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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 7, 2017I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she didn’t look at m...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / August 11, 2017#womenslives: I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she di...
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#picturethis: Eight years of American strip clubs (NSFW)
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / April 25, 2017All photographs © Juliana Beasley/Contact Press Images, 1992–2001. Ms. Beasley’s book on New York’s Rockaways is forthcoming. “I realized that there are many motives behind why women, myself includ...
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#womensstories: Enforcing Northern Ireland’s new Swedish-style sex purchase law (via @RuthJacobs/ @roomofourown)
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 17, 2015Cross-posted from: Ruth Jacobs, originally published: 19.11.14.A rainy night in Belfast. Cold and wet with a wind whipping round the corners of the barren streets where women used to stand. How things...
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#research: Identity, experience, choice and responsibility (keynote by @alisonphipps)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 9, 2015I hope Alison doesn’t mind me posting her recent keynote in its entirety here. It is too good and important not to share. All © Alison Phipps: Genders, bodies, politics, via A Room of Our Own.Th...
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womensstories: ‘I came to the UK and I was turned into a prostitute’
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 24, 2015Ellie: ‘Putting trafficked people in prison – that is the worst part of it’When Ellie, 32, describes the first part of her life, she races through the disturbing details in a neutral tone; the problem...
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#maleficentmisogyny: It’s time to talk about the johns
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / July 3, 2015The lengths to which sex industry apologists will go to in order to push the idea that buying sex is synonymous with sexual liberation and empowerment never ceases to amaze me. While “progressives” fi...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “My 25 years as a prostitute”
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / June 30, 2015[…] I would watch women with big glamorous hair and sparkly dresses standing on the street outside our house. I had no idea what they were up to; I just thought they were shiny. As a little gir...
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#womensstories: “I started working as an escort when I was 19…”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 7, 2015I started working as an escort when I was 19. I was in my second year of college and struggling to make ends meet. I knew I didn’t want to take out student loans, but I didn’t really know what else to...
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#maleficentmisogyny: men who buy sex: in their own words
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / April 17, 2015Men who buy women and children for sex often regard them as less than human. We know this because the men themselves openly say so both in research and on customer review websites where men detail and...
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#research: Men Who Buy Sex: Who They Buy And What They Know
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 16, 2013This is a research study of 103 men who describe their use of trafficked and non-trafficked women in prostitution, and their awareness of coercion and violence. Authors: Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel a...
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#research: Saturated market ‘putting prostitutes at risk’ [TW]
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 12, 2013A report says that sex workers in Westminster are at greater risk of violence because of a fall in demand and an increase in those selling sex.The study by Westminster Council shows the recession has ...
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