tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345127262011-09-02T21:31:46.880+10:00Whoredom,femme,activism,change & growth,strutting over rough terrain in heels,a strong smart femme who can do anything u can but in a pencil skirt & without all the chest beating & blustering.Challenging stereotypes yet using archetypes 4 role-play fodder. Sinking my teeth in2 flesh,smearing lipstick,I like my texts layered & chunky.Can I realise my June Cleaver fantasies & maintain my feminist values? Can I be a dyke & suck cok 4 cash? Where sex radicalism, froufrou & Jane Austen meet 4 tea.whoretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16958939572447998535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34512726.post-77922291490515987832010-12-06T02:05:00.001+11:002010-12-06T02:10:33.380+11:00

SEX WORKER PARTICIPATION CALL OUT!!! INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS ART EXHIBITION For International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers in Sydney this year we are putting on an art exhibition at artist run gallery, Little Fish in Newtown to celebrate the creative resistance we have within our community to the violence and stigma we are threatened with due to our

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Queensland Health is planning to fund health services sex workers –what do YOU want to do with the money?Queensland workers have not been adequately represented since thedemise of SQWISI, and the new group - United Sex Workers Queensland -will fill that gap. United Sex Workers will be managed and staffed bypast and present sex workers to deliver education and support onsexual health and other

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http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-Arts-and-Sports/20090414-Amazonfail-censorship-and-the-book-king.html #amazonfail: With book monopolies like these, no-one is safe TUESDAY, 14 APRIL 2009Overland editor Jeff Sparrow writes On Easter Sunday, weird things happened at uberbookseller Amazon.Inexplicably, the site suddenly reclassified certain titles as containing "adult" content, meaning they

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So I first blogged about stupid sex work laws that didn't do what they were meant to, or just had bad outcomes over here. That was a South Australian story, since I've been living in Melbourne for about a year now, I figured I should write a little bit about the travesty that are the Victorian sex work laws, in particular, mandatory sexual health testing of sex workers. The testing regime in

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is here: sublime femmebecause of this quote:High Femme— Lesbian or queer gender marked marked by a highly stylized and aestheticized form of femme gender expression or identity. Uses exaggeration, artifice, and/or theatricality to denaturalize femininity. When combined with parody or irony, the effect achieved is akin to drag: femininity in quotes. No particular style of dress or external

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Sean Penn took home the Oscar for best actor his portrayal of slain San Francisco gay rights activist Harvey Milk in the movie "Milk" and used his win to defend the right of same-sex couples to wed. "You commie, homo-loving, sons of guns," the sharp-tongued Penn told the audience as he collected his award. "I did not expect this and...I know how hard I make it to appreciate me."

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That just reinforces the obvious... but might be worthwhile to back up an argumentSingle, Angry, Straight Male... Seeks Same?Same sex attraction underlies homophobia in young men

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I really like this article, it's what we all already know, but it's sometimes nice to have research to confirm...Yet more evidence that abstinence-only programs, many of which include virginity pledges, do not work."In the January issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, there's a new study from Janet Rosenbaum of Johns Hopkins University about the effects of

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Femme–an identity that has caused controversy, celebration and ridicule–is now the topic of a two-volume set from Homofactus Press and editor Jennifer Clare Burke titled Visible: A Femmethology. Femmethology calls the LGBTQI community on its own prejudice and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and totally new voices come together to

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Bringing sex workers into the lightSee media related to Sydney-based activities to commemorate this Day (17th December)Originally conceived in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle, it has become an annual international event. The day calls attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the world, as well as the need to remove stigma

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As one of my femme identities is that of drag queen - emphasising that there is nothing natural about most people's performance of femininity - regardless of what is on their birth certificates, I don't mind not passing as a woman - I do most of the times, but in particular environments (particularly about a decade ago in Adelaide, where dyke spaces were a sea of jeans, waistcoats and short hair)

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Scarlet Alliance funded for sex worker peer education In October 2007, sex workers around Australia gathered in Kalgoorlie to hear presentations from migrant sex worker colleagues, including Empower Foundation in Thailand. Sex workers at that meeting resolved to take migrant sex worker rights to Canberra. 12 months later, Canberra is listening, and has granted $250,000 to Scarlet Alliance to

