Grace Jones: I deliberately challenged men’s roles. In fact, I survived by taking on both roles. By the way, I also think that all men need to be penetrated.
Jean-Paul Goude: I beg your pardon?
Grace Jones: At least once in their lifetime.
Jean-Paul Goude: Why?
Grace Jones: Because then they would understand what it is like to receive. It’s my own theory, which I think could help take some of the aggression out of the world.

Oh, Grace. I love you.

On Your Knees! It’s Miss Grace Jones « Sublimefemme Unbound

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Akimbo: “Articles from India, Mali, Spain, the UK and the US, illustrated with beautiful photographs by Mathilde Bouvard, discuss pleasure and sex work, the failures of raids to help trafficked persons, violence against sex workers and more. The journal has just released its 11th issue in English and French, which you can download as a PDF by visiting the website, or you can request a paper copy by emailing editor [at] r4sw.org.”

Research for Sex Work 11

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The Honduran coup d’etat - The Big Picture

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“This project in downtown Phoenix was supposed to include nearly two dozen luxury homes, priced from $2.8 million to $4.5 million. But by early 2007, the city’s high-end condominium market — which was among the country’s hottest — had become oversaturated. Prices started to fall, and Chateaux on Central’s developer, Central PHX Partners, declared bankruptcy. A local commercial lender, Mortgages Ltd., stepped in that year with an offer to provide nearly $50 million in loans to help Central PHX complete construction. But the deal turned sour, and in March 2008, the developer sued Mortgages Ltd., claiming the lender had not made promised payments. On June 2, 2008, the C.E.O. of Mortgages Ltd., Scott Coles, committed suicide. At the time, one-third of his company’s loans were in default. More than a year later, Chateaux on Central remains unoccupied and unfinished.”

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age - The New York Times Magazine

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Louise Lawler - Pollock and Tureen, 1984
Silver dye bleach print; 28 x 39 in. (71.1 x 99.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000 (2000.434)