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Satellithias

Joined 6 May 2008

About me edit

I work as copy editor and, on occasion, as translator, and have spent the last two decades between Western Europe and East Asia. My interests include human rights, particularly sex workers' rights, as well as politics and music. I joined Wikipedia in 2011 and am grateful for any advice or corrections.

Entries I created or expanded from stubs edit

Entries I contributed to edit

Human Rights edit

  • Commercial sexual exploitation of adults - Currently updating Wikipedia to replace the term "sex trafficking" with "commercial sexual exploitation," which connotes a broader understanding of the "exploitative conditions individuals can endure, which are not necessarily captured under United Nations, U.S., or individual 50 state policy definitions," as Lemke points out. In addition, the term "sex trafficking," unlike "commercial sexual exploitation of children," leaves out both the people being exploited and the exploitation itself, and instead labels as "sex" what is rape. (see also Linguistic prescription)
  • Laura Lee (sex worker) - Added first-ever sex worker protest in Northern Ireland
  • John McDonnell - Added details about McDonnell's speech during the Modern Slavery Act 2015 debate in the House of Commons on 4 November 2014, in which he highlighted the lack of evidence for any correlation between the Swedish sex purchase ban and a reduction in numbers of sex workers or their clients. McDonnell cited findings "that not only do such measures not work, they actually cause harm" and added he was "not in favour of legalisation" but "in favour of full decriminalisation" of sex work. Has since been removed although speech was on the parliament's website.
  • Bob Geldof - Added section about Geldof's conduct during the 2014 International AIDS Conference, where he referred to sex workers as "hookers" and subsequently defended using terms such as "hookers" and "junkies" after being criticized by sex worker activists.
  • Melissa Farley - Included infamous poem by Farley and Nikki Craft in which they displayed their contempt for sex workers. Has since been removed although poem was on Farley's own website.
  • Police abuse of sex workers in the United States - Updated and corrected nearly all footnotes for this entry.

Politics edit

Society edit

Music edit

Culture edit

Sports edit

  • Jeju United FC - Expanded history and records to include outcome of the 2019 and 2020 seasons

People-first Language edit

From here on out, I will edit entries to use people-first language where necessary, e.g. "people living with disabilities" instead of "the disabled;" "people sleeping rough" instead of "the homeless;" etc. Below I'll list all entries where I've done so.

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