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"Strips & Pieces" is a wonderful Robot Hugs web comicstrip about sexworkers, in particular, strippers. The strip's creator, RH, interviews a Canadian sexworker, Vex, with cheery illustrations that reinforce the conversation. (After the graphic strip, which is quite detailed and long, there's a complete transcript YAY)

begin quote Some men feel a lot of resentment towards sex workers controlling their access to us, and they have anger towards us for requiring compensation for what they feel entitled to for free. They use our services, but they’re so bitter about it.

I feel that this resentment and anger is is the basis for a lot of the violence that sex workers experience at the hands of their clients. quote ends

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I've worked as a freelance graphic artist. This cartoon eloquently captures the continual teeter-totter between "being true to your own self" and "getting paid."

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Almost 100 examples of Colleen Clark's art/comix, which deals with body image, fandom, serious and fun stuff. Line drawings, a handful NSFW. Visual only. If you only have a few minutes, Check out we are all Barbie Girls collection.

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Here's an electronics company which encourages employees to bring their dogs to work. They take this quite seriously, and this PR piece explains many of the details involved. (They don't have company-branded poop bags, but they come close!)

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Sit back in awe to watch AO3 users discuss whether "written while drunk" should be a canonical tag and then enjoy this meta tag Fic as a unicorn chaser

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