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From the Library: Reading about Sex Work

From the Library post by Ashley McAllister on March 25, 2011 - 12:49pm; tagged Annie Oakley, book reviews, From the Library, Michelle Tea, sex industry, sex work, Siobhan Brooks.



Here at the Bitch Community Lending Library, we're spending the spring talking about sex work. Last Tuesday, our book club got together to discuss Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry edited by Annie Oakley. In April we'll be discussing Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry by Siobhan Brooks, and in May we'll read Rent Girl by Michelle Tea. If you're in Portland, come to our book clubs! But regardless of where you are, if you're looking to put a few books that explore the sex industry on your bedside table, you should read along with us.

If there are other books about sex work that you would like to recommend to readers, leave them in the comments!

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"Who gave you the right?": Indian sex workers talk back to filmmakers

Movies post by Kjerstin Johnson on October 8, 2010 - 11:27am; tagged representation, sex work, sex workers.
Not that I would expect post-modern, transnational feminist film work to come out of the slimy "it's not misogyny/racism, it's ironic!" Vice-magazine's video site, VBS.tv, but the thirty-minute documentary "Prostitutes of God," on devadasi sex workers in India, is dangerously western-centric, anti-sex work, and completely misrepresents the sex workers it focuses on.

Only there's a twist to this one-sided voyeurism--the film subjects are taking the filmmakers to task for misrepresenting their lives. Enraged about the compromised representation of their gods, their work, and their lives, the sex workers made a response video.
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$pread magazine closes shop

Sex and Sexuality post by Kjerstin Johnson on August 24, 2010 - 1:52pm; tagged independent magazines, independent publishing, sex work, sex workers.
Sadly, $pread, the all volunteer-run quarterly written by and for sex workers, posted yesterday that they can no longer sustain their magazine:

We regret to inform you that...$pread will close its glittery doors soon after the dawn of the New Year...We apologize for those of you who have only recently come to know us, and to all our longtime supporters. After all these years, five all-volunteer years to be exact, we have come to the conclusion that an all-volunteer magazine is simply unsustainable in the current publishing climate. Short of a donation of $30,000, we will be unable to sustain the magazine past January.
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Feminism: Cool in college, ugly in the "real world"

Love / Shove post by Andi Zeisler on July 23, 2009 - 1:45pm; tagged $pread, Ew, feminism! Joanna Angel, no comment, porn, sex work.

"[The word "feminist"] has an ugly ring to it. I actually stopped using the term a while ago because it sounds so mean. It sounds so unsexy. I think it's come to [indicate] angry women who don't like men at all and don't like having sex, so I can see why people stray away from it. It's not one of those things you want to bring up in everyday conversation. But I know I am one....

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Literature to lose your lunch by

DigiBitch post by Suzanne Kleid on April 21, 2009 - 10:04pm; tagged body acceptance, book reviews, books, discomfort, female writers, Germany, literature, menstruation, period, sex work.
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Upon completion of Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, two major questions remain unanswered for me. First, what is it exactly about this book that made it the first German-language book to ever become the number-one Amazon.com bestseller, worldwide? And second: What in the name of Mary Wollestonecraft does a one-joke grossout book have to do with feminism?
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