May 2012
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Sex Worker Activists Targeted By Arson Attack →
The fearless New Orleans organization Women With A Vision, a group that’s done considerable work for sex worker rights, suffered an arson attack at the end of last week. Their outreach resources—condoms, educational materials, HIV rapid test kits, and anatomical models to demonstrate self-care—were destroyed. This act was one of domestic terrorism; it’s on par with attacks on abortion clinics, and...
GET INSIDE.
Terebesi, who lived alone in the small ranch-style house at 91 Dogwood Drive,...
– This reporter has a talent for the personality profile combined with tragic police-action-gone-bad reporting.
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yourfavoriteindierockband:
The Jesus Lizard: You once challenged a dog to a fight. (MT)
Please help Tricia Lockwood's husband's eyes
michaelrobbinspoet:
Elegant Choice, the husband of my dear friend and Amazing Poet Patricia Lockwood, needs your help. He’s going blind & needs an operation. They need money. Please donate what you can. Here’s Tricia’s blog post about it, with instructions about how to make a donation. Please reblog this if you care about poems or eyes or husbands or doing good things in the world
I am very excited to have this custom tone of Dorothy Parker to alert me to chelseagsummers’ texts. if she is your friend too you should download it and use it for her.
violating the TOS by always putting coffee in here.
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some idiot 21-y-o texted Kat “I want to make you my all-day popsicle!” I just showed her Cord Jefferson’s Twitter avatar after reading that Awl thing about white music stolen by black people (because I was like, “Cord Jefferson’s black?”) and she said “I would be his all-day popsicle.”
Oh it’s also funny that I met a guy on assignment for GOOD...
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RIP MCA
My first night stripping mostly blurs together, though I see a few distinct moments like clear spots in a fogged mirror: What the DJ said to me, the songs he played for me, that first lapdance, and watching the first stripper who made my jaw drop in awe.
She came out on stage in a fishnet bodysuit, black fingerless gloves, and black leather halfsoles like the kind modern dancers wear. Her hair...