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Wakeup Call Radio December 14th @ 8 am
December 13, 2006
On Thursday, December 14, 2006 I’ll be on Wakeup Call Radio on WBAI 99.5 in NYC with fellow $pread executive editor Eliyanna Kaiser, talking about the 4th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers at 8 a.m. If you’re in the NYC area you can catch us live on the radio at that time, and you can get it streaming live in several different formats from the WBAI website. Failing both of those, check back later in the day at the first link I put up - they post each hour of the show as MP3s. I’ll be on the 8 o’clock hour. update I’m told that we’ll be going on at 8.25
Geez, its been a while since Eliyanna and I have been on the radio together - which is a pity, because we’re a pretty fierce team. I think maybe the last time was also a WBAI show, but the host was trying to lure us into saying that religion is solely to blame for the evils of the world and that sex workers would be better off if religion didn’t exist. I think maybe we swore at him (whoops) and danced brilliant theoretical circles around his tiny brain.
This won’t be like that, we’ll be rocking the social justice radio, and it’ll be worth listening to, I promise.
Update 12/14 You can listen or download an MP3 here. We had a perfectly lovely time - if talking about the rash of sex worker murders lately can be considered lovely. Five sex worker’s bodies have turned up near Atlantic City, NJ. A customer also shot a stripper and then himself in a champagne room in a strip club in Philadelphia, he died but she is in stable condition. And last but not least, a story that I feel has been massively under-reported: a German truck driver who has so far confessed to the murders of five prostitutes and may be linked to many many more all across Europe over a thirty year timespan. He allegedly strangles the women and then takes polaroids of their naked bodies and scrawls insults on the pictures. He is 47 now; at the age of 15 he was jailed for the murder of a prostitute.
Grisly stuff.
Posted by Dacia at December 13, 2006 02:50 AM
Comments
I sat down in bed last night and picked up my copy of Bitch, finally having some time for myself, and who did I find in the pages? YOU! Your interview about $pread magazine was great. I really enjoyed the article. I could not believe it was your name in print after all this time reading you online. How awesome!
Posted by: Dylan at December 13, 2006 10:52 AM
Dacia writes:
“I think maybe the last time was also a WBAI show, but the host was trying to lure us into saying that religion is solely to blame for the evils of the world and that sex workers would be better off if religion didn’t exist. I think maybe we swore at him (whoops) and danced brilliant theoretical circles around his tiny brain.”
You’re sounding awfully smug here, Dacia. Do you really think that, on the whole, organized religion has been good for women in general and sex workers in particular? If so, let me know what you’re smoking — I’d like to try it.
Posted by: Tom Moran at December 14, 2006 09:30 AM
No, I don’t think religion has been great for women and sex workers - but this guy was suggesting that religion is the sole problematic element and that everything would be better without it. He was also very surprised by our suggestion that sex workers themselves are often religious. Sorry I didn’t elaborate on this and came off as “smug,” it wasn’t really the main point of the post.
Posted by: Dacia at December 14, 2006 06:28 PM
Is it just me or are the links to listen to the 8 o’clock hour on the WBAI website not working… I was looking forward to hearing the spot !
Posted by: Brian at December 14, 2006 10:23 PM
It’s not just you - I put an email in to them to see if I can get an MP3 to post here.
Posted by: Dacia at December 15, 2006 10:25 PM
