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love this blog i stumbled over: Pervocracy

this was also originally published a few years ago, 2007-01-01 00:51:11
reposted for archival purposes. It’s actually a repost of something written for the Bad Subjects zine by an anonymous writer. Don’t know if it’s still online but the link to the old issue is included below.
Dedicated to RenEv, you spitfire, you. heh.
Actually, the title is, […]

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 […]

god. i read amber’s blog, only to learn about some ridiculous blow out in sexworker bloglandia. i really don’t feel like reading everything so as to have an informed position, let alone so I can distill it all for you, but you can learn more by blogging on “alexa di carlo,” fauxho, etc. etc.
and i’m […]

oiy. I’ve mentioned that my feminist book club feels oppressively heteronormative sometimes. often. ok. yeah: often they are heteronormative! i’m not at the punching walls state i was with the first team i worked with at my new job, but there’s a lot of educatin’ to do. or something.
i won’t get into details, but i […]

you know, when I first started riding the Internet, I would occasionally mouth off about something that I knew little about. After getting caught out on that behavior, I stopped mouthing off so much.
I dropped by bgp’s blog and saw a post castigating black men or, at least, one black man of suggesting that black […]

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 […]

as I mentioned in an earlier post, Agustin’s second chapter, “Working to Travel; Traveling to Work,” in her book, Sex at the Margins, intervenes into a set of binary oppositions we hold about traveling, work, migrancy, agency, autonomy, and victims.
The discourse around migrancy, Agustin argues, too often views women as having no agency. They are, […]

there’s this guy on lbo who spend 99% of the time pulling stuff out of his ass and flinging it around so everyone else can enjoy the stench. which is to say, he’s almost always writing from the cuff, asking questions that would have been answered had he actually bothered to read the post or […]

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 […]

a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This […]

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 […]

if you hadn’t guessed — I think I’ve mentioned it before, though — i was an exercise bulemic as a kid. they didn’t have fancy names for anorexia, bulemia back then, let alone the variation, exercise bulemia. i only learned of it later. but like i said in my training journal post just now, i […]

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 […]

guess who?
The emphasis on sucking cunt serves to demystify cunt in a spectacular way — cunt is not dirty, not terrifying, not smelly and foul; it is a source of pleasure, a beautiful part of female physiology, to be seen, touched, and tasted.”
Sucking is an act of the same magnitude as fucking. That […]

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 […]

an awesome interview with Laura D’Agustin, who also has a new blog, where I found this interview. the rest of it is about the panic that surrounds sex work, border crossing, and the rescue industry:
Most people do not arrive penniless, they arrive with their own or borrowed money, even if the amounts don’t seem large […]

i posted this in a thread at lbo’s discussion list. M liked it, so I’m posting it here in case readers might enjoy:
i’m starting to envision the lanky fellah (obama) on a twister mat, with him contorting himself into all kinds of positions. maybe he’ll get contorted enough to suck his own dick, so everyone […]

i am taking a break from packing. laughing as i look at the cover of the Bi-Apple DVD (audacia ray’s feminist skinflick). I can see it from my desk b/c things have been cleared away that had once blocked my view. bi-apple is sitting on the danish modern room divider i found at a sally […]

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 […]