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Gamma Films Institutes Production Code of Conduct for Performers, Crew

Gamma Films Group has announced that it has issued a code of conduct in an effort to protect its performers and crew from any form of harassment or misconduct before, during or after a studio’s film production.

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Chicago May Become Largest City in U.S. to Try Universal Basic Income

With automation threatening jobs and polarizing workers, Alderman Ameya Pawar is promoting a pilot program to give $500 a month to 1,000 Chicago families.

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The Scanner: Sex workers returned to SF streets after Backpage.com shut down

The government shutdown of Backpage.com this year sought to curtail the type of sex-for-sale classified ads that made the company infamous. Months later, though, the closure has prompted an increase in sex trafficking on San Francisco streets. Reported crimes related to pimping and sex trafficking have more than tripled in 2018 — with 67 through August, up from 21 during the same period last year, according to police. Meanwhile, officers have made more arrests than previous years as much of the activity had been hidden online, said David Stevenson, a city police spokesman. Violence against both sex workers and people soliciting sex is a concerning trend as well, said Sgt.

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CA Labor Commissioner Rules for Nadya Nabakova Against LA Direct | AVN

In a decision released today by the California Labor Commissioner, adult actress Nadya Nabakova (who has since renamed herself Bunny Colby) has prevailed in her claims against talent agency Direct Models Inc. (often referred to as "LA Direct" or "LA Direct Models") and its owner, Derek Hay, regarding Nabakova's complaints of being forced to work under unsafe conditions while under contract to the agency, of having her earnings improperly withheld by the agency, and of being improperly charged for items by the agency which it did not have the legal right to collect.

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A 'Jane Doe' plaintiff has named Facebook as a defendant in a lawsuit which claims the social media platform permits "sex traffickers unfiltered access to the most vulnerable members of our society" and is therefor liable for the crimes committed by traffickers who use the site to target victims like her. Is it the beginning of a trend?

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Trans Studies in Higher Education Syllabus

Trans* Studies in Higher Education Syllabus Syllabus Origins Lately, I have become conscious of just how often I and other trans* people are asked by cisgender people some iteration of the following question: “how can I do better/learn more about trans* issues in higher education?” This questi...

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Fancy Feast on Being a Professionally Naked Fat Person

Burlesque performer and sex educator Fancy Feast chats with Tristan about sex, bodies, and being a professionally naked fat person in New York.

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Seven Police Officers Charged with Running Eight NY Brothels

Let’s take a closer look at how the media covered this story. 7 NY police officers have been arrested for running 8 NY brothels. They used women from Central America and yet the medi…

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Commentary: Cultural Appropriation Is, In Fact, Indefensible

Recently, the New York Times published an essay defending cultural appropriation as necessary engagement. But that's a simplistic, misguided way of looking at appropriation, which causes real harm.

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People Want To Hear That I'm Happy I Was Adopted. It's Not That Simple.

Growing up, being Korean and being adopted were things I loved and hated in equal measure.

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Terry Crews - The Resurrection of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" & Redefining Masculinity | The Daily Show

Terry Crews recounts how his show "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" was rescued from cancellation and discusses his deeply personal contribution to the Me Too movement. W...

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Actor Terry Crews: I was sexually assaulted by Hollywood executive

Brooklyn Nine-Nine star says he did not speak out after unnamed ‘high-level’ executive groped his genitals for fear of being ostracised or jailed

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Michael Kimmel, #MeTooSociology, and Feminist Betrayal of Sex Workers In Academia

I’ve made an entire alter ego out of the things people hate most about women: bodily autonomy and self-determination in the form of sex work and body modifications, among other things. The recent a…

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Sex workers took over Reddit’s AMA and it was amazing

As sex workers continue to fight FOSTA/SESTA, over 60 sex workers/advocates took to Reddit’s AMA to answer Qs about sex work and decriminalization

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U.K. Pushing New FOSTA Copycat Law to Force Sex Workers Offline | AVN

Apparently inspired the passage of new U.S. laws supposed to curtain online “sex trafficking,” the British parliament is looking to advance laws banning “prostitution” from the internet.

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Wi-Fi Operators Not Liable for Pirating Users, German Court Rules

Germany's highest court last week upheld legislation that offers Wi-Fi operators immunity from acts carried out by third-party users.

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Saving Face

He was the perfect client. Well dressed and freshly showered, he brought me a small gift in which my precious dollar bills were discreetly enclosed, and our session finished before I was even fully…