Currently in the state of New York, police and prosecutors use condoms as evidence of prostitution-related offenses, including the murky crime of “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.” Even when they don’t use condoms as evidence to aid them in making arrests and convictions, in the process of doing their stop-and-frisks […]
Author: Audacia Ray
Audacia Ray is the director of the Red Umbrella Project, where she hosts a monthly live sex worker storytelling series in New York, which is documented as a weekly podcast, available for free on iTunes. She also leads storytelling and media training workshops and provides support for those who wish to tell their stories. Audacia is a former sex worker, the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration, and has been blogging about sexuality and culture since 2004. Additionally, Audacia is the Program Officer for Online Communications and Campaigns at the International Women’s Health Coalition, has consulted on information and communications technologies for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, and was an executive editor at the Utne Reader award-winning $pread magazine for three years. She is based in Brooklyn.
To Catch a Killer, Give Amnesty to Sex Workers
In the week leading up to December 17, 2010–the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers— the remains of four women, all of whom were involved with sex work, were discovered on a beach in Long Island. Since the end of March, the remains of six more bodies have been found in the same area. The […]