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Sep
14

The New Antipornography Slide Show

One of three reports written for the feminist newsjournal off our backs covering the Pornography and Pop Culture: Reframing Theory, Rethinking Activism conference held at Wheelock College in March 2007.
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Sep
14

Pornography, Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: How Do You Tell the Difference?

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One of three reports written for the feminist newsjournal off our backs covering the Pornography and Pop Culture: Reframing Theory, Rethinking Activism conference held at Wheelock College in March 2007.
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Jul
9

Hey, progressives! Cathouse got your tongue?

The Portland Alliance, July 2006

 

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.”

-Rebecca West, 1913

 

The above quote by Rebecca West has recently been debated among quote collectors and feminists. It seems many people have been passing along a version that cuts off the last three words, “or a prostitute,” mostly without knowing the full quotation ever contained them. Such Orwellian rewritings of a historic quotation concern me, and as an activist working with prostituted women I can tell you there’s nothing they consider more disrespectful than when academic eggheads elide the ugly, violent truths about their lives.

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Apr
6

Portland at crossroads of human trafficking

The Portland Alliance, April 2006

 

In a city famous for its politicized public citizenry, the nonprofit civic organization City Club of Portland stands out as a respected forum for community education. Its Friday Forums series was established to bring pressing civic issues to concerned citizens, and on Feb. 17 the topic of pressing social concern discussed was human trafficking.
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Jan
4

“It’s up to you”: Prostitution, Censorship and Sweden

Self-published at Portland Indymedia, this essay serves as the front page of a website I created specifically as a standing feminist action, www.spreademism.com.

 

spread’emism (spread-them-ism), n. 1. the misleading idea that women can fuck and get fucked into political, academic and social equality with men via prostitution and pornography.

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Prostitution FAQ

In 2005, I endeavored to write the best prostitution FAQ on the web and it still is.

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