Sex Worker Rights, Getting It Done

Money, Baby

Getting ready for the monthly Desiree Alliance conference call, which is how we Get Ho Things Done. Sex worker rights’ organizing would come to a grinding halt were it not for Yahoo! Groups and FreeConferenceCall.com, I swear.

More Sunday business: answering the query (from anti-prostitution activist Melissa Farley herself), “who owns Bound, Not Gagged?”, the sex worker rights blog that began by righteous accident in May, when the DC Madam scandal first broke big, and is now populated with something close to twenty different bloggers and a dedicated community of commenters. Just this week, there’s posts on the pros and cons of using a “right to sexual privacy” defense, a la Lawrence v. Texas, against prostitution charges, a deeply personal story about what happens when you forget who your client is, and a playful discussion of, pole or not, is Britney the world’s best paid sex worker? Farley and the anti-prostitution types that rally around her are paying attention to us, which is crazy and crucial, as Farley also has the ear of the Bush Administration and no small amount of their money to fund her work, too. (Really, our money. If you pay your taxes, of course.)

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Published:
10.14.07 / 3pm
Category:
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