Cats and Stacks
These are a few of my foster kittens, on the day before they got adopted! I hide them in my spare room or spare bathroom when clients come and try to make my apartment somewhat resemble an upscale...
View ArticleInternational Whores’ Day (And Lobby Day!) Link Roundup
What a week it’s been for sex worker organizing! The first sex worker Lobby Day on June 1st was followed by nationwide sex worker action on International Whores’ Day on June 2nd. Post-SESTA, this...
View ArticleQuote of the Week
I have friends that work in the sex industry…One of them is a woman named Daisy Delfina. I was messaging with her and felt like it was worth reading her quote. She said, “Sex work is work. And, like...
View ArticleHow To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group
This post was jointly written by Maxine Holloway and Arabelle Raphael, co-founders of BAPS. On the morning after the Senate passed FOSTA we texted each other about whether we should remove our ads from...
View Article2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers
The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble by Juniper Fitzgerald Is our power born from our stigma? How White Women Fuck Up Reparations by Jay St. James “Reparations don’t...
View Article2018’s Best Writing and Reporting on Sex Work
How August Ames’ Suicide Is Changing the Porn Industry by Tina Horn After the tragic death of August Ames left workers reeling, a sprawling industry realized it needed to do better. Don’t Ask Sex...
View ArticleShadowbans: Secret Policies Depriving Sex Workers of Income and Community
Written collaboratively by Juniper Fitzgerald and Jessie Sage Several months ago, we attended the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, which included the Adult Video Network (AVN awards). The...
View ArticleInternational Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: Reliving the Decade...
By Caty Simon and Josephine Ten years ago, the remains of four sex workers — Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Lynn Overstreet Costello — were found close to Gilgo...
View Article“If U Only Knew How They Were Really Doing Us”: Inside/Outside Communication...
by Alisha Walker and Red Schulte (written by Red, with editing and considerable input from Alisha) Alisha Walker is a 27-year-old former sex working person originally from Akron, Ohio. She was...
View ArticleTits and Sass Stands With Black Lives Matter
UPDATED FROM 2016: Four years later, Tits and Sass and the sex worker community reiterate our alliance with the Black Lives Matter movement and all communities of color protesting the police...
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