sex workers « Shanna Katz M.Ed, ACS — Board Certified Sexologist and Sexuality Educator

Not Having To Use Your Real Name

For those of you who are unaware, one of the MANY issues with Google+ (in addition to having the big “male/female/other” requirement, and being SUPER hostile to adult content, including links to adult content marked NSFW) is that they are requiring you to use your legal name. If it is found that you are not [...]

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Much of this is taken from the Sex Worker Outreach Project. Let me tell you that sex workers are people. They are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, offspring. They are friends, lovers, scared, excited, in love, loving, caring, hurting, sharing, and much more. I have been a sex worker, and often consider myself one as I [...]

Red Umbrella Project is hiring a Blog Carnival Curator

Re-posted from Audacia Ray.

The Red Umbrella Project (http://redumbrellaproject.com/ or on FB as http://facebook.com/redumbrelladiaries) is looking for a Blog Carnival Curator for our monthly sex worker blog carnival. Check out what we’ve been doing with the Carnival so far here: http://www.redumbrellaproject.com/category/blog-carnival/

(this is also posted here: http://www.redumbrellaproject.com/were-hiring-blog-carnival-curator/)

Duties:

Write and circulate a monthly announcement about the theme of the [...]

Our Responsibility

4 years ago, I emailed Audacia Ray and Jamye Waxman. I’m sure the letter was slightly more eloquently written, but each of them boiled down to:

“Hi. You are a sex-positive feminist who works with adults, sex workers, people in the adult industry, and more. I want to grow up to be like you — [...]