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love

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 9th, 2010 • Category: Archiving, Belly Button Lint, Sex & Sexuality

love this blog i stumbled over: Pervocracy



i’d rather be a whore, than you…

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 6th, 2010 • Category: Archiving, Feminist Fight Club, Politics, Prostitution, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work

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, […]



shame affirmative redux

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Archiving, Belly Button Lint, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Janet Halley, Queer, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



fauxblome

By shag carpet bomb • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Fuckstainery, History, Internet, Labor Struggles, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, douchebaggery

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 […]



lesbian fiction — little help?

By shag carpet bomb • May 6th, 2009 • Category: Queer, Sex & Sexuality

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 […]



nothing like trashing a guy without reading him; guy quotes nikki giovanni, gets accused of being a racist black man who hates black women. whatever!

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 28th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Horseshittery, Sex & Sexuality, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



Speak! CD

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 23rd, 2009 • Category: Announcements, Class, Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Women of Color Feminism



Sex Worker Open University

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Announcements, Feminist Fight Club, Prostitution, Queer, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work

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 […]



get thee to a nunnery!

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



we don’t have to talk to prostitutes to know what prostitution is

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



did you hear the one about a sex club owner and some nuns?

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



sex at the margins: traveling

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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, […]



god damned piece of shit mutherfookin lazy ass

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



moral entrepreneurialism and fundamentalist feminism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins, Third World Feminism

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 […]



tourism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



sex on the margins is a must-read

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex at the Margins

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 […]



exercise bulemic

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Sex & Sexuality

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 […]



Porn in the U.S.A.

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: Catherine MacKinnon, Feminist Fight Club, Porn, Radical Feminism, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics

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 […]



suck

By shag carpet bomb • Nov 27th, 2008 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Radical Feminism, Sex & Sexuality

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 […]



laura agustín on the rise of the “helping (save prostitutes) professions”

By shag carpet bomb • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work

Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities

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 […]



de-victimizing migrants

By shag carpet bomb • Aug 18th, 2008 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work

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 […]



obama’s future as autofellator

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Obama, Sex & Sexuality

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 […]



bi-appling and staging to boost home sales

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Bi Porn, Feminist Porn, Gay Porn, Lesbian Porn, Porn

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 […]



hypersexuality of race

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Asian Feminism, Feminist Fight Club, Orientalism, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, The Hypersexuality of Race, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



whorehouse ethnography

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Work

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 […]



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