Category: Activism

Come see me at Exxxotica NJ!

Exxxotica Expo returns for its 12th year and the New Jersey Expo center will be filled with glitter and the newest self-fuck devices. It’s a magical weekend when the least sexy state turns up the heat and airs out its junk – like sexily, not like in a yeasty way. I would like to say it feels like I was covering the first show for my college paper yesterday, but I can’t fathom that it’s been over a decade. Youth sure did prove more fleeting than I anticipated. You know what else is fleeting? TICKETS! Get yours before they sell out!

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Decriminalizing Sex Work Webinar – GET INVOLVED

Tuesday, June 25 – 3 PM (ET) / Noon (PT)

REGISTER HERE bit.ly/DecrimSexWorkWebinar

Speakers:

Presented by the Sex Worker Rights Working Group of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Queer Caucus, this webinar will include a primer on the sex work, an explanation of the current and proposed policies that impact them, and the NLG’s current and potential positions on these policies. While it’s targeted towards NLG members, this webinar is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn more about sex worker rights!

At last year’s #Law4thePeople Convention, NLG members voted to pass a resolution condemning the anti-sex worker legislation SESTA/FOSTA. During the process, we learned that many NLG members had questions about sex worker rights and impending legislation. Now that New York and Washington, DC have introduced legislation to decriminalize sex work, it’s crucial that NLG members across the country have a basic understanding of the issue and learn how to get involved.

SHARE:www.nlg.org/webinar-decriminalizing-sex-work-what-why-and-how-to-get-involved

Panel – Patriarchy in the Algorithms – Sexuality and Censorship Online

I have the honor of being a part of panel discussion on a topic very important to me and many other sex workers – Sexuality and Censorship Online.  The title of the panel discussion is:

Patriarchy in the Algorithms – Sexuality and Censorship Online
We’ll be discussing how sexism, misogyny, and racism are built into the biases of our digital world, and how they affect our conversations around sexuality.  
WHERE:
WHEN: Thursday August 16th
TIME: Arrive at 6.30pm for 7.00pm start
Tickets can be purchased HERE

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Housing Emergency Fundraiser for a Disabled Trans Woman of Color

The New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance (NJRUA) is raising funds for a trans worker of color in New Jersey who has recently lost her leg from infection and is facing economic hardship. We are trying to raise funds to save her home and provide a secure place for her to continue to recover. NJRUA has raised 25% of their goal and while we have saved her from eviction she still need assistance with a large debt.  I hope that everyone can donate or share the fundraiser.

 

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N’jaila Rhee Coming to a TV Near You!

UnSlut: A Documentary Film is this 2016 winner in PBS’s To The Contrary All About Women & Girls Film Festival.  The film explores modern society’s treatment of women with a focus on sexual bullying aka “Slut Shaming”.  Using interviews with survivors, family members, professors, authors , doctors and volunteers dissect and define the phenomenon of the “slut”.

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Twitter Has Made It Impossible to Ignore the Reality of Sex Work

ea8843aa135b22194ec27410e02f565bLux Alptraum wrote this great piece on how Twitter has impacted the visibility of Sex Workers and how that affects us.  The article also Charlotte Shane and Anlina Sheng of the Winnipeg Working Group for Sex Workers’ Rights .   You can read the article

HERE

 

BLACK TRANS SEX WORKER LIVES MATTER

black-trans-SW-lives-matterWhen I wrote about the Daniel Holtzclaw case for TitsandSass  I was happy the piece was generally well received, but sadly there have been ignorant people who felt that including instances where Black trans women were violated somehow detracted from the article. Those people are assholes.

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Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women and the Myth of Police Protection

Daniel Holtzclaw is hopefully going to spend the rest of his natural life in jail after targeting low-income black women. happybirthdayrapistpieceofshitIf you listen to my podcast After Dark or follow me on twitter, you’ve heard about the case of serial rapist former police Oklahoma City officer Daniel Holtzclaw.  I had the honor of expressing some of the many complicated feelings stirred up by this trial, its coverage and what it means for Black sex workers. Please head over to TitsandSass to read it :

http://titsandsass.com/daniel-holtzclaw-black-women-and-the-myth-of-police-protection/

 

New (ish) Interviews with ME!

11076236_10202626860872659_7303463830415808914_nSo its been awhile. I’ve come down with a very bad case of “Everything I Write is Poops” but working on that to bring you guy more delicious content.  If you have missed me I wanted to give you a chance to listen or read to some of my latest interviews.

I had the honor of being interviewed by the Asian American Writers Workshop’s  Ester Wang, talking about everything from race to sex work and my love of New York City.

