New French sex worker union founded

Just to make sure people know about last week’s events in Paris, which included the founding of a new sex worker union. It’s easiest for me to post links to the abundant media coverage, many of which have photos. I hope this is okay.

• Original press release
• Slate France: strong leadership of men in the movement was commented on explicitly
• Photos
• France 5: Droit et prostitution: faut-il mieux encadrer le “plus vieux métier du monde”?
• The Union’s new webpage Vive le STRASS
• More French press: Le Figaro [1], [2], M6 “Paris: les prostituées dans la rue !”, “Pute pride!”, “Travailleurs du sexe, syndiqués et fiers de l’être”, ENSEMBLE, ELLES SE SONT LEVEES, “Prostitutas de Europa, uníos (por los derechos como trabajadoras)”, SIDA Info Service, “Les Putes ne sont pas soumises”, “Marche des fiertés des travailleurs du sexe à Paris”.

(Posted by Laura; edited for formatting by Melissa, who apologizes her French is so slow)

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Did you know women were involved in technology in the 1800’s? Ada Lovelace passed away in 1852, and was very instrumental in Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. Most of us here on BnG and within the Sex Worker community in general are Female Identified, so I think it’s important that we recognize our amazingness!

As part of Ada Lovelace Day, I want to take a minute to share some of the amazing things Sex Workers have done with technology.

• Some Sex Workers have day jobs in technology!
• Sex Work has turned safer by our use of technology, for example our screening process has become much safer by use of email, cell phones, etc.
• We’ve been adopting technology before the mainstream, think twitter, myspace, facebook, etc..
• We are building blogs, websites, forums and discussion lists for our organizing.
• Some of us are building our own Video’s, making movies, podcasts, etc.
• We are finding new creative uses for twitter, etc.
• One of our own has helped found their own Web 2.0 technology Company!
• We have our very own Film and Art festival, where our own self-made videos have a chance to be seen by the world at large!

I’m sure there are many many things I’m forgetting, so please chime in below with links, stories and thoughts on the cool amazing things we are all doing! I haven’t given any names, or links to people, because of privacy concerns for those present.

Cool Blocked Call Software

I know many of us automatically reject blocked calls, but there are some situations when we want to know who is calling us from a blocked number, right?  Some of my escort friends have started using a free program called TrapCall that supposedly works with any cell phone. And, you can also block specific phone numbers for certain undesirables who are harrasing you, etc.   They jut get a message that the phone number has been disconnected.   There are basic free features and paid features, I’m not sure which is which, but I thought it was definitely worth passing along.  Of course, it’s never a good idea to rely solely on technology to protect yourself – nothing takes the place of common sense and stringent personal security measures like verification!

African Sex Workers Speak Up

At the beginning of Februrary, I blogged here about the first sex worker-organized conference happening in Africa. The conference was attended by more than 150 sex workers, who produced a press statement and declaration about the status of sex workers and human rights in Africa.

Here’s a the beginning of the press release: 

When our governments are campaigning for our votes they say “vote for us and we will deliver.” We have voted but our governments have not delivered. We try to raise our voices about human rights violations that we face on a daily basis, no one listens. Once we have voted they forget us. From our government we need law reform and the decriminalisation of sex work so that we have the spaces to access our rights. We demand rights and not rescue.

As 153 sex workers from 10 African countries: South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia and Nigeria. Today we demand our governments to honour their agreement that every citizen has human rights, and give us the rights that we are entitled to as human beings. Your citizens are speaking, you have a duty to listen and act.

You can download the whole press release/declaration, as well as a PDF of the January 2009 report Human Rights are for Everyone: Why Sex Work should be decriminalised in South Africa from the International Women’s Health Coalition blog, Akimbo. The documents are well worth reading, if only because their energy and anger is intense and awesome.

Houston Prostitution Bust

(CNN) — Police in Houston, Texas, say they have busted a prostitution ring that may involve more than 1,500 clients, including professional athletes, doctors and lawyers.

Investigators were scouring computers files and credit card records on Monday, trying to verify a large client list that could ignite scandals throughout the city, CNN affiliate station KHOU reported.

