Posts by Louise Binns
What we read: 6 titles about sex work

Within fictional media there’s certainly a repetitive depiction of sex workers, especially women, often reducing them to damsels in distress, shrouded in tragedy, living in extreme poverty or the perpetual victim of serial killers who we only meet when they’re a corpse. Here are some titles that break the mold.

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What we read: Women in Translation month

Women in Translation month takes place in August of every year and started in 2014 as an initiative by U.S. book blogger Meytal Radzinski, who grew up in a bilingual household. When you consider that female, and female-identifying, authors are often relegated to the second shelf in their native language, it strongly suggests that there is also a barrier firmly in place when it comes to translating their work.

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