If you can talk, you can breathe. – unidentified murderer cop
Not a bad selection of links for the post-holiday weekend, really; the first video was one of several Jae showed me on New Year’s Eve, while the selection of the second was based on a Twitter conversation between several sex workers (I will leave you to guess the subject yourselves). All the links above the first video were provided by Tushy Galore, and those between the videos by Popehat, Grace, Rick Horowitz, Radley Balko, Clarkhat, Elizabeth N. Brown, and Dave Krueger (in that order).
- The crime: loitering. The penalty: death by suffocation.
- Headline of the week. Too bad it was fake.
- Another isolated incident.
- RIP Donna Douglas.
- To protect and serve.
- An inevitable development.
- Why is this reported as bad news?
- Only cops can be trusted with guns.
- Cops murder man for “anti-government views”.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
From the Archives
- Surveillance, bureaucracy, Seattle, lawheads, cops, time travel, dogs, overcriminalization, propaganda & The Thing.
- If prohibitionists really want to “rescue” sex workers, why do they keep trying to stop us from getting other jobs?
- With Friends Like Radio Netherlands, sex workers don’t need enemies.
- New York video helpfully explains that a law doesn’t say what it says.
- Prohibitionist French politician pronounces free speech “dangerous”.
- Members of the mainstream media are slowly beginning to wake up.
- How dare libertarians not privilege gay sex above other non-crimes!
- Prosecutors never hesitate when there’s political coin to be made.
- The Red Umbrella Fund, a grant source governed by sex workers.
- “Rescuers” give arrested sex workers crayons & coloring books.
- Michael Roth shows just how easily false memories are formed.
- It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a creepy rapist doctor.
- Burmese journalists are much freer than their US counterparts.
- Cops trash escort’s home after she reports an abusive stalker.
- Melissa Gira Grant picks the best sex work writing of the year.
- An attempt to partly re-criminalize sex work in New Zealand.
- Take especial note of the un-ironic use of the word “rescue”.
- What a classic horror movie can tell us about human nature.
- Cops & vigilantes use “pedophilia” as an excuse to run wild.
- Prostitution-related charges in Toronto have dropped 90%.
- Another long, horrifying article on the Magdalene laundries.
- Feminists never think of the implications of laws they push.
- Cop lets man die to keep his Pot Noodle from getting cold.
- Previous columns for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
- The highly dishonorable Prime Liar of Japan is at it again.
- An excerpt from Mindy Chateauvert’s Sex Workers Unite.
- Spain accuses 17 people of “trafficking” via black magic.
- This woman takes the term “cougar” much too literally.
- New Jersey works to instill moral panic in schoolkids.
- A retrospective of my columns from December 2010.
- More totalitarian prudery from Everett, Washington.
- More examples of “porn” blocked by the UK’s filters.
- Adults without lives demand a “plus-size” Barbie.
- A rare Irish denunciation of the Swedish Model.
- Miranda Kane on selling comedy vs. selling sex.
- Another Brazilian woman auctions her virginity.
- In which prosecutors literally pimp an escort.
- Politician accuses rape victim of prostitution.
- Another casualty of the War on Whores.
- The Cartoon History of the Modern World.
- Flute of Sand & Crisis and Leviathan.
- Go ahead, please cringe with me.
- Laura Lee at Harlot’s Parlour.
- Marc Antony’s first mistress.
- Previously asked questions.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Andrew Hunter.
