there’s this guy on lbo who spend 99% of the time pulling stuff out of his ass and flinging it around so everyone else can enjoy the stench. which is to say, he’s almost always writing from the cuff, asking questions that would have been answered had he actually bothered to read the post...

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and what to abolish it. Agustin call...

As Dwayne Monroe said: Which demonstrates, once again, the accuracy of Zizek’s six year old insight into the real danger posed by the Bush administration’s modification of executive branch SOP. No doubt, I’ve mentioned this before. But I forgive myself. Our brief lives consist most...

seriously. this really is related. as i mentioned in previous post, i couldn’t be arsed to travel my lazy ass up the stairs to go get another book, so i trundled postone’s book to the porch with me and my cuppajoe. i flip open the book to where i’d last been, which was toward the [...

a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This was in the Philippines. A ra...

grrr. while reading around, trying to understand the contours of the feminist blowout in bloglandia brownfemipower mentioned, i happened across a couple of posts and comments talking about some earlier blowout as to why sean bell was or was not a feminist issue. i didn’t read every post and co...

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on D...

yeah, revolutionary gardening ought to fix this! via Lou Proyect: Now, before I go any further, I want to take a moment to speak directly to the people of Iraq. You are a great nation, rooted in the cradle of civilization. You are joined together by enduring accomplishments, and a history that conne...

For bitch to be sexist, it would have to be uttered in a conversation in which there is a power differential. Sexism equals privilege plus power, but you would know that if you were really about challenging the patriarchy. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/radical-feminism.html Well, if you ac...

I almost called this edition, “NOw, where was I?” because it feels like it’s been forever. And it sorta has. R got sick with the flu last week, then I got it Friday and was sick all weekend and Monday. Dragged my ass to work Tuesday since, with this economy, better keep on your toe...