– Male resident to female reporter who asked, at the end of an interview, if he had anything else to add (via saidtoladyjournos)
"Call this number for a good time."
Beyond this, everything that’s been going on in this city for the past 2 months and a week is making me extremely nervous for the summer. Things are wild.
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"This morning, close to a decade after we first gathered in San Francisco, I woke up to YouTube messages from the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, Facebook updates from New Orleans and Providence and Los Angeles, and tweets from a march in Kenya. I read this post from Anarchafeministwhore, hitting that hard note that this day does: fighting violence against sex workers might appeal to people – even people who consider themselves allies – who mostly see sex workers as victims. Will those allies support sex workers who also want to fight violent systems? The police who ignore violence, the social service agencies who stigmatize, the rescue industry concerned more with their own numbers games, the so-called “rights” activists who still see jail as a solution to injustice? In the industry I’m in now, I know very well that I’m part of one of the many systems that has done tremendous harm to sex workers, who daily publishes the names and addresses of people arrested on suspicion of being sex workers, who helps feed money and public support to the rescue industry without asking enough critical questions, who gets acclaim for doing all of this. So I ask myself questions rooted in values from sex worker communities: How can I take care of myself? How can I find ways to resist? How can I do no harm?"
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December 17: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers | postwhoreamerica
Sex work is work, sex workers are workers, and this stuff matters. Read Melissa. Every day, not just today.
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Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012
good:
Shortly after David Hoffman, then the foreign editor of The Washington Post, overcame all of his better judgement and decided to send my 23-year-old intern self to Baghdad, he told me to go talk to Anthony Shadid, who was in Washington on book leave. It’s safe to say this prospect terrified me more than the actual trip to Iraq.
GOOD managing editor Megan Greenwell remembers Anthony Shadid, who taught her how to write about the war in Iraq when they were colleagues at The Washington Post.
UNDERSTANDING SHARING
The New York Times Lab is trying to better understand the dynamics of sharing online. If one were to really understand sharing it would be a powerful tool to harness. via gtokio
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