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24259191-5013871,00.html Patricia Karvelas, Political correspondent | August 29, 2008 LABOR'S new gay senator Louise Pratt, who makes history as the first member of parliament with a transgendered partner, has used her maiden speech to break from ALP policy and call for gay marriage to be legalised. The former West Australian state MP is the

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Great links about sex worker activism:Online videos posted by APNSW (Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers)http://www.sexworkerspresent.blip.tv/#1017645And the blog of Crimson Coalition, a network of Brisbane sex workers who are a member organisation of Scarlet Alliance.http://www.crimsoncoalitionqld.blogspot.com/Great to see sex workers doing online activism

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You may not realise this but there are still hundreds of people in immigration detention across Australia.Finally however, the Government is ready to listen and has launched a genuine Inquiry into detention. This is our chance to call for a more humane system, and it is vital that we give the Government a strong mandate for change. Join me in calling for an end to a regrettable chapter in

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Michael DuffyJune 14, 2008http://www.smh.com.au/news/michael-duffy/much-ado-about-a-small-segment-of-the-global-sex-industry/2008/06/13/1213321616701.html A problem that has captured the imagination of our time is the international trafficking of women for sex. It's on the increase because of globalisation, and has become a presence in popular culture. Often the theme of books and television

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http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/religious-condemnation-of-homosexuals-denies-human-rights-20080629-2ytn.html?page=-1Michael Kirby June 30, 2008 A THOUSAND conservative Anglican leaders met in Jerusalem last week, among them Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria who was reported as saying that Anglicans who preach the inclusion of homosexuals in God's church were guilty of apostasy. He is not alone

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I’ve had some time away from blogging as I’ve moved to Melbourne and not been online much. Through the three and a bit years I spent in Sydney, some part of me was always somewhat critical, somewhat held back, as the cultural differences between Adelaide, where I grew up and Sydney were often too stark. Although being a very out, extremely visible sex worker in a small place like Adelaide was

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Elena JeffreysApril 4, 2008The stereotype of the Asian sex slave captures the Australian imagination. When Puangthong Simaplee died in immigration detention in 2001, a story emerged of a girl trafficked to Australia at the age of 12 and forced to have sex as a slave. Her story was given under duress, after the Department of Immigration had taken her into detention, during the first phases of the

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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd declared Australian Workplace Agreements "dead and buried" as Parliament today passed legislation dismantling the Work Choices laws.Mr Rudd has told MPs that today was a landmark day for struggling families across the country and the first step to restoring fairness in the workplace.The Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) Bill was

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The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. (Susan Faludi, Writer)

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http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/78499/Why Do Migrant Sex Workers Need Saving?In the West, in the present, many people believe that sex should express love. This “good” sex is also said to provide a key way to discover personal identity -- who we really are, our innermost selves. It is assumed that feelings of love increase pleasure (quantitatively) and intensify it (qualitatively),

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Body: How to kill a transpersonFebruary 15th, 2008By Ceridwen TroyThis article was written on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008.On Saturday, Sanesha Stewart, a transwoman of color living in the Bronx, was murdered in her own apartment. She was 25 years old. Her accused killer, Steve McMillan, had known her for months, yet when he was arrested, he claimed to have been enraged to find out that she was what the

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http://www.getup.org.au/files/blogs/ruddsorrytext.pdf Today, it felt a little better to be a non-Indigeous Australian. I am proud of the Federal government for the first time in many, many years. I hope this doesn't stop here - that all of the recommendations of the Bringing Them Home Report are implimented. And I am very, very sorry and ashamed of how Indigeous Australian families, culture, and

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Because of a particular person using this blog to contact me as I have blocked them on other things, I've had to disable comments on this blog to avoid continued harassment. Sorry.

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Recently a male sex worker was charged in the ACT under the Prostitution Act on two accounts.“At this stage we do not know if the person is guilty of the charges laid. Mr Scott has pleaded not guilty and deserves and is entitled to a fair trial.” Janelle Fawkes, CEO, Scarlet Alliance.ACT Health has taken the unprecedented step of identifying the infection. “Scarlet Alliance does not support the

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http://www.postqueerproject.com/index.htmlI love this site! Using creative mail art/ postcards to explore and make visible queer identities. Check out the diverse range of post cards they've received, and maybe consider sending one in yourself.