Police arrested alleged ringleaders Deborah Turbiville and her husband, Charlie, as part of a two-year investigation, the affiliate reported.
Don’t Miss

* KHOU: Police bust pricey call-girl ring

Turbiville called herself the “Heidi Fleiss of Houston,” referring to a woman who was dubbed the “Hollywood Madam” for providing call girls to famous and wealthy clients, police said.

Turbiville, who reportedly recruited prostitutes through the online site Craigslist, was in court Monday on a charge of promotion of prostitution.

Investigators said the women met their clients in upscale hotels and charged about $350 an hour, the affiliate reported.

Clients also met prostitutes in a luxurious three-bedroom apartment, police told the affiliat

Third-Gendering

Posted on Behalf of Robin from SWOP-NYC

To my fellow cis sex workers rights activists:

Men, women, and transgendered people.  Male, female, and trans.  I’m sure most of you recognize these phrases as they are used widely across the sex workers rights movement.  I was at the December 17th march in D.C., and I heard them used there.  I’ve also seen them in press releases and blogs, and even dear friends of mine have used them.  This is a call for it to stop, or at least an attempt at such a call.  Many people call this sort of thing “third-gendering”; it implies that trans women and trans men are not “real” women and men, but are instead a third gender.  People who identify as genderqueer or outside the gender binary certainly do exist, and those identifications should be respected too, but there are also many, many trans men and trans women who identify as men and women, full stop.  To symbolically shunt all of them off to a third gender can come across as marginalizing, and tokenizing, and really faux-inclusive at best.  I understand that many people in this movement do want to be truly respectful in their language and their work of everyone within our community, and so I am writing this to encourage people to move more fully in that direction.

What should you say if you wish to explicitly include trans people in your statements?  It is true that in our society, many people will assume that the phrase “men and women” means “cis men and cis women” unless trans people are explicitly included.  That is unfortunate, but there are ways to work around it without third-gendering people who do not identify as a third gender.  Let’s say you are talking about women, and want to be absolutely clear that you are including trans women in your statement.  You can say, “women, cis and trans.” Or “cis women and trans women.”  Or, “women, including trans women.”  Or even “female-identified people.”  What you should not say, is “women and trans” or “women and trans women,” as though trans women are never included in the category “women.”  Because “women” should always include women who happen to be trans.

Language is fundamental to giving trans people the same respect that cis people take for granted.  It signals how the speaker sees trans people, and can shape the views of both speaker and audience.  The sex workers rights movement needs to respect people’s gender identities–whether cis or trans–and this means that everyone who identifies as a woman is a woman, and everyone who identifies as a man is a man.

I write as a trans ally whose long-term trans partner is bothered by this language, and as someone with trans loved ones and friends for whom I care very much.

Thank you for taking the time to read and consider this message.

It’s wrong to pay for sex–NYC Debate April 21

http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=41

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Moderator: John Donvan

Speaking for the motion: Melissa Farley, Catharine A. MacKinnon and Wendy Shalit

Speaking against the motion: Sydney Barrows, Tyler Cowen and Lionel Tiger

Caspary Auditorium Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue New York City, NY 10065 (66th Street & York Avenue)
tickets $40

There’s also an online poll – VOTE NOW!

Tyler Cowen blogs here

This is a replay of
http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events.php?event=EVT0171
November 11, 2008
It’s wrong to pay for sex
Speakers for the motion:
Professor Raymond Tallis Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester
Joan Smith Feminist novelist, critic and columnist.
Jeremy O’Grady Editor-in-Chief of The Week magazine and co-founder of Intelligence Squared.

Speakers against the motion:
Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon Reader in Psychology and Social Policy, Birkbeck College.
Professor Germaine Greer Australian author and academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminists of the 20th Century.
Rod Liddle Associate Editor of The Spectator, columnist for The Sunday Times and former Editor of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.

In London, the motion was soundly defeated.

