Jeffrey Epstein Is Not Your Nordic Model Success Story
Jeffrey Epstein has become shorthand for sex trafficking—and, predictably, ammunition for advocates who argue that criminalizing the purchase of sex is the answer to exploitation. But Epstein wasn’t b...
14 Aug 9min
Samuel Little Is Not Your End Demand Success Story
America has produced an alarming number of serial killers who discovered the same thing: if you wanted to murder women repeatedly, sex workers were among the least protected victims you could choose. ...
8 Aug 8min
Robert Pickton and the Women Vancouver Failed
There is a photograph that appears almost every time Robert Pickton's name is mentioned. It is not a photograph of the women he murdered.
31 Jul 8min
The Long Island Serial Killer Is Not Your End Demand Success Story
Let's clear something up before it calcifies into conventional wisdom: the Long Island serial killer case is not evidence that the Nordic Model works. It is not a signal. It is not a case study. It is...
20 Jul 10min
FIFA, Heat Domes, Public Money, and the Global Sport of Looking Away.
Because if we have learned anything from the annual Super Bowl trafficking panic ritual, it is that major sporting events are never just major sporting events. They become convenient stages for moral ...
5 Jul 10min
What I learned about Men, Money and Survival Thrgh the Lens of Sex Work
I started standing up for myself in business about my respect and self-worth. For that, I lost friends who felt like I was acting “better” than them. But I continued walking in my truth no matter the ...
4 Jul 10min
The Trans Historian Who Refused Erasure: Miss Major and the Politics of Survival
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is one of those people. She has spent decades surviving systems that were never designed to allow Black trans women to live safely - much less to lead movements, shape politic...
30 Jun 14min
