Debbie Nathan

CounterPunch just reprinted a fascinating piece by Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi about Mexico’s Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer (Street Brigade in Support of Women). It’s part of the Mexican Sex Work Network collective, which works with prostitutes and transvestites. “This has meant transcending the ‘victim’ role and becoming people who want to be [...]

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( Almost all illustrations in this post, including the black-and-white nude, are computer generated and do not portray real people. Some virtual images are reproduced from work published by Dartmouth College Professor Hany Farid … see below for more about him.) More of the latest sex-pol research and news: from studies of young people and [...]

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I still get asked about David, whom I wrote about in New York Magazine a couple of years ago. He’s the undocumented Mexican who was living in a basement with over two dozen other immigrants. People wonder how he’s doing. David and one of his former roommates, Jose, keep in touch because they live near [...]

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Writer David France was on (click here) Boston public radio WBUR yesterday, talking about his story, in last month’s New York Magazine, about the fall of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. France’s interview is the first normal radio piece about the subject — “normal” referring to the quaint practice of a host asking [...]

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I dropped by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, held at NYC’s Museum of Natural History over the weekend. The fest began decades ago, to showcase moving-image offerings by anthropologists — materials that have been coming out since stuff like Man of Aran first appeared in the 1930s. Back then, the medium was 35 [...]

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I’m still out of town and busy, so for several more days there’ll be no wordy blogging. Meanwhile, check out David France’s piece in the latest issue of New York Magazine, “Saving Justin Berry” for — finally! — some actual reporting by someone other than I, about Kurt Eichenwald (click here) There’s a lot missing [...]

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(The original entry was updated on October 20) If you’ve listened to AM or FM since October 19 and you’re visiting this site, it probably means you heard NPR’s “All Things Considered” about the strange fate of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. The program presented his claim, made publicly for the first time, [...]

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It’s been awhile since I hit the sex-panic button on this blog … been playing hooky from newspapers and the internet cave to hit sidewalks and neighborhoods during September’s Indian summer. As usual, though, much is happening back in Terror & Loathing land — a place densely populated with out-of-control minors, who appear mostly to [...]

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Fascinating article in today’s Times about Israeli unease over a closeted genre of 1960s-era porn novels – stuff so outré that it even seems to have spooked editors in New York. Stalags, the porn is called. It first appeared around the time of the Eichmann trial. It was inspired by the testimony and work of [...]

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Orale! (Translation: “Dude!”) Seth B. is winner of last week’s T-shirt design contest. He’s shown here in the shirt I made after he submitted the prize acronym for “Gringo.” Seth is now catwalk ready for his next demonstration or protest march. Felicidades!

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