PFFFT-FRACK! POP—SPROING-GING – Don Martin
Today’s the 46th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot, the beginning of the gay rights movement; I’ll say more about that in my column for Tuesday (and I think you’ll like the picture). But today’s video is from Jesse Walker, and the links above it are from Saladin Ahmed, Skye, Franklin Harris, Mistress Matisse and Walter Olson, in that order.
- As one does.
- The artificial leaf.
- R.I.P. Patrick Macnee.
- How many people have cops murdered this year?
- An alphabetical listing of Don Martin’s sound effects.
From the Archives
- Cops, cell phones, menstruation, poop, big government, super powers, Hello Kitty, censorship, socks and the police state.
- “Pleasures of the Harbor”, “Nobody’s Sweetheart”, “Down in the Alley”, “The Grisettes Song” and “Sempre Libera”.
- Does the New York Daily News have editors qualified to recognize an incoherent mess when they see it?
- FBI myth: crack experts at hunting dangerous criminals. FBI truth: lazy pickers of low-hanging fruit.
- Ugly bandwagon-jumping hastens the day when the public is sick of “sex trafficking” nonsense.
- People rotting for decades in prison on bogus “sex trafficking” charges won’t be laughing.
- Cop defines sex worker as “a person who has been probably raped at age 8 if not earlier”.
- Kissing, government, cops, headlines, death, umlauts, bureaucrats & more.
- Should be pasted to forehead of everyone who believes in magic formulae.
- Using “trafficking” myth to restrict migration isn’t usually so transparent.
- It’s such a pleasure to see someone admit this in the mainstream media.
- Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada.
- How little you’d have to change to make this about the war on whores.
- Why can’t Tom Flanagan see the moral panic is already well underway?
- Company which uses exploited labor moralizes about one that doesn’t.
- Sex workers don’t deserve to be stigmatised & don’t want to be pitied.
- Idiot complains job program helps women find lucrative, flexible work.
- A short biography of Marie Duplessis, the real “Lady of the Camellias”.
- FBI helps cops harass coffee shops because the baristas wear bikinis.
- Tanzanian police torture, rape and assault sex worker, among others.
- Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 7 years for unproven victimless crime.
- The ridiculous things that constitute “trafficking” in the Netherlands.
- There were a few Magdalene Laundries in the United States as well.
- The inevitable result of letting “authorities” investigate themselves.
- Christopher Ryan corrects Hugo Schwyzer on “social construction”.
- A prime example of Americans’ criminal ignorance about sex work.
- Politician pretends closing a red-light district will “end prostitution”.
- New Zealand tells Uncle Sam where he can stick his “report card”.
- Why do amateurs care if pros do something better than they do?
- If you thought ultrasound requirements for abortion were bad…
- Jezebel swallows the “trafficking town” myth like a big, slimy…
- How “Gay, Inc” abandoned anyone who isn’t “normal” enough.
- Try to imagine an editorial like this in an American newspaper.
- Some choice words for that “sex working grandmothers” story.
- In which danah boyd takes a few more steps toward the light.
- How service disputes are handled when a profession is legal.
- I do keep telling you that the “gypsy whores” myth is bogus.
- New Jersey gets an early start on “gypsy whores” hysteria.
- How can I make sure my escort experience is enjoyable?
- Gee, I can’t imagine why the police took these paintings.
- Sex workers are dehumanized by calling us “networks”.
- Frantic pearl-clutching over sugar babies from Jezebel.
- More hysteria over structural sex ray contamination.
- Tracy Quan on strange and unpleasant bedfellows.
- The Czech Republic creates a sex work bottleneck.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- A 3000-word mound, reeking to high heaven.
- DA willfully lies about exonerated prisoner.
- Archaeologists discover an ancient brothel.
- Why Gabriela Leite likes the word “whore”.
- Whores leave cooties in rented beds.
- A revival of the Myth of the Wanton.
- My views on a certain video.
- R.I.P. Richard Matheson.
- Pimp cops of the week.
- The bus trip from Hell.