Highlighting the prevailing media treatment of women in sex work: “visual titillation with a side of moral rebuke,” LB discussed the rentboy.com shutdown, power narratives, agency, and the real harm of policies conflating trafficking and sex work. A well-read sex worker knows that male prostitutes are rarely, if ever, written about, or spoken of, with such condescension. Dominick, a… Continue reading Quoted: Lily Burana’s piece for the Cut
Month: September 2015
More Sequins than Cloth
Appears in Issue 9 of Jonathan, September 2015, edited by Raymond Luczak, from Sibling Rivalry Press. Based on true stories merged and barely fictionalized. Érick is also interested in American politics; he asks me about Glenn Beck. When I tell him I believe Beck is an untreated alcoholic with anger issues and delusions, he seems relieved. I think… Continue reading More Sequins than Cloth