So this week, something cool happened, and this something cool was the revelation that Renegade Evolution is in the Top 30 Feminist Blogs, according to statistics.
I consider Ren a good friend, so a congratulations of a personal nature is in order. Yay! Squee! And so on.
But what makes this particular inclusion so special – other [...]
February 5, 2009
Categories: Good News, I Like To Read, The F-Word, Trafficking . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 4 Comments
Today, December 17th, is a big day. I should have written about this earlier, of course, but the past week has been a bad week for updates, and I’ve totally dropped the ball. I’m a jerk.
December 17, 2008
Categories: America, Friends & Neighbours, The F-Word, Trafficking . Tags: sex-work . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 2 Comments
Some of the outgoing president’s decisions are disturbing to the extreme. Check this out:
…The administration also wants to deny funding to organizations that help victims of sex trafficking if they also advocate legalized consensual prostitution. These and others can be found on ProPublica.org’s list of midnight regulations.
Awesome. Once again, slavery and sex-work are being defined [...]
November 22, 2008
Categories: America, Bad News, Dirty Politics, Trafficking . Tags: sex-work . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 1 Comment
I just love it when, in the comments to an essay about a brutally subjugated group, some guy shows up and starts screeching “halp! Halp! I’m being oppressed!” Not only that, but he feels the need to point out that he and those like him are, in fact, being oppressed more. Their oppression is bigger [...]
September 10, 2008
Categories: Idiots on Parade, Trafficking . Tags: wankers . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 18 Comments
Please read this New Yorker piece. It’s very informative, and the details it highlights are tragic, heroic, devastating, dirty. You might cry. I kind of did. I’ve read and listened to so many of these stories over the years, but they still make me blubber.
One of the things to remember about human trafficking, and I’ve [...]
August 7, 2008
Categories: Trafficking . Tags: crime . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 2 Comments
This article by E. Benjamin Skinner is interesting.
It makes a good point – estimates say that 90% of slavery has little or nothing to do with pro[stit]ution. Often, we tend to forget that. When I talk about a distant relative of mine who was trafficked, people automatically assume that the relative is a “she” and [...]
April 7, 2008
Categories: Trafficking . Tags: slavery, Trafficking . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 4 Comments
There’s nothing like good ol’ stereotypes of women from the former USSR to help me get over my writer’s block. Just like that.
Check out my collection of links to fabulous pictures of Soviet actresses.
Thanks to Neeka for the hat-tip.
January 30, 2008
Categories: Kultur, Nashi, The F-Word, Trafficking, Writers . Tags: beauty, fashion, former ussr, style, ussr, washington post . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: Comments Off
A woman living next door to my aunt here in Kiev was attacked last month. She and her rommate were private masseurs: good-looking, surgically altered, and in the habit of charging large fees, if their rent was any indication. I don’t know if they advertised sex-work – but they have gently implied to my (conservative) [...]
September 18, 2007
Categories: The F-Word, Trafficking, Ukraine . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 20 Comments
His story was not covered in American media, but I found a reference to him on the IMDB message boards for Lilya 4-Ever, one of those films about trafficking that makes you want to cut your heart out with a rusty spoon. The German-language Wikipedia article on the jerk is here. The son of Holocaust [...]
May 30, 2007
Categories: Bad News, Trafficking . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 8 Comments
Sexual Terrorism – no, not the funny kind.
A big thank you to the founder of this project – the incomparable E S.
January 26, 2007
Categories: Trafficking, Work . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 1 Comment
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