sex work

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/10/2023
  

  Kelsy Burke's "Pornography Wars" Examines America's Conflicted Relationship to Smut

  by Laura Kipnis

  The sociologist is less concerned with the substance of pornography than with the multiple roles it holds in Americans' discussions of sex, labor, gender, and morality. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  6/27/2022
  

  Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?

  by Olivia Snow

  A moral panic over sex trafficking has justified the development of an extensive electronic infrastructure of surveillance and punishment of sex workers. These are the tools other women can expect to have used against them if they seek (or seek to learn about) abortions or associate online with others who do.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/22/2022
  

  Racist Policing Has Roots in Controlling Sex Work

  by Sarah A. Seo

  Anne Gray Fischer's book shows that police policy toward sexuality in public space changed in ways that made Black women's public lives subject to increased control and that entrenched the discretion of police to stop people for suspected minor offenses that is associated with "broken windows" policing today. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/23/2021
  

  The Dehumanizing Logic of All the ‘Happy Ending’ Jokes

  by Anne Anlin Cheng

  "The figure of the eroticized-yet-degraded Asian woman can be readily found in movies and onstage. One of the most visibly racist, sexist, and inhuman tropes to emerge out of Western imperial history, this woman nonetheless hardly registers in the public consciousness as someone who has suffered discrimination.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/19/2021
  

  Rage and Retribution

  The bungled police statements after the Atlanta shootings reflect the way that moral panics about sexuality have historically worked to make Asian immigrant women the targets, rather than the protectees, of law enforcement. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/19/2021
  

  The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings

  Emerging facts about the Atlanta shootings last week suggests that the incident reflects the sexualized portrayal of Asian women that grew out of colonialism and American military involvement in Asia.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/2020
  

  Excluding Those in the Sex Industry from Covid-19 Relief is a Mistake

  by Leah LaGrone

  Government needs to back off making moral value judgments shaped by Christian values when it comes to women’s work, and instead to focus on the harsh economic reality facing millions of women. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  2/15/19
  

  Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future

  Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.