APNSW ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT 24 JULY This is what I’m working on for six months with Kay Thi in Yangon, as first envisaged. Versi dalam bahasa Indonesia di bawah [Indonesian version underneath] APNSW [the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers] … Continue reading
I’m relaunching this blog in 2017 as I’m also starting a freelance writer page, Alison Murray writer! https://www.facebook.com/alymurraywriter/
I’m looking for work in blog posts, academic work, English to Indonesian translation and vice versa, editing, proofreading, dramaturgy, indexing, ghostwriting and etc. – see my page and LinkedIn profile.
Updates are that the APNSW work I was talking about in 2013 was published as http://www.nswp.org/…/SUSO%20Asia%20Pacific%20Report_Oct2014
More regular exciting posts to follow….
We are looking for Rousje, lost from Jakarta since 1994… more info on the FaceBook group, Finding Rousje Foundation
Rousje in West Papua with Dani men, mid-1980s
Some reflections on daze and nites of the 1980s, in bars around a notorious South Jakarta bus terminal – I was just a baby in the game. First published in Jakarta Jakarta weekly local rag and then in a collection, The adventures of Pirate M and Doctor Tuff, Canberra qew-u publications 1994….
Backlist Below a bibliography of most of my published work, or at least disseminated work, in the case of the tattoo studies. Topics: Queer geography, urban sexual subcultures, shifting marginality, functional conflict, community anarchy, sex work politics, Indonesia, PNG, tattoos … Continue reading
August 6,
it’s a beautiful day in Sydney [and warmer than London, does that seem right?], meanwhile tsunami-broken nuclear reactors are now pissing radiation into the Pacific off the coast of Japan…
There used to be peace marches on this day in memory of the unparalleled destruction and death caused by an atom bomb at the end of the Pacific War 68 years ago. We seem to have forgotten already – does it matter?
Femme on the streets, butch in the sheets [original publication 1995, this version 2013 – see ‘backlist’] Being both a lesbian and a sex worker involves conflicts and convergences, and acting differently in different situations. Sex work as a … Continue reading
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