Why sex workers aren’t represented in the media
A sampling from my inbox and phone queries today:
From Fox News:
“I am trying to find someone to explain how credit card payments work with escort services. Specifically, how do you make sure the name of the escort service does not show up on a credit card bill. If anyone can explain that I would be […]
WHAT ABOUT KRISTEN? New York Sex Worker Organizations Respond to Spitzer Scandal
[This is a press release put together by a group of sex workers and sex worker advocates, I’m not the sole author]
I’m available for interviews on this subject. Email dacia[at]wakingvixen[dot]com or via phone 718.554.1714
Contacts
Shakti Ziller, Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net 877-776-2004 x 2
Audacia Ray, 718.554.1714
Sarah Bleviss, Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC (SWOP-NYC), swop.nyc@gmail.com
Prostitutes […]
“Have you been a whore?”
That is a question I was asked in the process of being vetted for Live with Dan Abrams, a show on MSNBC that airs tonight - a show I won’t be appearing on.
You’ve probably heard about the Eliot Spitzer trafficking/hiring of a prostitute debacle by now, and it’s not going end with his resignation - […]
Pro, Anti, and WAM anxiety
I think it definitely says something about the state of feminism and my personal relationship to feminism that the speaking engagement I’m getting most stressed about this spring is my workshop at the Women, Action and the Media conference in Boston at the end of this month. I’m doing a 90 minute workshop called “Sex […]
Sex work, media, activism, and privilege
This post is cross-posted over at the Sex in the Public Square forum on Sex Work, Trafficking and Human Rights. Comments are disabled here to encourage you to go over there and check out the conversation.
I’ve got three different pieces of media swirling around in my head, making me think thoughts that maybe aren’t perfectly […]
Sex Work, Trafficking and Human Rights Week-long Online Forum
Ten prominent sex worker advocates, writers, researchers will be publicly discussing the issues of sex work and trafficking from a human rights and harm reduction perspective, February 25 - March 3, on SexInThePublicSquare.org. The week-long online conversation begin on February 25 and will conclude with a summary statement on March 3, International Sex Worker Rights […]
Sex workers speak up: but who publishes it?
A few weeks ago, I learned of blogger Susannah Breslin’s (Reverse Cowgirl) newest blog project, Letters from Johns, which was quickly followed by Letters from Working Girls. Johns and working girls send her their stories about their experiences with the sex industry, and she publishes them anonymously. The writing on the blogs is interesting, well-done, […]
“Boy, sex work is weird”
I just finished reading Best Sex Writing 2008, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel - she has created a blog for it, which includes interviews with some of the writers. You can see my video review of the book on Live Girl Review. Aw hell, I’ve embedded the video at the end of this post to […]
Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
I feel like I’m totally incapable of saying anything profound about the 5th Annual Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Every year, I don’t want to go to the vigil, but I do. I don’t want to go because it reminds me of how far the sex workers rights movement has to go, how […]
Radical Vixen’s Sex Worker Solidarity Series
Radical Vixen, who is also a staff blogger for $pread, has started to do a series of interview posts called “Sex Worker Solidarity.” She interviewed me for the first one, and I’m cross-posting my answers here:
Introduction:
My official third-person whirlwind of a bio is: Audacia Ray is a blogger (WakingVixen.com), video podcast host (LiveGirlReview.com), author (Naked […]
