The weather on the east coast is messing with us again. It snowed a few days ago but was nearly 60 yesterday.

So anyone know what the fuck is going on with Univision? Heard there were massive layoffs in other parts of the company and just had a quick flick at the GMG jobs page because I’m a nosy bastard and what used to be a long page of listing only a couple weeks back is now blank. Maybe they just filled all the slots but…

So I forgot to tell y’all a story that happened a few weeks ago!

If this is the most salacious they can find, go Meghan.

I just drove for nine hours straight, but I don’t think that’s solely to blame for how confusing that Megan Markle story was.

Thanks Diana. I could not handle sitting through all of this testimony, let alone center myself enough to write about it immediately afterwards.

I’m sorry, but I feel like I need to be a voice of reason here. The sex work industry is complex, and not monolithic. Whereas some sex workers are more empowered and have the resources to be self-employed (which often, but not always coincides with class/race-based privilege), others are incredibly vulnerable to…

Just in general people primarily speak English in Nigeria because there are so many cultures and languages there that English is the common ground. The only people who don’t speak English at all are the ones who live far out in the villages, but that’s where these girls were from, I believe. #fuckcolonialism

It’s the American University of Nigeria. In addition to an education, you get language immersion. The hope being that when you’re done you’ll also speak English (or the language of whoever set it up, I think there was a French Lycée in NYC where you could only speak French for example that Jodie Foster attended.)

I don’t know, except for the public-ness of it, this sounds pretty ideal. I’d take this over 16 hours of labor any day.

It really seems like Jez’s position is that all of this is forgivable because it’s going to hurt sex workers who actively choose this occupation

I was once the victim of a Backpage phone number typo— a sex worker posted my number instead of hers, and I received awful phone calls and texts all day until I figured out what was going on.

I know you didn’t ask me, but I’ll answer anyway : ) The information provided is actually not at all the general context of the action. FOSTA and SESTA are legislation- they are not the law, they haven’t even gone to conference committee. FOSTA and SESTA are completely irrelevant to what is happening to Backpage.

Yep, I live in the Netherlands where: 1) prostitution is legal and there are a number of social services available to sex workers; and 2) the Netherlands is one of the world’s top sex trafficking destination countries and sex trafficking is a huge problem here. The percentage of Dutch women in sex work is the minority…

I totally agree. It’s been going on for years with many known victims coming forward throughout that time. It’s known to facilitate sex trafficking. It’s really one of the most terrible things that can happen to a person.

Good.

No need to send snow. I’m willing to send you the warmth you need not to have anymore, though. If only weather worked like that.

I think that sometimes longer days (more sunlight) can do weird things to the brain. Its really hard to find anything about it though.

Thanks for the information, that’s a big load off my mind. I don’t have big expectations for my book, but at least I know what to do now.

My mom is in town for the weekend and I’m going a little crazy. I warned my husband about her before she came — she’s a nice person, but bossy and judgy, tells you what to do with your life, what to do with your clothes, your hair, your food, what you should eat, weigh, etc. He wanted to take her to experience our…