Social Justice and Peace Conference/Exhibition May 1

Below is information I received about a social justice and peace conference/exhibition.  Since we promote justice and peace for sex workers,  it would be great if sex workers’ rights activists could attend and participate.  One of the suggested topics is sex trafficking, so perhaps somebody could put together a presentation about sex workers’ rights approaches to human trafficking and how sex workers are being incacerated and subject to human rights abuses by law enforcement under the guise of fighting sex trafficking.  However, there are a variety of topics we can present about.  The topic ideas are very open.  The event will take place at the University of Texas-Pan American, which is located in the Rio Grande Valley on the U.S./Mexico border.  Here is the information I received: 

SOCIAL JUSTICE and PEACE CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION Conceptualizing In/Justice: Images/Voices of Resistance MAY 1st, 2009 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, POETRY & MUSIC Submissions due APRIL 1st, 2009 The UTPA Department of Criminal Justice is sponsoring an event to promote social justice and peace. The goal of this conference/exhibition is to engage the students, the community and the faculty in a dialogue about social problems that affect our lives locally, regionally, and globally. Not only do we want to raise social consciousness, we want to provide an avenue for discussing solutions to these problems. The purpose of this conference is to provide a safe space for dialogue and protest. Activists and campus organizations are invited to share their struggles, as well as their visions for a better future, including solutions we can implement as individuals. The Conference/Exhibition makes a call for artwork, poetry, music, photo-documentaries, documentaries, posters, presentations and other alternative forms of artistic expression. Please submit an abstract of 150 words or less. Provide the title, contact information, and affiliation if any. Please email to justiceconference@gmail.com or resendiz@utpa.edu Conference Date: May 1st, 2009 Deadline for Submissions: April 1st, 2009 Suggested Topics: Human Rights, Civil Rights, Immigration Rights and Violations, Labor Rights Inequalities, Discrimination, Racism, Classism, Sexism, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues Dehumanization, Exploitation, Torture, Sex Crimes and Sex Trafficking Environmental Justice and Pollution, Animal Rights Health, Education, Elderly Issues, Disabilities Economic Justice, Poverty, Class struggles, Protest Movements Imperialism, War, War on Drugs, Violation of Peace Treaties Religious Tolerance, Spirituality, Empowerment Peace and Legal Discourse, Criminal Justice and Peace-Making Criminology Border Issues, Militarization of the Border Prisons and Detention Centers Other Related Topics Welcome!

Chicagoans Offer Their Opinions On The Tom Dart Craigslist Lawsuit

Prostitution scandal? In Chicago? We’re on top of it. The RedLightDistrictChicago crew hit the streets to talk to Chicagoans about what they really think about Tom Dart’s lawsuit against Craigslist.

Upcoming “Sex Slavery” Conference in Macon

Amber Rhea alerted me to this upcoming conference which does not include sex worker voices. She wondered if SWOP-East had anything planned. We do not.

Her post about the conference and related issues highlights a problem I often feel — that one can end up drowing in a wave of ignorance from the public. Sex work activism often feels like beating your head against the wall. I admire those incredible long-term activists who retain their passion. Allies (like Amber), offer help and support but hit burnout too.

Every city, every state has its ongoing issues. Is it that I’m more aware of them now, or is sex work more often being thrust to the front of public policy? Either way, we’re all caught between wanting to do something and being able to do something. And sometimes there is no intersection.

Sheriff sues Craigslist as ‘largest source’ of prostitution

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced today that his office has sued Craigslist and has asked a federal judge to ban the Internet company from posting its “erotic services” section, which the sheriff said is a clearing house for prostitution.

Dart also asked the judge to force the online classifieds company to reimburse the sheriff’s department for the approximately $100,000 it has spent pursuing its Craigslist investigation over the past year.

Full story

Early response from SWOP Chicago:

SWOP-Chicago does not condone the actions of the Cook County sheriff towards Craigslist. These actions are meant to persecute adults engaging in consensual sexual acts for money and goods of value. Creating criminal records for sex workers bars them from other forms of employment outside of sex work and may limit their ability to seek housing and other services.