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I read something that made me feel ill today. The war in Iraq is currently costing $250 million a day. I'm sure we can all think of many, many things that money could be better spent on. One that seems relevent to me at the moment, and something to promote economic and political stability, is to put that money into global HIV prevention and treatment. UNAIDS have identified that we need to more

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When I have nightmares, I really go to town. No ‘clowns will eat me stuff’, I dream of scary, apocalyptic happenings. I dreamt the other night that Neo Nazis were taking over, and were herding up all the queers and assorted freaks, to take us away to the camps.You might think, with my long hair and high heels, that I’d be relatively safe…. But then there is that *black triangle tattooed on my

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Origin<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Shakespeare, in Henry IV, Part One, 1596:Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.' Someone said to me recently that this blog is all about politics…. This isn’t the first time someone has mentioned this…. My usual response is “What else is there?”The truth is that who I fuck, how and under what conditions

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This is sort of a post to to usher in the new year, but for me it feels more significant to commemorate some truly wonderful things that have been going on in my world lately, so these are a list of my favourite things over the 2007-2008 period...The defeat of the Howard governmentI approached the lead up to the Federal election with caution, trying not to be too optimistic, but hoping and

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22920391-1242,00.htmlSex workers rally against law reformsDecember 13, 2007 08:11pmArticle from: AAPPROSTITUTES turned out in central Sydney today to mark the 5th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and also to oppose New South Wales law reforms.Spokeswoman Janelle Fawkes said the new sex workers laws, which came into force across NSW in

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasantcharacter in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust,unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, blood-thirsty, ethniccleanser; a mysogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal,filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciouslymalovent bully.~Richard Dawkins~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~

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I’m not usually a fan of the simplistic us/ them, ‘you're either with us or against us’ divides. However, while having an online chat with someone, who brought up one of my online profiles, which identifies that I wish to meet queers with sex positive values, and asked if being sex neutral is enough…I really don’t think so, actuallyIn a society that is so overwhelmingly sex negative, to be sex

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Today (20th November) is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This day was established as a memorial for trans people who have been killed in hate crimes. Today I am also thinking of the wonderful trans and genderqueer folk who have been in my life at different times, and how they have added to my thinking about gender.I look forward to the day when there is room for all of us, and our diversity

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Dear All,The NSW Government passed new laws this year relating to local councils agressively closing brothels that dont have an approved Development Application, which the councils often reject on moral grounds rather than following appropriate guidelines.http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/nm/australia/nsw/http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/laws/nsw/The Adult Busines Association of NSW,

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I was doing some more thinking about slut bashing and came across these pieces online. They speak about the focus on the sexual habits of women who have been raped - worth checking out, as they demonstrate some of the worst aspects of the hatred of sexual women in our culture, I am particularly interested by the idea of shifting the idea of sex from commodity to performance, and the possibly that

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I have written in this space before about the whore stigma, which I see as bigger and broader than specifically about discrimination against sex workers, although the criminalization, stereotyping and institutionalized prejudice against sex workers is definitely the most obvious aspect of the whore stigma.Examples of prejudice against sex workers continue to jump out and slap me all the time: I

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(A reference to the {falsely attributed to Ginger Rodgers herself} quote, that she did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels.) How gorgeous is this seriously meringue frock, though? And I do love that quote - it's always resonated with me, as I've long been a fan of the idea that the trappings of femininity don't have to mean incapable.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2051504.htm(thanks to Mr Bear for the linky)

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And hooray for a new issue of SLIT!

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Alan Carpenter is the Premier of Western Australia and an ex-journalist. Rob Johnson is the shadow Police Minister. This is a snippet from an article on the inside cover of yesterday's paper.__________________________________________Mr A.J. CARPENTER: Has the member ever been to a brothel?Mr R.F. Johnson: No. Have you?Mr A.J. CARPENTER: Yes.Mr R.F. Johnson: Have you?Mr A.J. CARPENTER: Yes.Mr R.F.

