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you, appearing
one day this will all stop being fun. Jack Daniel's and cigarettes and Poppy Z Brite novels, sitting in the window watching the stars, reading Latin by candlelight, cooking exquisite banquets whilst reading feminist theory, grunge music and smudgy eyeliner, lace-up boots and lacy skirts, ash and incense and delicate hipbones. one day this will disappear, and we won't know who we are anymore.
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”When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it’s not because they envy the rich. It’s because they understand that when I get tax breaks I don’t need and the country can’t afford, it either adds to the deficit, or somebody else has to make up the difference - like a senior on a fixed income; or a student trying to get through school; or a family trying to make ends meet. That’s not right. Americans know it’s not right. They know that this generation’s success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other, and to their country’s future, and they know our way of life will only endure if we feel that same sense of shared responsibility.” — President Barack Obama.
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While minor offences such as soliciting are still pursued, the police shifted their focus to protecting sex workers and building relationships of trust with them.
In 2006, Merseyside police was the first and so far only force in the country to declare crimes against sex workers as “hate crime”.
The results have been dramatic. In the five years before the new way of working began to take effect in 2007, there was just one conviction for a series of assaults against sex workers.
Now the overall conviction rate for crimes against sex workers is 84%, with a 67% conviction rate for rape. The national average conviction rate for rape is just 6.5%.
Last year in Liverpool there were 10 convictions for rape and several more men have been charged and are awaiting trial in 2011, some for multiple rapes as well as other violent offences.
Detective Superintendent Tim Keelan said: “These women are very vulnerable, and our priority is to protect them. We are seeing interest from a number of other police forces in our model and we have set up a Unity team – the only joint police and CPS team in the country – to help prosecute offenders.”
The Guardian: Merseyside police: ‘Sex workers are vulnerable. We want to protect them’ (via sexworkerproblems)
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This is my Pepper, she does some pretty weird things.
The photographer is my girlfriend so she deserves the credit
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Clara Bow alone in a wax museum. Original caption on reverse:
Nancy Worthington (Clara Bow), left alone in the midst of curious wax figures while Robert de Bellecontre (Charles Rogers) has gone in an effort to find an exit from the museum in which they are locked, is filled with joy on seeing Robert return.
Written in pencil:
GET YOUR MAN. 1927. Dorothy Arzner
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Gustave Doré, photographed by Felix Nadar, Paris 1855-1859.
That is one snazzy scarf.
He was so utterly dapper.
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