This law suit is also a tremendous waste of tax payer resources during a time of severe economic turmoil in the state of Illinois and the country as a whole. The state of Illinois is currently facing a $9 billion dollar (and growing) deficit. Based on an analysis by Julie Pearl in 1987 and adjusted for inflation, in 2007 alone, the state spent over $14.6 million dollars on prostitution arrests. These figures do not take into account the cost of supporting jailed sex workers and the cost to human services agencies who serve these populations and the children of these individuals.

The resources involved in this law suit and in prostitution stings are much better used elsewhere. In 2007, Chicago reported 443 known murders, yet there were only 372 arrests state-wide. The money and resources would be better spent providing health and human services to sex workers and other citizens of the state of Illinois who should receive services, rather than be prosecuted for lack of other viable options.

Suing Craigslist to end the marketing of erotic services will not address the issues. If recent FBI stings are any indication, very few, if any, children and minors involved in forcible, coerced, or trafficked prostitution are found by Craigslist targeting and crack downs. Ending Craigslist’s erotic services section will do nothing to stop the exploitation or forced, coerced, or trafficked people, and will divert valuable time and money away from the effort.

The Cook County sheriff is doing no one a service, not the tax payers, not the sex workers targeted. We at SWOP-Chicago strongly urge residents of Illinois to protest this egregious waste of their taxes and public resources and to consider what is truly best for the health and welfare of individuals who advertise erotic services on Craigslist.

SWOP Chicago is encouraging supporters to contact the Sheriff’s office:

Cook County Sheriff’s Office
50 W. Washington
Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 603-6444
sheriff@cookcountysheriff.org

Resources:

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_69.html

[2] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_08_il.html

Original Article- Sheriff Tom Dart Sues Craigslist

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he’s busted enough prostitutes who were pimped out on Craigslist to know the popular on-line classified site is the country’s largest whorehouse.

Sex Traffic at Institute of Contemporary Arts in central London

SEX TRAFFIC at London’s ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts

11 March 2009 – 1900 / 7pm

The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority be to give migrant women in the sex industry more control over their own lives, or to stop the traffic?

Speakers: Laura María Agustín, author of Sex at the Margins and a former educator working with expatriate sex workers; Georgina Perry, service manager for Open Doors, an NHS initiative which deliver outreach and clinical support to sex workers in east London; Catherine Stephens, sex worker; Jon Birch, inspector, Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit. Chair: Libby Brooks, deputy Comment editor, The Guardian.

Nash Room. Book here £10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members

The ICA is located on The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. How to get there.

Box Office: 020 7930 3647 Switchboard: 020 7930 0493

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is a registered charity in England No 236848 and a Limited Company registered in England No 444351. Registered offices as above. VAT No 853 7217 17

Media Advisory San Francisco Premiere Film Screening of ³H a p p y E n d i n g s?²

Media Advisory

For Immediate Release: March 3, 2009
Maxine Doogan c-ph 415-265-3302

San Francisco Premiere Film Screening of ³H a p p y E n d i n g s?²

Stop the war on the massage parlors workers!

Watch the drama unfold in Asian massage parlors as out and proud gay Mayor David Cicilline of the City of Providence in Rhode Island pushes to close the prostitution “loophole”. Follow “Heather”, a Korean immigrant, over two years as she manages a massage parlor while trying to become an American citizen. Rhode Island.

What: 80-minute movie by documentaries Tara Hurley and Nick Marcoux who turned their cameras on the only state where indoor prostitution is legal for over 25 years since five prostitutes sued the state of Rhode Island for selective prosecution, and prostitution laws were removed. Panel discussion
to follow. http://www.happyendingsdoc.com/

When: 5:00 pm- 7:30 pm Wednesday March 11th, 2009

Where: San Francisco Public Main Library 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Latino/Hispanic Community Room B

Who: Hosted by Erotic Service Providers Union With Special Speaker Dr.
Jeff Klausner, STD Prevention and Control Section *

Why: To educate ourselves about the on going struggle massage parlor
workers face and how this oppression isn¹t unique to San Francisco; that unionization is the means to stop the systematic attack on informal workers rights.

