Posted in HIV/AIDS, tagged HIV/AIDS, Sex Offender, South Dakota on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
South Dakota Senate Approves Legislation That Would Require People Convicted of Intentionally Spreading HIV To Register as Sex Offenders
Posted in Sex Work, tagged $pread, Blogs, Clients, Letters From Johns, prostitution, Susannah Breslin, Working Girls on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been reading the $pread blog this morning. Last week, there was a post about sex worker projects, which led me to Letters From Working Girls, “an online project that launched on January 14, 2008″ where you can “find real letters from real working girls about their real experiences”.
The project was created by Susannah Breslin, [...]
Posted in Britney Spears, Media, tagged CNN, Mental Health, Music Industry, Paparazzi on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t been discussing it.
However, I just came across this article, and I think it inserts some sanity into the media madness surrounding my beloved.
Posted in Hypocrisy, Politics, Trafficking, tagged Coerced Labor, Human Rights, Iraq, Labor Rights, Sex Work, United States on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
New evidence reveals previously unreported instances of appalling living conditions, abuse and coerced labor in the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Soon after the State Department awarded a $592 million building contract to First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting in July 2005, thousands of low-paid migrant workers recruited from South Asia, the Philippines and [...]
Posted in Activism, Sex Work, tagged Chicago, Conference, Desiree Alliance, Human Rights, PONY, Pulling Back the Sheets, Sex Workers Rights, Social Justice, SWOP on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
SAVE THE DATE: The 2008 Sex Worker Convergence is hitting Chi-Town!
On July 16-20 of 2008, hundreds of sex workers and sex worker activists will converge on Chicago at the Desiree Alliance Conference:
“Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work, and Social Justice”
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across [...]
Posted in Sex Work, Trafficking, bound not gagged, tagged New York, Poverty, prostitution, Sex Workers Project, Slavery, Urban Justice Center on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sex Workers Project (SWP) had a letter published in The San Francisco Chronicle that is a must read!
Don’t Call It Slavery
The link above will take to www.BoundNotGagged.com, where you can read what sex workers, and their allies, have to say about the letter.
A thousand kisses for the SWP!
Posted in Britney Spears, tagged Kevin Federline on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kevin Federline Tell-All Book $10 Million: Britney Spears Multiple Personality Disorder, Federline Tell-All Says
While I’d love to know the dirt, I find this incredibly sad, and hope it’s not true.
Britney: Be the first to buy the rights to that story! It is your story after all, and you’ve got more than enough disposable income.
Apparently, there’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Sex Work, tagged Amanda Brooks, Cops, Escort, Law Enforcement, prostitution, SWOP East on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m surfing blogs while I contemplate a database design problem, and I came upon this post at Amanda Brooks’ The Notebook: A Business Blog for Escorts: Cops Give Tips to Escort Clients.
Fucking ridiculous.
I’m going to keep this in mind while I return to my design problem, but I advise you to read Amanda’s post.
Grrrr. It’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Sex Work, tagged Media, Norma Jean Almodovar, Serial Killer, Vancouver, Violence on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How many more times can we go over this?
When will people, other than those working in the sex industry, get pissed off enough about the deaths of prostitutes to join our tired voices?
Death of Vancouver Sex Worker attributed to serial killer, again.
Also, I find the need to identify the murdered women in this case as [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Multiple Sclerosis, tagged Paul Nicholas, Stem Cell Treatment on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Below is a letter from MS-activist Paul Nicholas, who recently underwent stem cell treatment in Mexico.
This is critically improtant for so many of us with chronic illnesses. Please share the information!
Dear Friends,
I left the U.S. this summer and went to Mexico for Adult Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy.
The treatment was a huge success and ended much [...]