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“I was the only kid in the audience who didn’t understand why Dorothy would ever want to go back to that black and white farm and those smelly animals, when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions.”John Waters from This Filthy World (playing at the Dendy through Queer Screen) lookie here: http://www.queerscreen.com.au/j/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=265&extmode=view

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On par with ‘friendly fire’ and ‘collateral damage’'Guantanamo is not a prison. The official term is "detention facility". Although the two most recently built complexes, Camps Five and Six, were modelled on prisons in Indiana and Michigan, it is not acceptable to use the word "prison" at Gitmo. Guantanamo has no prisoners, only "enemies". As in "unlawful enemy combatants" or "detained enemy

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Okay, so I finally got around to answering some of those questions I asked for about sex work, ages ago on this blog. This is half of the answers to the questions, which seemed to group together as being related to sexuality and identity stuff and I'll post soon talking about feminism and about safety issues. I've added some other commonly asked questions, as they also seemed related to issues of

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The song Lady Marmalade was first recorded by Labelle in 1974, and it was inspired by New Orleans sex workers. The French Quarter is the city's red-light district. The song tells the story of a woman known only as "Lady Marmalade", who seduces a man she met on the street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although the man has moved on from the experience, his memories of their tryst remain vivid when he

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http://www.gadling.com/2007/07/30/high-heel-race-in-st-petersburg/Hah! This is nothing.... when I started working in brothels in South Australia, they were regularly raided by the vice squad, so I had a lot of practice running in heels, scaling fences in heels, etc. I consider myself to be a high heel athlete!

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Sex workers demand industry regulationhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/14/2004403.htmPosted Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:01am AEST A small group of sex workers have staged a protest outside a conference in Sydney, calling for the implementation of Department of Planning guidelines on the regulation of the sex industry.The group says a panel of health, planning and local government officials

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I don’t know if it’s a winter thing, and thus Seasonal Affective Disorder related, or specific stresses in people’s lives that by pure coincidence have happened all at the same time, or if crappy mental health is contagious (I suspect a combination of the above) but many people I know have been struggling with mental health issues, and either sinking below the surface or valiantly treading

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Well the off-line world has been so damn exhausting and absorbing that I haven’t been here much at all over the last couple of months. I promise two major updates over the next two weeks – one for International Whores Day activities, and one for the yucky sex work law changes in NSW that have gone down.In the meantime here is a general update of winter highlights, in easily digestible dot points:

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A nice piece of internet media about sex work (including Sydney based sex worker identities) on the sexperts show.http://media.fairfax.com.au/?rid=29740Check it out!

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Most of the laws related to sex work that I have worked under in different jurisdictions around Australia operate in exactly the ways that anyone could least want to them to work. For example, in South Australia, where I spent most of my career to date, most activities to do with sex work are illegal, and up until the last decade or so, heavily policed. These days, the vice squad focus their

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Iemma and Sartor are reversing the decriminalisation of the sex industry in NSW by introducing harsh and discriminatory laws that will oversee eviction of private workers from their homes, power and electricity cut off from non-Council approved brothels, and the Land and Environment Court hearing applications aiming to render entire sections of neighbourhoods 'sex industry free.' The Bill was

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1. The only people truly qualified to speak to the experiences of sex workers, are sex workers themselves.2. Basing a theory on myths and stereotypes and then 'proving' that theory using other myths and stereotypes is not a study - it's a creative writing exercise. 3. Sex workers are living, breathing human beings with hearts and every time you describe them as something other than living,

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Is this Saturday. For more information, see http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/RSVP by calling 9326 9455. All sex workers are invited to free training this Saturday.26th May, 2007 - 10am - 2pmLove the Media and it'll Love You - Tips for Sex Workers and the PressMake no mistake sex workers are very popular with the media. But is there a way for sex workers to take advantage of this, and not just be

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The Victorian era was a peak time for sex work...there were so many sex workers in London under the reign of Queen Victoria - apparently more than ever before or since. There are three key reasons for this:1. The first being economic - with the Industrial Revolution, record numbers of people left rural areas (where they had traditionally lived as peasants, working the land of the local land owner

whoretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16958939572447998535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34512726.post-48789108070623049522007-05-19T16:09:00.000+10:002008-12-10T10:38:18.734+11:00

Stubborn.stub·born (stŭb'ərn) adj., -er, -est.Unreasonably, often perversely unyielding; bullheaded.Firmly resolved or determined; resolute. Characterized by perseverance; persistent.Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort: stubborn soil; stubborn stains.[Middle English stuborn.]I was rereading Hanne Blanks' 'Tits of Clay: Genderphilia and Changing the World, One

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BDSM between femmes: Flicking hair at each other and insulting each others outfits.