If you missed my February appearance on the awesome Sex Love Joy podcast hosted by Anaín Bjorkquist  now is the time to get some more N’jaila in your ear.
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Black Women, Sex Work & Stigma #TjhishaAndAngelia

When I was interviewed for an article about Black sex workers last week,  it wasn’t the story of an actress and her white boyfriend that was on my mind. It was the murders of  and .

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“the bodies of Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Ball, 18 were spotted on the side of a road around 1 a.m. yesterday. The bodies were reportedly bound with zip ties, naked and on top of one another. Read more at EBONY

[pullquote] Donate to the families of#TjhishaAndAngelia HERE [/pullquote]It wasn’t just the ghastly way they were discovered or the brutal way they were murdered it the reaction of civvies and the news media at large. Several news sources published their mug shots, identified them only as strippers in that demeaning tone that stopped just short of ‘they asked for it’. Continue reading “Black Women, Sex Work & Stigma #TjhishaAndAngelia”

Student Activists Mourn Michael Brown With #HandsUpWalkOut

Students around the country staged a #HandsUpWalkOut on the day Michael Brown was laid to rest. Brown would have started his freshman year at a local trade college on Aug 9  had he not been shot six times by police officer Darren Wilson. Brown was autopsied thrice before his funeral.

Activists from Freedom Side, Dream Defenders, and Hands Up United coordinated the event to show solidarity with the Brown family and others slain by police. According to a #HandsUpWalkOut action toolkit available on HandsUpUnited.org, the walkouts are not protests or rallies, but “an event to mourn the loss of community members.” Organizers supplied a list of suggested post-walkout activities, such as reading names of the deceased, asking participants to voice their feelings and inquire about the emotional well-being of fellow students, and singing of “freedom songs.”

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Sex, Sex Work and the Web #TtW14

I had the distinct honor of being a panelist at this year’s Theorizing the Web conference which too place in Brooklyn NY April 25& 26th. My panel “Sex Work and the Web, was moderated by the amazing Melissa Gira Grant, author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work  . My fellow panelists included Emma Caterine of Red Umbrella Project , adult film actress and writer Stoya,  and CEO and owner of Hookonline Hawk Kinkaid. You can watch the panel here :

Our panel dealt with sex workers and clients adapting to new digital technology and the hardships or progress gained by moving into a digital space.  We took questions both from the live audience and from twitter.  
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I’m Speaking at Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit!

badge-horizI should have posted about this a million years ago but yes, I’m speaking at the Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit in Washington, DC. Continue reading “I’m Speaking at Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit!”

Blogger Came for our Wallets, Tumblr Comes for Our Voices

tumblr_mq5di0eI8U1qjma8no1_400Go to the search/ track bar, type in “Sex Positive”, recoil in horror as you realize that Tumblr has decided that Sex Positivity needs to be censored.  A system that hides discussions about sex being innately neither good or bad but a part of human nature isn’t serving the greater good. Continue reading “Blogger Came for our Wallets, Tumblr Comes for Our Voices”

Get Your Politics off My Tits and Outta My Vag!

Wednesday marked the start of Black History Month. This is the one month that is set aside to uplift Americans who are part of the African Diaspora. Americans that disproportionately lack comprehensive health care and as a result are more likely to die from lack of screening for diseases.  This is why I was more than shocked to find out that Susan G Komen Foundation  picked yesterday to announce they they will cut funds to Planned Parenthood an organization that gave almost 170,000 free breast exams to women in lower income areas of the US, women who would otherwise have never been screened.

GO TEAM BLASIAN! Meet Kimi Kang

This is big you guys! Earlier this month John and I had a special guest on the podcast, for those of you that missed the live broadcast of The Alter Negro Sho’s interview with the very interesting Kimi Kang of TEAM BLASIAN you can now get a sexy earful now.

LISTEN HERE

PETA PORN???

from Peta.org

Oh PETA, you are the Khardsians of non profit organizations. What won’t you do for attention? You’ve already proven you aren’t above, fat-shaming, racism,  antisemitism and time tested sexism to get people to care about animals.

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Dear Internet People- I Am Not Your Fetish Object

Dear People on the Internet,

I am on websites like Adultfriendfinder and Fetlife to explore my sexuality and fetishes- not to be your fetish object.  I know this might be a confusing concept for some of you out there, but women of color have their kinks and turn-ons as well.  While some women might be open to race play many are not.  I’m the latter.  Continue reading “Dear Internet People- I Am Not Your Fetish Object”

Let’s Come Together, Team BLASIAN!

Blasians: We come in all shapes , size, colors and creeds

When I spoke at Banana 2 in February, someone asked what do you do when you can’t find  a community of like minded people. I told her that you had to build it because no one will do it for you – and when Hyphen quotes you saying something you bet your ass that you better follow through.

And so I did! CHECK IT OUT

NEW FORUM

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