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Feminisnt
www.feminisnt.com
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I'm a pornographer, sex worker, atheist, and former "sex-positive feminist" who grew tired of trying to shoehorn my reality into a useless feminist analysis. I blog my observations as a politically-minded smut peddler, ethical slut, and staunch skeptic. I despise people who project their insecurities onto others, or force sex workers into only two roles: helpless victims and evil patriarchy-colluders. If I ever found a nonprofit, it will be called Start Porn Culture and I will go under the alias Gail Vagines. I love spicy food, vegan lip balm, and the word "pollywog".
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Women With A Vision in New Orleans has been attacked by an arsonist - donate now!

Women With A Vision is truly one of the most outstanding sex worker and harm reduction organizations in the US. Theyre not part of the big city sex worker hipsterati, fawning over their own navels an...

2 days ago

Quote: Kerry Howley on the language and politics of human egg sales

"The Web sites I found, trolling through hundreds of Google hits for egg donor were similar, placing heavy emphasis on the motivation of donors. They spoke of fulfillment, of making a difference,...

6 days ago

Quote: Arundhati Roy on corporate philanthropy, imperialism, and "womens issues" NGOs that ...

"...Corporate philanthropy began to replace missionary activity as Capitalisms (and Imperialisms) road opening and systems maintenance patrol. [...] The Privatisation of Everything has also meant...

17 may 12

Its my blog anniversary, and I have presents for YOU!

My favorite things/blogs/slogans/books/jok es have two common traits: they offend and upset all the right people, and they are completely true. In that spirit, I ordered a small batch of stickers to s...

14 may 12

Quote: Farmer Joel Salatin on the problems of government control of food

"The reason I went out on that limb [making anti-drug war comments when speaking at Liberty University] was partly penance for my two great aunts who devoted their lives to the Womens Temperance ...

09 may 12

The most important lesson you will ever learn about activism

Its weird to occasionally hear people tell me Im a great activist, or that Ive written lots of helpful stuff about activism. Its weird because I generally dont identify as an activist at all, I dont ...

07 may 12

Quote: Laura Agustín on the obsession with ascribing exploitation to transactional sex, especially ...

"Beach boys and women sex tourists: every journalists dream topic... Reporters want to know if the boys are really prostitutes and why the girls are paying; they have trouble figuring out who is ...

02 may 12

Mission accomplished: all seven continents

I just got back from two weeks in Australia, which is extra special because it was my final continent. One of my goals before turning 30 was to visit all seven, and Ive done that with almost two year...

26 apr 12

Frequently Addressed Accusation: "Youre a rabid Republican, an Ann Coulter wannabe!"

Im seen as the most conservative US sex workers rights activist, which really says something about the failure of the movement to attractive diversity. I dont even think of myself as conservative at...

06 apr 12

Quote: Dan Savage on offensive jokes

"I cant count the number of times Ive defended figures like Howard Stern and Bill Maher—straight entertainers who 1. fully support gay rights but 2. sometimes tell jokes that sensitivos consider ...

05 apr 12

A spring 2012 wishlist gift thank you

Thank you very much to the awesome people who sent me gifts from my Amazon wishlist: Raikin, Stella Maris, AP, BO, and CL! (Please make sure include your email address in the "gift comments"...

03 apr 12

Financial transparency statement added to SWAAY.org

It being tax season, I realized it would be appropriate to post a financial summary for SWAAY. Heres a copy of whats now on swaay.org/about.html: Are donations to SWAAY tax deductible? Where does th...

02 apr 12

An infographic is worth a thousand words: on hypocrisy

27 mar 12

Everything you need to know about life, youve already learned from 80s movies: Heathers and equality

The other week, I was having an email exchange with a friend about our shared annoyance with "strong" feminists who, if the slightest conflict surfaces, or the smallest perceived act of "...

26 mar 12

Blogging/tweeting sex workers: how to monetize your unpaid writing through wishlist and affiliate s...