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ScabaretZoo and I did the roving performance thing again with Milk’n’Cookies at Scabaret, the opening performance night of the Sheila Autonomista festival (“independent, non-corporate, non-profit, women's art, cultural, political, activist festival held in Sydney”).When we arrived, we were greeted by the ever wonderful Wife who was excitingly competent and looked sternly over a clipboard. After

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< - "Memorial" on Castro Street, San Francisco (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/500375173_8e67c51e7e.jpg?v=0).Well, Jerry Falwell has died, he who loudly opposed racial integration of the Southern States of the US, he who was critical of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, he who famously promoted the notion that AIDS is God’s punishment, and “outer’ of Tinky Winky, the hand bag carrying Teletubby in

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So I’ve been dealing with some anti-femme attitudes and behaviour lately. I’m not really blogging to address those attitudes – I’ve mostly dealt with those things with the people concerned, or don’t have enough respect for the people concerned to let their attitudes affect me. I am blogging about it, as I am so weirded out that queers – as opposed to loony anti-sex, anti-everything ‘feminists’

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Download the interview with Roberta and Mistress J last week:http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2007/1902553.htmThe private world of the Call GirlWhat sort of image does the term Call Girl conjure in your mind?We might imagine it's through a certain desperation – perhaps debt or sexual dysfunction – but there are myriad reasons for choosing to work in this field, and a wide range of

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International Whores Day has a rich history, starting in 1975 when a group of sex workers staged a sit in at a Church in Lyon in France, to protest the discrimination against sex workers.In Lyon, France on June 2 1975, sex workers and their supporters took over a church and staged a sit in over a number of days. The action was in protest against the increasing number of arrests of street sex

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I found this online today, http://www.blackheartsparty.com/It is gorgeously over the whole lurve thing. Where else can you get your greedy little paws on cards featuring road kill, and the inner message,"thinking of you" or the 'sorry we're breaking up' cards with a cutie love teddy with an axe through its head? Where else can you acquire t-shirts proclaiming "needy and clingy" and "will fuck for

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So there is this moth recently found in Madagascar, that feeds on the tears of birds. It has a long, harpoon like proboscis, which it inserts under the eyelids of sleeping birds, in order to drink from their tears. This latest find joins other moth species who drink the tears of elephants. The good news in all this that even at my most bouncy and boundaryless, I have yet to decend to this level

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 / 6.00 for 6.30pmRoberta Perkins, Frances LovejoyCall Girls: Private Sex Workers in AustraliaPublished by: UWA PressTo be launched by Janelle FawkesVenue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, GlebeCost: FreeRSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333A comprehensive study of women working in the Australian sex industry - usually outside of brothels and often via telephone from home (thus their

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Gurlesque last night was wonderful in so many ways as usual. Glita's nun piece once again left me both squeally and speechless. Minx Contortionista doing Dietrich. Strawberry Pop being too cute for words. Sex in shower cap (well, it worked for me). Handyboi and Lillian Starr doing Bond. Wife and Domino - the joy of gorgeous activist women. Miss Sindy Ray bunnying. Madam Phantasm bunnying. Zoo

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After Oestrus bunnying at Sly with Zoo and others - with the Sydney debut of my fabby chocolate vulvas, and wonderful performances by Wife - who managed to incorporate cats and aproning..... dribble........ and the lurverly Lillian Starr..... I will be hocking my ass on Good Friday for the first time in years. We'll see if guilt over the death of the consort keeps the men away.I really should be

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Someone told me this week that I am a huge flirt. I wasn't exactly surprised, However, sometimes when I am bouncing around, crawling all over random people, I am not even seeing it in those kind of terms. I am often crawling over one or more people with definite intent, but sometimes - and this is why I usually give bioguys a wide berth - my exuberant behaviour is directed at the universe in

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Cinnamon, one of my beautiful furry beasts, was entertaining the household this morning by doing delightful full body roll and slide maneuvers on the lounge room rug. Zoo commented on the similarities between Cinnamon's and my approach to getting attention. It reminded me of how I used to see a client when I was fairly new to sex work, who asked me to act sexy. It's a difficult thing to summon up

