Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Note: Rather unusually, this post has a political content that I usually keep for myself or for friends and close relatives. Politics is too serious to be discussed on the Internet and a 600-word post can only gloss over events, beliefs and concepts that would need books on their own.
The ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
This is a cross posting from Laura Agustín's blog, Border Thinking on Migration and Trafficking: Culture, Economy and Sex. It is worth circulating broadly in an age where everything is conflated and reduced to a black and white understdanting.
Briefly, sex workers at the Barn Funn Brothel have been forcibly "rescued ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
This piece was written in September 2006. The AIDS conference it mentionned was the one before that of 2008 where vulnerable groups where at last put under the spotlights. Names, places and minor details have been modified to protect people’s privacy.
Bedtime story
Wat, my neighbour has a new lodger, a 35-year ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Or the case of Thailand compulsory licensing vs. right wing pharmaceutical lobbyists
This article was written in May 2007, revised in June 2007 and minor edits were made on 17/11/08. I decided to republish it after my attention was drawn by the Wisdom of Whores to a recent opinion piece written ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Miss Pink Competition 2006
© peripheries
In an article strangely entitled “Thailand's lady-boys are in a class of their own, at last”, The Independent reports on the Bangkok Suan Dusit University where young male transgenders are allowed to wear make up and female uniform. It is this “at last” that is rather ...
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