Susie Bright is one of my personal heroes. Always has been, from the first time I saw her on TV as a young teen.

Now she has written about the attack on Craigslist to get it to remove the sex ads from its site:

Craig’s List has removed its Adult Services section from their bulletin board, under  pressure from a McCarthyist collection of “non-profits” (cough cough) and ambitious law enforcement magistrates.

I think their decision was a tactical retreat—  with the swipe of a claw. I have no professional interest or investment in CL, nor am I privy to their private discussions. But I have a sense of “deju vu” from previous witchhunts, and a clear memory of CL’s origins.

There was one piece of her post that in particular spoke to me, as a lifelong feminist who has spent her entire career working with domestic violence and sexual assault victims:

You won’t find the anti-Porn, anti-Trafficking Activists in the domestic abuse shelter, the rape crisis hotline, the emergency room, the orphanage, the refugee camps. Heavens, no. They have no interest or knowledge of what goes on in the trenches. They are actively fighting sex workers all over the world who have articulated their needs and rights. They don’t want anyone to have any kind of sex they don’t sanction. They are FRAUDS.

Thank you Susie, for continuing to inspire me to this day! Read the entire fantastic post here.