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I went to see The Notorious Bettie Page on Monday night. I know it has gotten some pretty mixed reviews, but I really liked it (and not just for the shoes – although they were pretty good). A lot of reviews I have read seem to see the film as an amiable bit of fluff – and probably not delving deeply into the motivations of Ms Page….I felt it was a pretty accurate reflection of everything I had

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Well, I've finally moved in to the queer grrrl frat house. The move was making me crazy and I was acting like a total cranky frock with working days at my various jobs, then heading over to the old place to pack more boxes, then on to the frat house to sleep for about 5 hours before starting all over again. There was a couple of weeks when I was trudging about in jeans with my hair scraped into a

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YouTube video posted by the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, is posted here. One Whore looks at the hideous practices of 'rescue organisations', that basically kidnap sex workers from their workplaces in the Asia Pacific regions, and 'retrain' them in basket weaving or sewing (both on a par with sex work, in terms of earning power, not! Way to keep the poor in their poverty), and the funding

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I've been posting a few self care related posts at the moment - I apologise if they seem self indulgent or just dull. I think some of these issues may resonate for some other people, and if they do, I hope it feels helpful. I don't necessarily have all the answers about good mental health - it's something I am always learning about.When I am exhausted, stressed or unwell, I really struggle with

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Sex workers demand to be heardhttp://www.theglebe.com.au/article/2007/03/13/1298_news.html13Mar07A GROUP of local sex workers held a protest at a Marrickville Council meeting last Tuesday.About 12 people, most from the Sex Workers' Rights Action Coalition, protested in front of the council building and in the chambers against the council's decision to seek a cap on the number of brothels in the

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"The spring that Trumpet was born, there were so many new foals in the pasture that almost no one notices there was a sassy little colt who didn't belong to any of the mares.... " Carson Kressley from Queer Eye for the Str8 Guy has written a book. Details here.

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It kicked in about a month ago. I had spent the last year and a bit single - except for mostly easy going dating - in order to break out of old yucky patterns. The biggest part of the year was spent examining my own unhealthy, unhelpful relationship beliefs, that kept me in places I didn't want to be. I felt like I had to keep going further and further with this stuff, until I could trust myself

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You are invited to an evening of short films about sex worker rights, next Friday 16th March from 6-9pm at Jura Books 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham, Sydney.an evening of diverse, dynamic shorts by sex worker film-makers from canada to cambodia, presented by women from the australian sex worker rights movement. direct cinemais a non-profit projectsuggested donation $5.00to help cover running costs.

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I've been pretty stressed since about September last year. Having to do lots of organising work, which is so far from being my forte, it may as well be the work of a diesel mechanic, along with a death, and ongoing financial issues (thanks to the Howard government economic and welfare reforms the sex industry is ridiculously oversupplied and is now a very unpleasant buyers market), my coping

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Marrickville Council are in a fix!! They are in the dark about sex worker rights, are sure that the only way to stop sex workers being a magnet for disease and crime is 'cap' our numbers!!!Sounds like a job for the ....Gotham Whores!!!6.00pm 2-14 Fisher Street, PetershamTuesday 6th MarchCome along and join the caped crusaders as we save Marrickville Council from itself. Dress Gotham.Sex workers

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Have a listen:http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2007/1853131.htm

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Challenge the notion that there is something more harmful or dangerous about consensual sex than the risk of pulling a muscleQuestion why street-based sex workers are more of a nuisance for local residents than that busker doing off-key Led Zeppelin coversWonder why people working for multi-national corporations that bulldoze old growth forests or exploit third world labour think we should get a

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"Seeing oneself through the eyes of others is what modernity has asked of religion. The other in this case is a competing plurality of others, including different religious faiths, scientific knowledge, and political institutions. Fundamentalism is the rejection of this cluster of challenges, which Habermas describes as 'the repression of striking cognitive dissonances' and the return to 'the

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Everyone probably knows all about this event, but I’m posting about it anyway, as there is a sexy picture of Sex on the flyer.

