Outlaw Media
Sex worker perspectives on gender, relationships, and society.
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Seeing Red: Our New Film on Media Bias & Sex Work (opens the original)
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Sex workers have never gotten a fair shake in the American media. From stigmatizing headlines to sensationalized Hollywood plots, decades of biased portrayals have fueled the hatred, stigma, and violence that has dogged our community for generations. According to the United Nations, female sex workers have the highest homicide victimization rate compared to any other set of women ever studied.Certainly there has to be a more effective and compassionate way to cover the topic of vi
9/14: Sex Worker Pride is This Monday (opens the original)
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My New Documentary Confronts Media Portrayals of Sex Workers (opens the original)
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Sex Work and Burnout (opens the original)
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Shiloh, a stripper based in Vegas, joined me for a discussion about burnout, which is something that most sex workers experience. We talk about how it affects us, as workers and as queer femmes dealing with cis men as clients. Shiloh also explains how it affects her libido, and, in turn, her relationship. Tangents include: Contemplating the perfect height for a stripper heel, realizing we were queer in our late 20s, and the strip club as a laboratory to study heteropatriarchy.Announcements & Lin
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