The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and exacerbates the existing insecurities of sex workers. This paper asks: What are sex workers’ everyday experie
In such encounters, the fairy acted as the sole embodiment of queerness, the figures with whom normal (straight) men could have sex – just as they might with female sex workers. Fairies affirmed, rather than threatened, the heteromasculinity of straight men by embodying its opposite. The no...
The default way to give permission for someone to message you in private. ELI5: Explain Like I’m 5. When you want a simple, short explanation of something. Epic: An adjective to describe anything huge or amazing. Facepalm: Reaction when someone says or does something incredibly stupid. ...
There is plenty to do in our efforts to advocate for the oppressed and underserved populations we serve as social workers, social work supervisors, and not-for-profit managers. Knowing when “It is” or “Is not” the job of your supervisee to do something you ask of them is greatly depe...
The “The Factory Workers of Hara” movie is a 55mn documentary about a struggle over control of a garment factory in Nakhon Pathom. The film consists of interviews with workers directly involved with the conflict. Finally women workers at Hara Jeans occupied their factory and ran it as a ...
"We always have near-constant fear that our platform can be removed at any second," Alexa said. Tech giants may be quick to blame FOSTA-SESTA legislation as the reason for their puritanical guidelines. FOSTA-SESTA is anti-sex trafficking in theory, but has hurt sex workers and others in...
). Brothel, street-based and private sex workers all got the green light to open up, along with shops, restaurants, movie theatres, cafes and gyms, proving that as far as the New Zealand (NZ) government was concerned, the sex industry was a business with workers, employers and customers ...
Social prescribing is a concept that emerged in the UK more than a decade ago[1]. It aims to connect patients to different types of community support, including social events, fitness classes, and social services. Trained professionals, often called link workers or community connections, work wit...
Further, in addition to numerous accounts of struggles to trust future romantic partners, one victim of IBSA reported that she had trouble trusting co-workers at her new job, as her former partner had been a co-worker at her previous job (Bates, 2017). While trust has far reaching ...
work and community and only artificially discouraged, for the sake of artistic entrepreneurism and ‘signature control,’ in the art market world.’ Rosler also notes ‘some disquiet’ when thinking of past collective efforts such as communist workers’ councils or car design ‘quality circles.’[...