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Carrie: First they want you to come there two times a week, then three times a week, and eventually you're starting every sentence with 'my therapist says... 'Miranda: My therapist says that's a very common fear. Sex In The CityIt seems like a dodgy mental health time for many people I know. So I was thinking about how hard it is to find a decent therapist/ psychologist/ psychiatrist / counsellor

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The multitude of glorious femme presences in Sydney is very exciting. I attended the opening of Domestic Love @ Kudos Gallery, Paddington on Tuesday. Gorgeous art by glorious femmes, some serious frockage worn by attendees and they served pink iced cupcakes and musk sticks *sigh!*If you haven’t seen this exhibition yet, I highly recommend it – femmy/ domestic/ housewifery themed art, all curated

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I've been thinking lately about the high price of femme. I've always had a hard time defining exactly what it is that I'm talking about - what I'm meaning when I speak of femme. What is this word code for? When asked by an andro dyke I used to work in a parlour with, I described it as 'restraint as art form'. This still kinda works for me as a description of my own femme expression. I know that

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Peggy McIntosh, a white woman who works in womens studies was thinking about how men don't acknowledge their priveleged status, which got her to start thinking about her own as a white person. The result is The White Privelege Checklist. Then Amp, a guy put together a Male Privelege Checklist. Three more I like are The Non-Trans Privelege Checklist, The Christian Privelege Checklist, and a group

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This picture here from the Gender PAC website. They come from the Gap. Arrggghhhh!!!! Also, this is serious, and kinda painful to read, but it's from the website Emi Koyama, "the activist/author/academic working on intersex, sex workers' rights, (queer) domestic violence, genderqueer, anti-racism, and other issues". On a non-gender activism note, I was strolling around the net randomly, and

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After taking it a bit easier for a few weeks, less trashiness at the Sly Fox, more relaxed forms of socialising - Wizard of Oz watching with Madam Phantasm, lunches and coffees with Zoo, walks in the park with a charming gentlebutch and New Years Eve picnicking with whore activists - the last week and a bit has been full on - adventures at Gurlesque (in which Wife was amazing - all exuburance,

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Hmmm... there has been times over the last month when I've considered that trying to do celebacy and quitting smoking at the same time is a bit much of an ask of my poor little old will power. Maybe I'll take up biting my nails (celebacy has meant that I'm allowing them to grow past fisting length). I have a feeling that I have some unexplored stuff that needs to be finished from my last Saturn

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I don't want to be the filler if the void is solely yoursI don't want to be your glass of single malt whiskeyHidden in the bottom drawerI don't want to be a bandage if the wound is not mineLend me some fresh airI don't want to be adored for what I merely represent to youI don't want to be your babysitterYou're a very big boy nowI don't want to be your motherI didn't carry you in my womb for nine

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Debby Doesn't Do It For Free at Gurlesque. This Sunday at Gurlesque, Debby Jelly Belly will be performing Olympic Whore. Also performing is Wife.Debby Diamante Dildo Harness (um, that would be me) will be doing Unrepentant - with assistance from Disorganised Debby and Decriminalise Debby - at the February Gurlesque show.

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Negotiating friendships in a new town has certainly been a rollercoaster. I've tried to keep open and allow myself to refrain from making snap judgements. Being really out about my sex work has almost always made new friendships challenging - many people have assumed I'm sexually available to them even when I'm being clear that isn't the case. I've never understood why people believe that someone

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I don't really do New Years resolutions - I ask the Goddess for things I need - then instead of getting them, I am presented with challenges in those area that ultimately force me to develp greater skills and strength to tackle the identified challenges. I've always attributed an impish sense of humour to the deities, so in place of wish fulfillment, I get 'choose your area of difficulty to

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On June 2, 1975, a group of sex workers in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Lyon, France, and their supporters took over a church to protest against police harassment of street workers, increasing numbers of arrests and a lack of interest shown by police in solving murders and other crimes committed against those working in the sex industry.<?xml:

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First sign I was a feminist:Sitting in church every week, listening to the sermons given by the Priest. Thinking that's what I wanted to be when I grew up (I was maybe 4 at a guess). I thought I'd be able to give really inspiring sermons, shifting people's attitudes and lifestyles for the better. When I worked out I could never be a priest because I was a grrrl, a cold core of anger formed in my

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I've had many, many of those conversations I refer to as 'sex work 101' with people, where people know I'm a sex worker, and want to check out bad movie/ media stereotypes about sex work, or just find out what it's like to be a sex worker. It can get a wee bit draining after the 50,000th time you're asked the same questions, but it feels important that the community education happens. And I'd

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