Visuals: Poster in jpg format

*For identification purposes only, does not imply policy or endorsement of the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

REVIEW Of NEW YORK PREMIERE HERE:
http://theplothole.com/index.php/latest-reviews/40-latest-reviews/156-review
-happy-endings

Indian Sex Workers Fight Penalization

Yesterday I launched a new blog, Akimbo, for the International Women’s Health Coalition, where I’m now working as their program officer for online campaigns. We’ve got a post today from Meena Seshu of India-based sex worker organization SANGRAM.

After months of speculation and stress, sex workers rights advocates have reason to celebrate this International Sex Workers Rights Day.

Last week, the Cabinet failed to approve an amendment to India’s Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Bill that would have further stigmatized sex workers by criminalizing the purchase of sexual services.

Read the rest of Meena’s post here.

John Schools, Farley, Actions vs. words

Melissa Farley recently posted her thoughts on an LA Times article about John School.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/comments_blog/2009/02/sex-school.html

I have posted on the john school topic in the LA Times Blog but am not sure I will clear moderation with thoughts on Farley.  So I am bringing them here.

Melissa Farley writes in italics  ”

“Thank you for asking if the crime of buying a human being for sex should be a misdemeanor. I think that buying sex should be a felony”,

That would make every man that hires a sex worker a felon.  Even from a logistical standpoint this would be an astonishing strain on the legal system that would divert enormous resources away from crimes that tend to be much more destructive such as rape, murder, ……   Great so prisons would be filled with men that are convicted felons just for hiring a prostitute.  Not for raping one, not for murdering one, not for,,,,,,,
So we incarcerate them as felons.  Brilliant.

although those who are bought by johns in prostitution should not be arrested.

Well, at the most basic level I agree with Melissa on this.  The sex worker shouldn’t be arrested.  Although Melissa needs to recognize her words and actions don’t equal each other.  When the time came that she could have supported and done something to keep women from being arrested via Proposition K,  Melissa was an outspoken opponent of decriminalizing the women she purports to want decrminialized.

It seems much more important than the women in prostitution she professes expertise of and advocacy for, she felt the women should remain the majority of arrests, persecuted by the legal system at a much greater rate then the men she wishes to be felons.   She voted and strongly advocated for the status quo in which women are a huge majority of the arrests in order to pursue her vision of making men felons for hiring a sex worker.   Not for raping one, not for assaulting one, but just for hiring one.  She was outspoken in her support of a system that makes the very women she claims to be an expert in, the very women that she claims advocacy for, to continue to suffer.  All so that she can have her vision of punishing men.  Not to mention, if it were decriminalized, her allied projects like John School would not have johns anymore and business for prohibitionists would suffer.

Also, while I tend to dislike splitting hairs on individual words.   Men buying women, buying is a very limited context situation.  Buying implies ownership.  Not hiring for a service.  Buying essentially is equal to buying a slave.  Sorry Melissa but despite the rhetoric, a huge majority of women in prostitution aren’t slaves.  They may have, in many cases, very poor working conditions but slavery is an extreme that should not be implied to mean all.  It is a huge disservice to conflate the slave with the woman hired for a sexual service.   Hired for a sexual service, perhaps even rented, but bought,,,, bought is a very poor choice of words that represents an enormous and unrealistic conflation.

Melissa Farley states “They should be offered housing, drug treatment, and other services.”

Well, they should be offered those anyway, if needed.  Everyone should.  Oops, sorry my socialistic tendencies are coming out in this.   But Melissa’s activism has demonstrated repeatedly she believes these services should be provided after the prostitute has been arrested/rescued, and under TVPRA only by limited providers.  Answers to this kind of issue for the women that are in the sex industry because of housing, drug treatment and other service related needs, those need to be addressed proactively not reactionary.   Getting arrested is not the right avenue to insert these services into the sex workers life.

No disrespect intended to anyone from the west coast or more progressive cities, but,  there is often a misunderstanding by people like Melissa, who have grown up in an academic setting and live in progressive west coast cities.  Services in many areas of the country are not easily accessed.  They take a long time to access and it is going to take a lot more than a few projects like SAGE in progressive US cities.  For the woman, that has immediate needs such as housing, chemical dependency, hunger, these issues need financial answers that are immediate.  Often that answer may have to come in the form of sex work.   Perhaps not a great option in many cases but then again neither is homelessness.

