The Queen’s endorsement of the exploitation of women is devastating
Earlier this month, Her Majesty the Queen gave official honours to two people who have done more than most to hide the egregious violence experienced by women and girls trapped in the sex trade. A...
View ArticleDennis Hof is dead, but his legacy lives on through those who advocate to...
I am never relieved when evil men die. Rather, I feel angry — ripped off. Those men never got their comeuppance. Today, a king among evil men died too soon. Just 24 hours ago, Dennis Hof was...
View ArticleSex work advocates attempt to no-platform journalist, Chris Hedges, after...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, is scheduled to give the keynote speech at an upcoming conference about resource extraction at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The State of Extraction,...
View ArticleMale progressives who support harm reduction need a lesson in feminism and in...
I’ve covered the failures of progressive media platform, Ricochet, when it comes to “the woman question,” in the past, but feminist critiques have not dissuaded their male writers from pontificating...
View ArticleOver 400 women’s groups & advocates sign letter protesting Amnesty...
The human rights organization, Amnesty International, has quietly been trying to pass a policy proposal calling for the decriminalization of the sex industry. It was only this month they announced...
View ArticleJezebel fails feminists, chooses snark over respect, humanity, & accuracy
It’s easy to hate on Jezebel, I know. It’s also easy to hate on Feministing and xoJane and, really, any website covering feminist issues, ourselves included. They’re liberals, we’re “whorephobic,”...
View ArticleAmnesty cracks champagne in celebration of johns’ rights
Amnesty International has voted in favour of adopting a policy that supports the “full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work.” That is to say, they will be developing a policy that...
View ArticleAfter Amnesty, what’s next? A call to global action
I was in Europe doing research for Female Sexual Slavery in 1977 when I met with the Executive Director of Amnesty International in London. I had thought, naively, that in following their mandate to...
View ArticleNDP supporters demand Canada’s progressive party be accountable to women
Three white men decide the fate of marginalized women across Canada. (The Liberals’ Bill Morneau, the Greens’ Chris Tolley, and the NDP’s Craig Scott. Image/Jonathan Goldsbie/Now Toronto) Open Letter...
View ArticleThomas Mulcair & the NDP respond to open letter about Bill C-36
Last week we published an open letter to Canada’s self-professed progressive party, the NDP, asking they be accountable to women in Canada as well as to feminists and leftists who’ve supported the...
View ArticleChris Hedges interviews Rachel Moran about prostitution, violence, & men who...
On Tuesday’s episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, host, Chris Hedges, speaks with author and activist, Rachel Moran, about her book, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, and the myths...
View ArticleAre we hearing ‘sex workers’ when we listen to them?
Hello press, shut up and #listentosexworkers! #sexwork — Fem4SexWorkersRights (@SupportSWRights) August 17, 2015 When it comes to decriminalizing pimps and johns, we are constantly told to “listen to...
View ArticleRemembering the murdered women erased by the pro-sex work agenda
Eva Marree Smith Kullander, a Swedish mother of two, was stabbed to death by her ex-husband during a supervised visit with her children on July 11, 2013. A few years prior to her murder, Kullander...
View ArticleIt’s time for Mayor Gregor Robertson to follow through on his commitment to...
On Wednesday, November 18th, in East Vancouver, about a dozen people from the Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighbourhood attended a panel discussion called Creating John-Free communities. Panel members...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn thinks legalized prostitution is ‘civilized’— think again
On Thursday, leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn revealed his position on prostitution to Goldsmiths university students, saying: “I don’t want people to be criminalized. I want to be [in] a...
View ArticleFrance adopts the Nordic model
On April 6, 2016, the French National Assembly recognized prostitution as a form of violence against women, voting to criminalize the purchase of sex in France. Under the new law, prostituted people...
View ArticleThe Nordic Model is not de facto criminalization
In case you missed the big news, France has become the latest country to adopt the so-called Nordic Model (or, as some prefer, “Swedish Model”) of prostitution policy. This has led to another round of...
View ArticleUnethical practices produce New York Times’‘sex work’ story
Screen shot: New York Times Magazine cover story, May 5, 2016. Over the weekend, Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times, published an article called “Should Prostitution Be a Crime?” What...
View ArticleVancouver residents & women’s groups demand Mayor Gregor Robertson enforce...
Vancouver City Hall, June 14, 2016 (Photo: Irwin Oostindie) At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, just over 100 people gathered on the front steps of Vancouver City Hall to demand Mayor Gregor Robertson follow...
View ArticleOpen letter to Justin Trudeau & Jody Wilson-Raybould: Help us end...
Protest against Canadian prostitution laws outside the Supreme Court in Ottawa (Image/CP) To the Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada and the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould Minister of...
View ArticlePeter Tatchell’s approach to prostitution is anything but progressive
Peter Tatchell Peter Tatchell’s political interventions — in particular his “outing” of prominent figures for their hypocrisy in publicly condemning homosexuality whilst being gay — have cast him as a...
View Article‘Everybody’s doing it!’ and other bad arguments in defense of prostitution
Hello old friend, it’s been awhile. Sometimes I think a day will come when I won’t need to respond to Hollywood-fueled delusions that imagine prostituted women are all rich nymphomanics driving...
View ArticleNo, California Democrats have not legalized child prostitution
California Attorney General Kamala Harris. (Image: Damian Dovarganes/AP) The Washington Examiner is breathlessly insisting that progressive, California Democrats have legalized child prostitution....
View ArticleThe contemporary cult of the ‘sex worker’
Image: Stuart/Flickr In certain social circles, praising “sex workers” has become fashionable. How has prostitution — an outdated, slavery-like industry — been made to look so modern? A BBC Three...
View ArticleProstitution legislation must include women in the porn industry
From left to right: Cherie Jiminez, Per-Anders Sunesson, Gail Dines, Julie Bindel, Clara Berglund. (Image: Gail Dines/Facebook) I remember when I was first struck by the question: If prostitution is...
View ArticleJulie Bindel’s ‘The Pimping of Prostitution’ destroys sex trade myths with...
“Listen to sex workers” has become the rallying cry of those who oppose legal restrictions on the sex trade. Well, Julie Bindel has listened. The Pimping of Prostitution is built around 250...
View Article‘It’s not the laws that kill our women. It’s not the streets that kill our...
Bridget Perrier speaking at Julie Bindel’s book launch. Image: YouTube Prostitution or sex work? Your choice of words gives the game away, marks out where you stand on the issue. Violence against...
View ArticleVancouver Women’s March becomes opportunity for misogynist threats against women
A little over a week before the Women’s March was to take place in Vancouver, BC, March On (the organization that put on the event this year) announced one of the speakers would be “Hailey Heartless”...
View ArticleNew Zealand is squandering an opportunity to help women in prostitution...
The last week of April, New Zealand was at Level 4 of the country’s four-tiered alert system in response to COVID-19, and I was sick, but not from the virus. An article published at The Guardian...
View ArticlePODCAST: Daphna Morell and Luba Fein on the feminist movement in Israel
The global women’s movement is a force to be reckoned with. The fight against the sex trade has been particularly successful in Israel, where feminists united to pass The Prohibition of Consumption of...
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