sex workers

Gregory Mitchell is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. He joins us to discuss his new book, “Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking.”

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels including “A Thousand Acres,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the “Last Hundred Years Trilogy.” Her latest, “A Dangerous Business,” tells the remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex-worker sleuths who track down the culprit behind a series of disappearances.

The Burlington, Vermont City Council met Monday evening. Among the items on the agenda was a report from the city’s Ad Hoc committee on redistricting.

Burlington voters are being asked to approve an amendment to the City Charter that would delete a phrase related to sex workers.

Over 100 sex workers came to the capitol in Albany on Tuesday to lobby for two bills that they say would help keep them safe and end some of stigma…

In Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, Alison Bass weaves the true stories of sex workers with the latest research on prostitution into a gripping…

Advocates for New York sex workers are coming to Albany to push for legislation that would ban condoms as evidence in prostitution cases, arguing the…