Perhaps a better solution than Melissa’s would be to take the money that would be spent on incarcerating all the men for felonies that Melissa wishes to be incarcerated, thus housed, fed, medical care, and instead offer those to the women being advocated for.  Given that Melissa is implying, and in many cases this is an accurate representation of needs, but given that she is implying this need into the equation, if the needs are met, many of the women that are in the sex industry that shouldn’t be.  Well, they wouldn’t be.

But once again, Melissa’s actions speak volumes to the fact she is prioritizing the importance of her macro level radical feminist viewpoint over the lives of the people she is the expert of and representing.

Melissa Farley states “Sweden put this abolitiionist law into effect in 2000. Since then, trafficking into Sweden has plummeted. It’s a law that works.”

Melissa again fails to match word with action.  She couches her statements in the framework that she is all about helping the women in prostitution and supporting their decriminalization.  Melissa could have advocated for compromise.  Proposition K would have done just that.   Proposition K would not have taken away prosecution of those who rape prostitutes, those who assault them, those who traffick them, those who have sex with anyone not consenting, those who are underage.  The same laws that protect them now would still have been in force.  The only change is that those hiring a woman strictly for sex, without the crimes referenced in the previous sentence would not have faced prosecution.  Neither would the prostitute.   But protecting the women wasn’t priority for Melissa.  Persecuting the men was.  And if the women suffer still at a hugely disproportiate rate then the men.  Well, sucks to be the women.

Then Melissa advocates for john schools for what she believes should be a felony.  Why would there be diversionary one day program sentencing for what she argues should be a felony?   Except that she and her allies are stakeholders in the current system and profit from it.

Melissa’s statement that the Swedish model is an abolitionist law.  It is not.  It isn’t abolishing anything and isn’t going to.  Prohibtionist yes, abolitionist no.  And where is the Melissa Farley activism on the Swedish model?  She politics for TVPRA and Bush Administration policies which are not even remotely close to Sweden’s model.

She needs men criminalized to continue her position as an expert, to continue the court mandated financial cow of court imposed john schools at 600 dollars per client.   Melissa is fine with the status quo in which the prostitutes are the huge majority that suffer not only to the oppression and crimes she discusses but also at the whim of the justice system and legal system that are supposed to be rescuing them.   Melissa is concerned about her speaking events, her position as an expert, advancing her theoretical feminist worldview over pragmatism.  But then again, it isn’t her suffering, it is the women she studies that are.

Melissa states “Since then, trafficking into Sweden has plummeted. It’s a law that works.”

Well that’s great Melissa.  Except for a few things.  One, trafficking and prostitution aren’t the same thing.  There are prostitutes trafficked as there are many others, migrant workers are another, there isn’t trafficking in every scenario of prostitution.   From personal experience being trafficked was not the greatest concern of being coerced into and to remain in prostitution many years ago.  The trafficking itself doesn’t change much.   One can be raped in their own home and suffer as much as being brought over a state or country line.

One does not have to be trafficked to have suffered in prostitution.  Nor should being trafficked be any type of vector to determine level of suffering.   Of course Melissa has never been trafficked, she has likely never been in prostitution, probably not ever in need of the services she discusses,   It’ s easy to have out of context perceptions when one has no real experience with any of the issues.

Sex industry cultures: Photos on facebook

escort ads London

I finally joined facebook and have started a photo album called Sex Industry. This is a public link, you don’t have to be a member of facebook to see the photos. Sometimes I worry that cultural interests, rather than overtly, campaigning, political ones are not so interesting to people here, but then I think that I must be wrong. And anyway, cultural work is just another kind of politics.

Here are a few other cultural landmarks in the past month or so:

Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? which I published on Susie Bright’s Journal first.

Will a famous prostitute be allowed to rest beside Calvin in Geneva?

I’m a girlfriend, they’re my friends

I am also partial to satire when it comes to miserable topics. Here’s a marvellous piece on Norway’s new dreadful law

If anyone has photos to add to my collection, let me know!

Best, Laura