If the mayor defunds the police, I’m going to shoot her.
– “Officer” Steve Poulos
This week’s video was tweeted by J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5, as a farewell to Mira Furlan (“Delenn”); I think it speaks for itself. The links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse, Sola Love, Phoenix Calida, Franklin Harris, Radley Balko, Amy Alkon, and Gustavo Turner, in that order.
- Headline of the week.
- “Take only as directed“.
- Carrying an umbrella while black.
- R.I.P. Mira Furlan and Hank Aaron.
- Not. For. Any. Reason. Whatsoever.
- At first glance I missed the word “candle”.
- I laughed so hard I literally couldn’t breathe.
From the Archives
- The “Victorian doctors invented female masturbation” myth dates to 1999.
- “Promoting debauchery” in Egypt is as “promoting prostitution” in the US.
- It’s good to see more writers criticizing insulting hooker tropes in movies.
- This’ll never change while screws have absolute power over their victims.
- The public believes anything it sees on billboards, no matter how absurd.
- Authoritarians make an unconstitutional censorship scheme even worse.
- The UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of online ads yet.
- Still think those toothless facial recognition bans will rebottle the djinni?
- Actresses & whores were until recently considered the same profession.
- Trump has finally made it acceptable to question “sex trafficking” porn.
- GAATW is the only “anti-trafficking” group concerned with exploitation.
- Another dumb article about a phenomenon that probably doesn’t exist.
- Imbecile “journalists” get tangled up in their own stupid assumptions.
- If you want a good threesome, you really need to hire a professional.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2016 and 2017, mostly.
- 18 months between a blatant offense and actually being fired for it.
- This mass surveillance tool won’t long be restricted to sex workers.
- If I climax quickly in a long date, is it OK to ask for another round?
- Another anti-migrant pogrom using the excuse of “sex trafficking”.
- Truckers Against Trafficking uses sexual fantasies as propaganda.
- There is no “debate”; this was unilaterally imposed by politicians.
- Prohibitionists want people to think the Swedish model is decrim.
- While stigma and criminalization exist, this will keep happening.
- Tumblr made its bed, and now look who’s lying in it with them.
- Many more people die from scalpels than from meat cleavers.
- In this anti-whore climate, a wholly predictable development.
- Cops, metaphors, John Karlen, Terry Jones, and much more.
- Cops never miss a chance to humiliate marginalized people.
- The majority of self-reports about sexual accidents are lies.
- Cops are still masturbating to the “barcode tattoo” fantasy.
- Pig talks dirty to another pig who’s pretending to be a kid.
- Just another typical and representative government thug.
- Not much of a sentence for attempted kidnapping & rape.
- Theresa Flores is still selling her magical anti-pimp soap.
- All Londoners are now part of a perpetual police lineup.
- Cops, Florida, Antarctica, the Muppets and much more.
- How “sex trafficking” myths resemble pulp sci-fi tales.
- In which I finish one video project and begin another.
- It’s rare to see a sympathetic article in the UK press.
- 40% increase in violence after FOSTA became law.
- Hotels are training their staff to harass women.
- More articles about the odious Kamala Harris.
- Another sex worker turned performing artist.
- More of the racist “nail salon slaves” myth.
- A short video of Fredric Wertham in action.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2019 and 2020.
- Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- Diversifying my income streams.
- 500 weeks of blogging.
- Oh, what a surprise.