Something I often hear from my blog and Twitter readers is that they love my writing, the news links I share, or my perspectives in general, but that theyre not into porn, or their wife wont let them...

22 mar 12

Cam ho comparison: iFriends versus Streamate

Ive been a part-time cam ho since 2005, and in that time, I have been a worker bee for a network called iFriends. iFriends used to be the big dog on the block with web cams, but these days, that has...

14 mar 12

Quote: Marty Klein on the backlash against Rush Limbaugh and other hot "sexism" topics

"...lets stop blaming men (all-male church, mostly-male Congress, male-run Fox News, etc.) for doing all this bad stuff to women. Women vote to put anti-sex politicians in office; a majority of w...

12 mar 12

NPRs On the Media and Sarah Abdurrahman violated Creative Commons licensing, stole from my blog wit...

[Updated after NPR responded by snidely mocking me on their web site and refusing to so much as apologize. If they would prefer to handle this as an internet flame war, Ill give them one Google will...

07 mar 12

Sponsor my travel costs so I can represent sex workers rights at national events

Its no secret that Im an atheist. Debating religion was the first political issue I learned inside and out. When I was 6 or 7 years old in flyover land, understandably unaware that there was any di...

28 feb 12

What does LAs new "Safer Sex In The Adult Film Industry Act" actually say?

Im not a mainstream LA porn performer, so I dont write much about mainstream porn. I tend to avoid writing about topics where I dont have a lot of personal experience, even if I have a lot of second...

22 feb 12

The Art of War... as applied to sex workers rights organizing

One of my readers sent me Sun Tzus classic book The Art of War, and I thought I would quote and comment on certain passages that Id consider relevant to sex workers rights activists. For those unfam...

21 feb 12

A sex workers take on the "what ____ thinks I do" meme

I like this meme, so I made one about my work. Obviously, doesnt apply to all sex workers or all pornographers, so get out there and make your own! If you make a sex work related one, you can email...

15 feb 12

Quote: Shona McCombes on the demonization of "fake" women and "fake" beauty

"The ["fake"] women are loud, hyper-real versions of the femininity to which we are all supposed to aspire, and the disdain with which our culture drenches them is a telling indictment of...

07 feb 12

My favorite cinematic sex worker on the masculine end of the scale: Gigolo Joe

While I still say that Jasmine in Independence Day reigns supreme when it comes to a positive, realistic portrayal of a sex worker in a mainstream movie, I wanted to do some gender balancing and writ...

25 jan 12

Quote: Richard Berkowitz on living it up while being the worst of both worlds

"Browsing through the most gorgeous ties Id ever seen I realized what was bothering me. Growing up I was taught that the worst thing you could be if you were a man was a queer, and the worst thi...

19 jan 12

Recommended watching for the long weekend: favorite political talks from recent nerd events

Im not a hardcore nerd the way some of my wonderful friends are, so what I like with geek events are discussions of social implications of technologies, surveillance, privacy, anonymity, and fighting...

15 jan 12

Quote: Emi Koyama on the simplistic language and thinking employed by anti-trafficking crusaders

"...SCTNow, along with similar anti-trafficking concerns, uses a simplistic language of good and evil in its discussions of trafficking. In this way, its selling of the anti-trafficking movement...

10 jan 12

Highlights from my bizarre FBI file, and how to FOIA your own

At some point last year, I sent off Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to a number of government agencies. Id actually pretty much forgotten about it after getting form letters back from a n...

05 jan 12

Google Seattle protest wrap-up, which way forward?

Its been a busy month, but I wanted to post a photo from last weeks Google protest in Seattle. The protest was just myself and @ishfery, a sex worker Id previously only met on Twitter. (And, ornery...

29 dec 11

Fleshed-out Google campaign page

Ive spent almost the entire last 5 days researching the groups that Google is now funding. Please see the campaign page and read something Ive put a lot of time info! Why are sex workers rights supp...

20 dec 11

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