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DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

Prostitution

SPECIAL FEATURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL

Written by ANA GONI-LESSAN Posted August 18, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: abuse, addiction, AIDS, Boston, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., feature, features, fentanyl, fight, Healthcare, Heroin, long read, longform, longreads, Lowell, Lynn, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Prostitution

A POTENTIALLY BIG STEP FOR SEX WORK SAFETY

Written by JULES MARSH Posted February 1, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

While current law ensures that courts must go to great lengths to avoid the arraignment of sexually exploited children, loopholes remain through which young people in the sex trade can still be prosecuted.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Kay Khan, Mass Politics, Massachusetts Sex Worker Ally Network, Prostitution, sex workers, SWOP-Boston, trafficking

MORE BOOS FOR BAKER

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted May 3, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The other reason I generally avoid the subject is because I’m transgender, and I already get enough threats for my reporting.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Council, Charlie Baker, Department of Correction, discrimination, Governor Baker, HB2, incarceration, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Legislature, North Carolina, prison, Prostitution, rape, transgender

LA PLAYS ITSELF: ON THE COMEDIC ETHNOGRAPHY OF “TANGERINE”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted July 17, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

And what emerges is a document of the Hollywood that Hollywood declines to show us. Tangerine becomes a critique of surfaces themselves: The LA we know from movies and TV, revealed to be as false as the idea that anatomy dictates gender.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: cisgender, donut time, Hollywood, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Los Angeles, Prostitution, Sin-Dee Rella, tangerine, transgender

LETTERS: A RESPONSE TO “THE WORLD’S OLDEST OBSESSION”

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 11, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A letter from the group Demand Abolition in response to last week's DigBoston feature story

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, demand abolition, End Demand, Jamie J. Hagen, Prostitution, response letter

SPECIAL FEATURE: BOSTON’S STRANGE AND PROBLEMATIC NEW APPROACH TO CURBING PROSTITUTION (AND ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)

Written by DIG INTERN Posted November 6, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The conflation of sex work and sex trafficking is common. It’s also troubling.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 1975, 1976, abolition, Barney Frank, Boston, Boston Globe, Combat Zone, criminalization, Dan Mulhern, En dDemand, gender studies, Human Rights Watch, John school, Kade Crockford, Lina Nealon, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Legistlature, My Life My Choice, Northeastern University, Prostitution, Red Umbrella Project, Suffolk Country District Attorney, Swanee Hunt, The Lancet

BOSTON’S STRANGE AND PROBLEMATIC NEW APPROACH TO CURBING PROSTITUTION (AND ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)

Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Posted November 6, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The conflation of sex work and sex trafficking is common. It’s also troubling.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: 1975, 1976, abolition, Audacia Ray, Barney Frank, Boston, Boston Globe, City of Boston, Combat Zone, criminalization, Dan Mulhern, End Demand, geneder studies, Human Rights Watch, Interagency Human Trafficking Policy Task Force, Jamie J. Hagen, John school, Kade Crockford, Lina Nealon, Martha Coakley, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts Legislature, Melinda Chateauvert, My Life My Choice, Northeastern University, Prostitution, Red Umbrella Project, Suffolk Country District Attorney, Swanee Hunt, The Lancet

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