Audacia Ray's Blog, page 27
March 9, 2013
redupnyc:
March 9 & 10, Pros(e) is FREE in the Kindle...
March 9 & 10, Pros(e) is FREE in the Kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/Pros-1-ebook/dp...
(Even if you don’t have a Kindle device, its accessible, because there are free Kindle apps for all kinds of devices - learn more here:http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771)
March 8, 2013
ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival presents 'Scarlet Road' this Saturday March 9th
Scarlet Road Video from Paradigm Pictures on Vimeo.
Tickets for Scarlet Road are available for purchase here.
Use discount code EFDRUP13 for $3 off the ticket price!
March 6, 2013
"It’s making me really mad all the non-sex worker reactions to the condom arrests in New York (which..."
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- From an anonymous friend of the site, made rebloggable by request.
We agree! We wholeheartedly agree!
(via sexworkerproblems)
oohhhhhh yeah. I feel like I’m on autopilot now when I carefully explain that no, getting profiled as a sex worker and arrest on a prostitution offense for carrying condoms can’t happen to “anyone” and yes, you should still care. (that said I will keep explaining that and encouraging people to bitch to their elected reps about how ridiculous it is, and damn we need to get bill S1379/A2736 passed this year.
Red Umbrella Project: The Village Voice article: 'New York's Condom Bait-and-Switch' & No Condoms as Evidence Bill
The Village Voice posted an article today about the No Condoms as Evidence Bill, or ‘NYC Condom insanity’ as they saw it, detailing the actual repercussions that have unfolded on to people who work in the sex trades.
We’ve been working very hard with other organizations to help eliminate…
topsidepress:
If you can’t or don’t want to purchase The...
If you can’t or don’t want to purchase The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard —it’s also on torrent! DRM-free and available now.
**If you can afford to buy it, your purchases from the Topside Bookstore help fund our new titles and bring new transgender lit to you.
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I bought my copy because supporting indie presses is awesome and this book is relevant to my interests. And you should too if you can.
But its pretty fucking awesome that Topside Press, the publisher, is letting folks know that its available on torrent for free.
redupnyc:
(New podcast episode alert! We’re going to be...
(New podcast episode alert! We’re going to be releasing a new ep every other Wednesday)
Anna Saini tells a story about a photographer she worked with in Detroit and their mutual messy relationship with the sex industry. She read this excerpt from her piece “Sin,” which was published in the Red Umbrella Project’s literary journal, Pros(e), issue #1. She read this piece on January 6, 2013 in New York City.
Anna Saini has lived many lives as a political scientist, radical activist, and multi-media artist. She completed a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science at the University of Toronto and McMaster University respectively. She works as a community organizer on drug and education policy reform, civil and labor rights, prison abolition, police brutality,and post-colonial feminist liberation. Her writing has appeared in: Bust Magazine, Make/Shift Magazine, her self-published anthology Colored Girls, and in the first issue of Red Umbrella Project’s literary journal, Pros(e).
March 5, 2013
"can I ask why you’d prefer legalization and regulation versus decriminalization with elimination of..."
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I personally (SW6) prefer the idea of L&R because decriminalizing physical sex servers doesn’t address issues with contracted labor sex workers or making sure biz owners/managers are required to treat employees like, well, employees. It also doesn’t address the issue of legal recourse in the event of violence against physical sex workers by law enforcement.
Anyone else have an opinion they’d like to share? We’d love for this to become a larger discussion!
(via sexworkerproblems)
I think part of saying that sex work is real work means that we need to figure out real ways for its sectors to be regulated in a way that protects people in the sex trades from violence but also supports their labor rights and ability to make a living. I think often when I hear decrim talked about its like this solve-all thing - take away the bad laws! And whoafuck, there are so many bad laws. But they have to be replaced with something, and I think this is a gradual (aka frustrating as fuck) process.
That said, I’m not super convinced that it is worth debating the merits of decriminalization vs legalization (even though that’s totally what I’m doing here) because ultimately those are abstract concepts until you’re talking about specific policies and how they affect specific populations in specific working environments.
QUESTION FOR THE ZINESTERS: EPUB, PDF?
Informal survey: if you make your zine available digitally, what format do you publish in? I’ve seen a lot of PDF zines but very few EPUB files and I’m wondering why that is.
(By the way, how many of you would digitize your zine if you could? I’m thinking I might offer a zine digitizing/uploading service for folks who don’t have a scanner.)
UPDATE: Thank you for liking this post if you’ve done so already, but I’d much rather have your feedback instead. So: epub, yea or nay?
Yes, epub!
