The air was already muggy at 9 a.m. when my blue-soled, Betsey Johnson lace pumps hit the sidewalk. I was in Miami for an adult industry trade show, and fellow colleagues teased me for doing the “walk of shame,” as I made my way back to my own hotel room…

by Siouxsie Q February 26, 2014 In the winter of 2009, I sat in my tiny bedroom in the Inner Richmond — a glorified laundry room with a linoleum floor and a futon mattress in the corner. I stared at my laptop screen. On it flashed the model application for…

by Siouxsie Q March 5, 2014 “Teens sold for sex aren’t prostitutes, they’re rape victims.” That’s what the billboard just a few blocks from my house reads. I live in West Oakland near San Pablo Avenue, where the reality of minors in the sex industry is on my doorstep. …

by Siouxsie Q March 12, 2014 “I want to believe that we are all a little more heroic than we are flawed, that the honorable role of ‘Daddy’ does exist. … Some people have prayer; they believe in God or a higher power. I believe in Daddy.” — Madison Young …

by Siouxsie Q March 19, 2014 Secret clubs are cool. That’s just a fact of life. Fucking and fighting are fun. That’s another fact. In the spring of 2010, I was more than a little girl crazy. The summer Pride season was on the horizon and I knew there was…

by Siouxsie Q May 25, 2016 “What’s it like having a gun?” a young Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse, as McLovin, asks the cringe-inducing cops played by screenwriter Seth Rogen and Saturday Night Live veteran Bill Hader. “It’s like having two dicks, if one of them could kill someone,” Hader replies, without…

by Siouxsie Q May 18, 2016 Although California is known as a liberal haven, it is also a state with a serious incarceration problem. In 2009, federal courts mandated that the Golden State reduce its prison population, which was the highest in the nation at the time. From a peak…

by Siouxsie Q May 11, 2016 Last week, I took my first trip to Sacramento to lobby at the state capitol. It was a grueling day of tense meetings and hushed strategic conversations about how to save the world — just like I dreamed it would be. The flags, the…

by Siouxsie Q May 4, 2016 The first time I worked in an office was for Allstate Insurance as a glorified receptionist. I hated the stuffy work environment, the soft-rock radio, and especially the fact that my boss wouldn’t allow me to put a photo of my girlfriend on my…