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	<description>I&#039;m an atheist who has been a full time pornographer and sex worker for almost 10 years. I&#039;m also a former &#34;sex-positive feminist&#34; who tired of trying to shoehorn my life into a useless ideology like a pair of ill-fitting high heels. I oppose the feminist doctrine that women are inherently feeble victims, brainwashed by &#34;the patriarchy,&#34; and in need of someone to protect and guide us. I operate SWAAY.org, the only American sex workers&#039; rights project aimed solely at public outreach and education. My politics are extremely socially permissive, but mixed on fiscal matters, and I don&#039;t identify with any one political party or label. My philosophy is informed primarily by Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse: &#34;I want you to be nice until it&#039;s time to not be nice.&#34;</description>
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		<title>My favorite cinematic sex worker on the masculine end of the scale: Gigolo Joe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I still say that Jasmine in Independence Day reigns supreme when it comes to a positive, realistic portrayal of a sex worker in a mainstream movie, I wanted to do some gender balancing and write about another favorite sex worker character.  I asked my Twitter followers if they could guess my favorite man ho, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/my-favorite-cinematic-sex-worker-on-the-masculine-end-of-the-scale-gigolo-joe/</link>
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		<title>Quote: Richard Berkowitz on living it up while being the worst of both worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Browsing through the most gorgeous ties I'd ever seen I realized what was bothering me.  Growing up I was taught that the worst thing you could be if you were a man was a queer, and the worst thing you could be if you were a woman was a whore.  Then came my moment of epiphany: It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/quote-richard-berkowitz-on-living-it-up-while-being-the-worst-of-both-worlds/</link>
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		<title>Recommended watching for the long weekend: favorite political talks from recent nerd events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not a hardcore nerd the way some of my wonderful friends are, so what I like with geek events are discussions of social implications of technologies, surveillance, privacy, anonymity, and fighting state power and censorship.  Most of these recommended videos are from the 28th Chaos Communication Congress, which concluded a couple of weeks ago.  These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/recommended-watching-for-the-long-weekend-favorite-political-talks-from-recent-nerd-events/</link>
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		<title>Quote: Emi Koyama on the simplistic language and thinking employed by anti-trafficking crusaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA["...SCTNow, along with similar anti-trafficking concerns, uses a simplistic language of good and evil in its discussions of trafficking.  In this way, its selling of the anti-trafficking movement closely mirrors the selling of the 'War on Terror' in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.  Instead of untangling the resentment against American imperialism built up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/quote-emi-koyama-on-the-simplistic-language-and-thinking-employed-by-the-anti-trafficking-crusaders/</link>
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		<title>Highlights from my bizarre FBI file, and how to FOIA your own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point last year, I sent off Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to a number of government agencies.  I'd actually pretty much forgotten about it after getting form letters back from a number of agencies saying they had nothing on me - or at least, nothing they felt like releasing.  Then, I got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/highlights-from-my-bizarre-fbi-file-and-how-to-foia-your-own/</link>
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		<title>Google Seattle protest wrap-up, which way forward?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a busy month, but I wanted to post a photo from last week's Google protest in Seattle.  The protest was just myself and @ishfery, a sex worker I'd previously only met on Twitter.  (And, ornery cunt that I am, I'd wondered if she was real, since "in a post-Alexa world," I've come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/google-seattle-protest-wrap-up-which-way-forward/</link>
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		<title>Fleshed-out Google campaign page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent almost the entire last 5 days researching the groups that Google is now funding.  Please see the campaign page and read something I've put a lot of time info! Why are sex workers' rights supporters upset with Google? Google announced last week that they are making the largest-ever corporate donation to "ending modern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/fleshed-out-google-campaign-page/</link>
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		<title>Google is now funding anti-sex worker organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I saw a tweet from a nerd that I knew was going to mean bad news: Google is donating $11.5 million to "fight modern slavery".  And what have we learned that politically-loaded phrase usually means?  It means "fighting to imprison and further criminalize vulnerable sex workers in the developing world." Looks like the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/google-is-now-funding-anti-sex-worker-organizations/</link>
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		<title>Quote: Laura Agustín on the reasons some sex workers lie to researchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA["On the subject of ethics in sex work research, we usually think of the insensitivity and careerism of researchers whose interest is in obtaining information they will take credit for.  I want to point to another problematic angle: the issue of whether those being researched are honest with researchers.  Why, after all, should people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/quote-laura-agustin-on-the-reasons-some-sex-workers-lie-to-researchers/</link>
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		<title>Guest post on Sex Worker Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don't already follow the funny/sad/personal Sex Worker Problems blog, I will agan remind you to do so.  There was a post with a question about how to explain gaps in your resume if you move out of sex work and apply for straight jobs, and I shared my two cents about one could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/guest-post-on-sex-worker-problems/</link>
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