February 2012
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November 2011
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Peculiar Paraphernalia (a peek into the contents...
In every industry, there are distinct tools-of-the-trade: A doctor has his stethoscope and white coat. A carpenter has his hammers, nails, tape measure and the like. A convenience store clerk has his keys, time card, and the customary shotgun under the counter, of course. Well have you ever wondered what’s hidden beneath the typical? What the doctor has in the pockets of that white coat, or...
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Stripper Wages
i work at the lamp lighter in st paul. aparently its the law and its going to be put in place all across the country. It pretty much sucks… they raised our shift fees $8 an hour to cover the $7.25 that they have to pay us, and then the government takes taxes out. So basically we lose somewhere in the neighborhood on $9 for every 8 hour shift. Not that it makes a huge difference, but it...
I'm a stripper who needs to follow more strippers....
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October 2011
3 posts
WHY ARE SEX WORKERS AND THEIR ALLIES OCCUPYING... →
hoaxzine:
By: Melissa Sontag Broudo and Penelope Saunders October 27, 2011
In the last four weeks, many have been wondering what has driven people to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and bring attention to the economic situation that has developed in our country. Critics have argued that so many issues are being discussed and that so many disparate groups have joined forces, that the occupation...
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What Does The Sex Industry Look Like? |... →
workingsex:
This link contains a series of photographs of places where sex workers work. It shows that sex workers’ environments are often different from the images we’ve been fed by the media.
September 2011
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Watchmelissa:
“Instead of prostitutes they were called goddesses.” (via ABC News)
August 2011
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strippertweets asked: Would you support proposals to require all sex workers to inform their families of their profession?
Stop motion graffiti. →
astronautalis:
my friends make awesome shit. check out more of their work at BrokenCrow.com
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“The United States has an unusual military doctrine, it’s one of the reasons why...”
– Noam Chomsky responding to the question, “what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?” a talk entitled “Sovereignty and World Order” at Kansas State University, September 20, 1999. (via intoxicatedspirit)
July 2011
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Stripper Army #1 →
Our first zine is finally available!!!! You’re welcome: http://issuu.com/stripperarmy/docs/slutmagic
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Write For the Stripper Army
We want to write a Manifesta by strippers everywhere who impress us with their fearless occupations of marginalized spaces, subversive lifestyles, radical relationships, and anti authoritarian ways. A guide for those in the club who have felt trapped in survival mode, overburdened, and underrepresented for too long. We want this to be a workbook of mental emanicpation, to flesh out the tiny jump...
Mother Jones: Eleven charts that explain... →
“Hipsters are a driving force behind gentrification, driving out low income...”
– s.e. smith, Hipster Racism (via darkjez)
you mean there are people who still haven’t figured out that they’re just budding yuppies in disguise?
(via ayiman)
An amazing article. Read it.
(via mycultureisnotatrend)
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Glitter Bombs
As a queer sex worker, the spreading of my glitter has been an act of personal and political emancipation, and a celebration of my own strangeness. To see the way glitter has been utilized in disruptive political protest recently, pushing beyond petty glamdalism, and individual delight makes me really proud.
As a baby stripper I covered myself in glitter. I couldn’t get enough on myself. ...
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Struggling To Be Heard: I think this obsession... →
cydne-the-trekupine:
It’s a cis man thing, I think. Trying to boldly go where no man has gone before and staking your claim, marking your territory. “Yes, you might have been living here but I’m white and I have a flag so this is mine…
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“We need to move the self-care conversation into community care. We need to move...”
– Excerpt from Communities of Care, Organizations for Liberation by Yashna Maya Padamsee.
I like a lot of things about this quote, I definitely feel like taking care of each other is something that’s really undervalued. I still think that self-care and spending time alone is really important,...
“If men could have babies, abortions would come in soda machines.”
– firstdesire (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
“I’m not some magical dirty-suburbanite, some innocent little school girl who...”
– Ashlynn Bast. (via avaadore)
June 2011
25 posts
Black Women for Wellness Power Shift - Call for... →
qbg:
Power Shift: Black Women for Wellness’ Annual Conference. A call for Abstracts! Each year Black Women…
WatchSupport the Stella house, pay attention & do everything you can NOT to support the global trafficking of people. It is a criminal system fuel by demand much like the drug trade, we allow these atrocities to occur by ignoring this reality, or worse by participating and purchasing the time of a stolen woman or child. Kidnapping, torturing, and enslaving vulnerable people is worse than...
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“I’ve always understood the word “slut” to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own...”
– Alice Walker
“FEMINISM PRACTICES WHAT ANARCHISM PREACHES”
– lynne farrow
i am a person!: Indigenous Peoples In the Sex... →
chelseaelsea:
We as Indigenous peoples who have current and/or former life experience in the sex trade and sex industries met on unceeded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver on Monday April 11th 2011. In a talking circle organized by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network we wish to share the following points…