Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]

undercover punk wrote to ask me if i’d somehow find time to get a Sarah Hoagland article on lesbian separatism back online. It’s buried in the deadness that is the old blog. It’s been hacked because of neglect and I have been too lazy to inspect all the files to find out which they hacked […]

Luca, an organizer with Sex Worker Open University posted a comment to the fundamentalist feminism post I wrote earlier. In it, she pointed to the Sex Worker Open University blog, so I thought I’d promote it to a post, to give it a little more exposure. I wish I weren’t working longer hours, or I’d […]

So, yesterday, I related Agustin’s discussion of her fieldwork with the Progresistas, an organization that advocates for the rights of sex workers, mostly by handing out condoms. They believe that solidarity — among sex workers and between all women — is the method for obtaining women’s rights. As a consequence, they have a tendency to […]

So, why the title of the earlier post, pt 1 of a discussion of Agustin’s Chapter, ‘From Charity to Solidarity,’ from her book, _Sex on the Margins? I entitled that post, “Did you hear the one about a sex club owner and some nuns?”
Agustin draws on her fieldnotes, which she sets of in sans serif […]

I’m going to skip ahead to the chapter I’d mentioned was most interesting in Augustin’ book, _Sex on the Margins_, which comes toward the end of the book. This is partly because I figure I won’t have time to get to the rest of the book before it’s due back from interlibrary loan. But it’s […]

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and want to abolish it.
Agustin calls them moral entrepreneurs, which tickled me because it’s an old term […]

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on Doug Henwood’s radio program, Behind the News.
I […]

reading a member of the feminist fight club, i noticed that she said some shit with which i disagree. buying into the premises of the sex negatives, like obama buys into the premises of republicans with his bipartisan bullshit, she said that she hated the term sex positive b/c, she agreed, it made it sound […]

I found this archived in an email for some reason, so I’m archiving it here:

Porn in the U.S.A., Part I
Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
By Maureen Mullarkey
INTERCOURSE. By Andrea Dworkin. Free Press. 257pp. $19.95.
FEMINISM UNMODIFIED: Discourses on Life and Law. By Catharine A. MacKinnon. Harvard University Press. 315pp. $25.
IS PORNOGRAPHY […]

via amber’s blog i read this. what an asshole:
wasn’t being a team player, but I needed to find the balance of feeling good about myself, making money and taking care of the house. It’s not an easy spot to find, especially since the house encourages you to go ahead and have sex at what […]

Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities
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This article addresses the governmental impulse to name particular commercial-sex practices as ‘prostitution’ and its practitioners as ‘prostitutes.’ Although it is conventional to refer to ‘the world’s oldest profession,’ the term prostitution has never described a clearly defined activity and was constructed by particular social actors […]

hmmm. couldn’t resist. i visited amazon and this book was screaming at me to buy it, buy it, buy it. I can’t wait to read it and can only hope i have time! i finished a couple of books in the last couple of weeks and am currently reading Katherine Newman’s No Same in My […]

have only skimmed this and haven’t posted — or worked out! — because i have been way too busy at work. it’s been a mini-whirlwind of the busyness and the craziness and the overtime working 7:30 to 8 or so.
Yesterday, I got up, got ready and greeted a bare nekkid R getting up from […]

On lbo, they are having a delightful conversation, first about abortion and how, *sob* we all should just feel horrible that women must choose abortion because it’s just terrible terrible terrible to kill all those undead babies. *sob* and now, because Dwayne Monroe has actually been trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone I’ve […]

I forgot to mention that I’d ordered Kamala Kempadoo’s Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights. Picked it up at the library yesterday. Our library is the suckage, I’m tellin’ ya. You’d think the Limpdickian libraries would be the worst. Not so. I have library books in, ordered through […]

OK. So I finally got Dacia Ray’s Bi-Apple and watched it last night. Josh did a great job and I’d already remarked on him to R saying something like, “Woah, that dewd is always ready and rarin’ to go.”
Anyway, I got a free copy of a Candida Royalle film with my order. So, I think […]

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]

2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]

2006-09-26 01:36:51
and blowing my mind. I’m reading the part about Judith Butler again because it just blew my mind. I’m just finding it fascinating that the person who gives Halley to most unexpected resistance is Butler! I woulda thunk that, if anyone could dig “Taking a Break from Feminism,” then it’d be Butler and what […]

2006-09-24 14:44:51
I’ve mentioned several times that one of the most persistent divisions among feminists was the question, “who is woman?” How do we define what a woman is? Whatever a woman is, then this woman must be our subject, the one for whom we advance our politics. If woman is fundamentally oppressed by rape, then […]

2006-09-24 19:36:06
Have you ever looked at Michael Berube’s blogroll? He ‘classifies’ the blogs like so:

* Those That Belong to the Emperor
* Those Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush
* Those Included in the Present Classification
* Those That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
* Fabulous Ones
It’s a wink at Foucault’s introduction to The Order […]

This is really interesting and makes clear why MacKIinnon should NOT be confused with people who find Ev0l in Teh Cock! However, I think what she does show is how MacKinnon nonetheless draws on their arguments in her legal work in ONCALE. If you don’t know of the case, here’s a little information about it […]

2006-09-17 00:48:47
Janet Halley explains her assertion that there are two MacKinnons, early and late. All underlines and bold are my additions and not in the original text. —————————————————————————-
SEXUAL SUBORDINATION FEMINISM The Structural Male/Female Model. In the book that did more than anything else to provide the theoretic basis for sex harassment law, Sexual Harassment of […]

2006-09-16 21:52:22
KH kindly pointed out that ‘Sexuality Harassment’ is online. The chapter is from a book with Wendy Brown, Left Legalism / Left Critique. In this chapter, Halley argues that, to better represent the interests of heterosexual women as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people we need to abandon the sexual subordination theories […]