Sascha

Also, grad students and contingent academics who are in the sex industry (a higher number than some would expect) can’t be out or they will get fired from their teaching jobs.

Boston urgently needs someone like him

thank you Siri 😍

The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It An anti-porn backlash is in full swing. The Supreme Court might supercharge it.

You should read this article by Sascha Cohen for @gqmagazine.bsky.social not just because I’m quoted in it, but because it’s a great piece about the anti-porn backlash we’re currently in, and the perilous road ahead for the concept of free speech in America www.gq.com/story/suprem...

The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It An anti-porn backlash is in full swing. The Supreme Court might supercharge it.

"The migration away from legitimate sites is already impacting performers. Some who saw their income plummet after age-verification laws took effect have turned to in-person sex work, which poses greater risks than porn because it remains criminalized almost everywhere in the US."

When people like me say chatGPT is coming for our jobs, this is what we mean. I used to write almost exclusively book lists for a living. And guess what? I always wrote about actual, real books.

a legitimately good thing Apple could do with AI right now would be to focus on encrypted and on-device features and pitch itself as the company that keeps your private bot conversations private

Unironically, urban nightlife is more interesting when the mafia runs it, especially in a place like Boston, the land of bland!

Boston's "nightlife czar" should stop with the desperate little concerts and just bring back the mob, the only counterbalance to this city's sleepy puritanism

Well, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? 

Okay it’s true that any attack on porn is an attack on LGBTQ+ people and sex ed but also porn is good and should not be attacked.

Oh, you want to bring America back to the 1950s? The decade with 45 percent income tax for top earners and 1/3 labor union density?

Jewish Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Khalil Deportation As the Trump administration weaponizes accusations of antisemitism to justify repression, the Jewish left is rising up.

New from me: I talk with the Jewish coalition that is forming to fight back against Trump's authoritarian attack on democratic rights, deportations, and repression of anti-war activists. @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org and others.
truthout.org/articles/jew...

Feel like the roaring twenties are ending a little bit early this time around

This author thinks porn never involves “women’s power or women’s pleasure.” She is leaving out a lot of popular genres.

As @reproutopia.bsky.social noted recently during her keynote at Duke’s Feminist Theory Workshop, there were many great feminists writing and thinking at the same time as Dworkin. Why not give them a “return” instead?

Battlefield Ecstasies | The Point Magazine Is it twisted that her first name means “manhood”? Andrea Dworkin, the legendary feminist, said she believed in men’s “humanity, against all the evidence.” And I believe her.

And here’s Sophie offering the only reading of Dworkin’s return that you should read if you care about liberation and real left politics, not just (g)lib girlboss ideological nonsense: thepointmag.com/politics/bat...

You can really tell who came of age watching Gen X queer film* and who did not**

* Me
** You poor saps

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

BSWAC’s Statement On Cambridge/Watertown Brothel Case Local Sex Workers and Allies Respond to Cambridge/Watertown Brothel Case  For Immediate Release: March 27, 2025  Contact: bostonswac@gmail.com  We the Boston Sex Workers and A…

We are concerned about the assumptions being made in recent coverage of the Cambridge/Watertown brothel case.

Please see below our statement in response to the naming of alleged clients of the brothel network, including Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner.

bswac.org/2025/03/27/b...

The Rise and Fall of the American Breastaurant ‘I neither lament nor celebrate the fall of the breastaurant,’ writes Sascha Cohen, who worked at a Santa Monica Hooters while attending college.

I wrote about my experience as a Hooters waitress here: www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-and...

The psychologist determines the women worked at Hooters "to make more money." You don't say.

Insulting to "psychologically study" waitresses like zoo animals and assume that sexual objectification makes all women feel "worthless." Skill issue.

If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights.

With 51 votes (and counting), Senate Republicans have passed their measure to effectively legalize debanking, after pretending to care about the issue to gin up their base.

It's up to a handful of House members now to stop it.

Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.

Is this how we win or what

An opposition party incapable of doing anything about the strip mining of earned benefits for workers besides silently watching

need to queen out with sylvester stallone's muppet girlie fan club from his episode of the muppet show

“This is how we fight fascism” and it’s sitting politely in matching pink outfits.