Working Girls: Or; What, Exactly, Is Dangerous About Sex Work?
A friend of mine recently shared with me that she is thinking about registering with an escort service to make some extra money. We had a long conversation about what […]
Tag Archives: Workers’ Rights
Teacher/Cop: Complicating the School-to-Prison Pipeline
“The classroom shares a genealogy with the technology of the prison.” – Dylan Rodriguez The Chicago Teachers’ Strike represented both a galvanizing and fracturing shift in the U.S. political discourse, […]
Day 4: Points from the Chicago Teachers’ Strike Unlikely to be Addressed in the Tribune
The Teachers’ Strike in Chicago has been on since Monday, with some talk today amongst union representatives and mainstream media that there may be a contract agreement reached as soon […]
Beyond Coming Out: Political Engagement Across Queer Communities
A friend of mine, who is queer and Latino, and I were talking this past weekend about the choice of coming out. Though he founded the GSA at his predominately […]
Radical Alliances: Police as Working People
One of my uncles, who is currently unemployed, worked as a police officer and security guard for most of my young life. He dropped out of high school to join […]
Education, Not Charity: Or; Are More Teachers What We Really Need?
“The struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings.” – New York Collective of Radical Educators I recently visited a job fair organized for young and aspiring […]
Burning Out: Demanding a Sustainable Teaching Model
A close friend of mine recently quit her job with NYC Teaching Fellows after sticking with the program for three full years. Teaching Fellows, which is a national organization, places […]
A Timeline of the Modern Sex Worker Movement from $pread Magazine
In reference to a previous post on sex positivity, I wanted to put up this link to an incredible tool from the late $pread Magazine. In its six or so […]
Sex Positivity and a Queer Commitment to Sex Worker Rights
While I was away for my sophomore year of college, a close friend of mine back at home started working as a dancer at a local strip bar. He was […]
Happy Labor Day!
In honor of the Labor Movement, the rapid de-unionizing of labor occurring on a global scale, and the mainstream LGBT movement’s faltering commitment to workers’ rights and economic justice, I […]
