The Slixa site launched an essay contest in December on the subject of the SESTA-FOSTA laws. They were offering $10,000 in prize money for both the authors and their charities of choice. The winners were recently announced, and I was very happy to see that Lucy Khan had taken the top spot with her essay: Against FOSTA/SESTA: One Canary’s Cry From Inside the Coal Mine.
I’ve been lucky enough to session with Lucy multiple times in the past. She has always impressed me as a highly intelligent and insightful person, so it’s great to see her pick up this award and money for SWOP-LA. In fact LA pro-domme’s managed to score two out of the three top spots, with Grace Marie picking up the second place prize. Meghan Peterson, a researcher and sex worker rights advocate, stopped an LA/pro-domme sweep by picking up the third spot. I think all three essays are really well written and well worth reading, so check them all out here.
Given it’s Chinese New Year, this seems an appropriate image of Mistress Lucy to feature. She’s in the center, flanked by Daddy An Li (left) and Mistress Damiana Chi (right). It was taken from a Chinese New Year Play Party hosted at The Chi Temple. The submissive is appropriately attired, given it’s the Chinese year of the brown pig.
In recent years, the Danish TV production company who made ‘The Killing’ turned their attention to Danish politics and produced a series called Borgen. I don’t know if it was aired in the USA, so if not, let me say the series was about a Danish female prime minister’s adventures in government.
One particular episode dealt with the dilemmas which come with proposals for legislation to protect sex workers, how one group wanted to ban all paid sex work to protect the people who do it and how the voice of the sex worker on the Expert Panel was sidelined and ignored by the liberal experts.
The Prime Minister, played by the wonderful Sidse Barbett Knudsen, sided with the sex worker.
It was very clever and insightful television.
Put Borgen into Google to find out more …
Interesting. I’ll have to look out for it. Not sure if it’s available for streaming anywhere in the US, but I’m sure I can track it down somewhere online. Sounds like something I’d enjoy.
The original version of the Killing is another show I need to watch. I saw the first two series of the US remake, mainly because it was set in Seattle, so it was fun to spot all the location and references I knew. Not bad, but I suspect the originals might be better (as they often are).
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The originals are always better than the often bloated american remakes, that often manage to remain extremely parochial.
Remember Ian Richardson in the original House of Cards (“Me? I’m a whip; a mere functionairy … I put about some stick … keeping the troops in line.”) by the BBC and compare with Kevin Spacey in the remake. Watch and compare both Series …
You’ll find there is no real comparison. There never was. Why? “Well … I couldn’t possibly comment, could I?”
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