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Sex Workers Are Being Detained and Deported At The US Border. Ad Sites Are Concerned It’s Facial Recognition Software
In an exclusive piece for Cashmere Magazine, Jake Hall investigates the rising claims of detainment at the US border by sex workers, the potential links to advertising sites, AI, and facial recognition software, and what this means for traveling sex workers.
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Sex Work Isn’t Sex Ed: Why We Need Comprehensive, Fact-Backed, Sexual Education
Cashmere contributor S. Nicole Lane explores the advocacy around comprehensive sex ed. Spearheaded by sex workers and activist groups, out of necessity, why are they calling for better sexual education, and what is their role in it?
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Sitting Down With SWAP: An Inside Look At Sex Worker Activism and Advocacy
Cashmere contributor Mira Miller sat down with Jelena Vermillion of SWAP to discuss the need for decriminalization, sex work, and advocacy in a world where sex work is stigmatized and criminalized.
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As A Transgender Man and Sex Worker, My Existence Is Political
“As a transgender sex worker, my body cannot help but be political. I must continually be an activist for my own right to exist.”
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Blackness In Porn is Fetishized and Commodified. Can Performers Like Myself Change That?
“Race and sex in American society have shaped a worldview that extended to our industry. We are exoticized, vilified, underpaid, and partitioned as others in an already sexualized and charged circumstance, our bodies prized for their beauty and power yet divorced from our humanity.”
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Asian Men Are Marginalized In Porn. Gay Male Performers Are Changing the Narrative
“I find it to be very problematic in that these people have these preconceived notions of how Asian men will act, be it submissive, bottoms, very demure,” says Cody Seiya.
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From centerfolds to cellphones: The rise of the male thirst trap
“For those making the content, thirst traps can either be a way of expressing sexuality, a form of exhibitionism, or a way to seek validation.”
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‘Colonize me, baby’: Exploring the extremely taboo and highly criticized fetish of race play
“To politicize race play by suggesting it’s a way to take control of a system which, by design, you can’t have power over, is absurd.”
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Academia has historically excluded sex workers. A new generation of sex work researchers is changing that
“A lot of academics, especially those without lived experience, are writing about sex work,” says Jones. “They’re building careers on that work, but they’re not actually citing sex workers.”
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Teachers with a past in sex work on the side are often fired. Will they ever be able to claim employment discrimination?
“What about the legality of firing a teacher on the grounds of sex work? Can a teacher be legally ousted on reputation alone? Could this be employment discrimination?”
