Comments on: Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (2)

By: Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk | a paper bird

Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk | a paper bird — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:33:37 +0000

[…] LGBT people’s rights, is also the world’s most powerful opponent of sex workers’ rights. It promotes ridiculous and regressive myths that all prostitution is “trafficking”; it demands that […]

By: On death threats, trolls, and truth | a paper bird

On death threats, trolls, and truth | a paper bird — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:09:14 +0000

[…] territory. Much more comparable to this kerfluffle was the flurry of opposing e-mails I got about a post on sex work a while back. Some of these raised important questions, most were no more angry than […]

By: Bogeymen « The Honest Courtesan

Bogeymen « The Honest Courtesan — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:03:05 +0000

[…] a powerful barrier to supporting sex workers calls for removal of all laws against adult sex work even among human rights NGOs and advocates. The reality is that sex workers in legal workplaces can challenge exploitation with the same […]

By: Dear Stella, | A Glasgow Sex Worker

Dear Stella, | A Glasgow Sex Worker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:55:01 +0000

[…] member of the Bush administration and current CEO of an anti-trafficking NGO: prostitutes lead “nasty, immoral” lives, for which [we] cannot be found “culpable” only becau…. I’m so glad this man is fighting for the rights of women who sell sex. His NGO, the Polaris […]

By: The Other Problem with Sex Trafficking « jruv

The Other Problem with Sex Trafficking « jruv — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:02:35 +0000

[…] head of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Mark Lagon told Congress, “Emphasizing that all prostitution is not trafficking is counterproductive.” He also […]

By: What we talk about when we talk about trafficking; or, technically, I’ve been trafficked, you know. Part one. | A Glasgow Sex Worker

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:27:46 +0000

[…] Let’s here some more about those numbers from the gripping and hilarious blogger over at Paper Bird (as with Feminist Ire, I can really only advise that you immediately go over there and read the […]

By: Sarah Enany

Sarah Enany — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:51:21 +0000

“It’s the language of fear: fear of the slippery slope and the corrupting precedent, fear of sex, fear that if you support the basic rights of sex workers to deploy their bodies you will find strip clubs under your desk by morning and a brothel in your refrigerator next week.”
OMG. Fangirl squeeing over here. Remind me to hug you next time you come to Egypt.

By: Maxine Doogan

Maxine Doogan — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:04:03 +0000

You know I was contacted yesterday by a researcher from HRW and was very concerned by 1) their lack of attention to how their scientific lack of evidence based research 2) exclude us from meaningful participation in the creation as well 3) as how we’re to benefit from their policy recommendations. Its seems they just interested in jumping on the HIv lobby’s ‘fear of carrying condom’ band wagon to look like they’re doing something for us when really, to make it very clear, they and the HIV lobby are not doing anything for us.