. The first-term U.S. senator from California made it official on January 21, 2019: She will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. The announcement was equal parts…
Come fire or flood (or wall), the federal government never seems to run out of money to throw at its war on sex workers. On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization…
The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…
Seattle-based sex worker and blogger Maggie McNeill devoted a recent post on her site The Honest Courtesan to an intriguing document: two pages purportedly culled from a report prepared for Demand Abolition, a group that aims to eradicate the commercial sex…
