Heather Berg / The Stripper in the Coal Mine: Sex Work and Labor Rights

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Gender and Sexuality studies scholar Heather Berg talks about her Boston Review article "Freedom, Not Benefits Sex workers are labor’s vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril." We have the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!, and producer Seb introduces his rebranded segment "The Past inside the Present" with the first half of a two-parter on the most fun topic of all: the Holocaust. https://bostonreview.net/articles/freedom-not-benefits/

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0:00.0	Oh, Take it back! And then.
0:14.0	Take it back! This. This is Hell Office Hours hours our weekly meet and greet which has not
0:46.6	happened since February of 2020 returns next Wednesday,
0:53.2	Wednesday, August 24th.
0:55.5	It carries lounge 2251 West Devon Avenue,
0:58.3	the bar downstairs from where I am sitting right now
1:02.0	our weekly meet and greet which is actually more of a
1:05.3	drink and think will be taking place on at a regularly scheduled time yet
1:11.4	again beginning next Wednesday
1:13.4	August 24th at around six o'clock over here at Carrie's lounge
1:18.4	hang out with everybody from the show as well as some listeners again
1:22.2	this is how office hours return next
1:24.8	Wednesday August 24th I hope to see all of you there live from the United States
1:29.6	where the law is far too often the crime this is hell when fighting for what you consider a just cause you may want to
1:39.8	consider the battles of those who have sacrificed before you.
1:44.0	You may want to examine the victories and defeats that have happened along the way
1:48.0	to make sure you build upon whatever success has been experienced in the past
1:52.0	and to learn from and avoid making any of
1:55.3	the same old mistakes again. Back in the 1970s during one of the many campaigns
2:01.2	for equality, justice, freedom, and liberation,
2:04.3	the Black Feminist Lesbian Socialist Organization known as the Kombahii River Collective,
2:09.2	released an important statement wherein they argued if black women were free it would mean that
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