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Lady Business: On Confidence and Self-Advocacy

Social Commentary post by J. Victoria Sanders on June 14, 2012 - 11:01am; tagged self-empowerment, self-promotion, work.
For a long time I was overly modest about my work and sometimes I still am. But I have male colleagues and peers who go overboard talking about themselves and their work. At the end of the day, they get better-paying and more frequent gigs because they know how to advocate for themselves. Nobody tells them that they need to pipe down because no one wants to hear it. Self-advocacy is huge.
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Douchebag Decree: Forty Beads

Douchebag Decree post by Deb Jannerson on June 16, 2011 - 10:32am; tagged books, gender stereotyping, heterosexism, marriage, self-empowerment.

"ye olde douchebag decree" in blue letters with a light blue hand-drawn douchebag in the background, and "BITCH HEREBY DECLARES THE FOLLOWING PERSON A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG" in small letters in red underneath.

If you're straight, monogamous, and female, Carolyn Evans wants to SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE! Her new book, Forty Beads, has "simple, sexy" advice: overcome the "libido gap" between women and men by having sex whenever your husband tells you to.

Hopping angry? It only gets worse.

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Solid Gold Dancer

An interview with Gina Gold by Siobhan Brooks, Illustrated by Julie Feinstein, appeared in issue Issue #11; published in 2000; filed under Film, Social commentary; tagged directing, Exotic Dancers Alliance, film, Lusty Lady, phone sex, race, racism, self-empowerment, sex work.
Issue #11

gina gold is a writer and filmmaker who spent five years in San Francisco’s sex industry, starting out as a phone sex operator, then becoming an exotic dancer at the Lusty Lady, the Market Street Cinema, and the Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theater. Her first film, Do You Want Me to Stay?, grew out of an autobiographical one-woman show that she wrote, directed, and performed at the Luna Sea theater last spring. She is currently working on The Island of Misfit Toys, a memoir.

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