Siouxsie Q and Sam Solo came up with 17 reasons to believe 2017 might actually be ok. From the obvious (legal weed, legal kitties) to the plainly counter-intuitive, like the chance of evolving social understanding of consent despite electing a rapist-in-chief. The year 2016 may have tested Siouxsie's naturally unbridled optimism but the Whore Next Door is not giving up just yet.

Siouxsie Q sits down with, Violet, an old friend from college who now works in legal brothels in Australia. The two discuss Violet's path to sex work, December 17 (International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers), and the differences between working in AUS vs USA.

Kimberlee Kline shares her thoughts on the arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer and the state of the sex worker rights movement.

The election is almost here so this will our final Prop 60 podcast. This week Sam talks with two industry friends, Gage Sinn & Madame Max, about how this ballot measure will change their lives.

Special thanks this week to Venus Lux, Ariel X, and Verta, the performers who attended the November 1st press conference in San Francisco and shared their stories own of online harassment. Thanks as well to Jane Kim, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation,  Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club and Equality California  for voicing their solidarity with performers in opposing Prop 60. Read about the press conference here and here.

Biggest thanks as always goes to the Free Speech Coalition and to San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener

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This week Siouxsie Q checks in with a progress report from the No On Prop 60 campaign trail. Whether it is debating on public radio or picketing in the streets, The Whore Next Door has been living the battle for the ballot non-stop since we last heard from her at Folsom Street Fair. Siouxsie shares some of the tricks of the politics trade she has picked up and explains why she is more hopeful than ever that Prop 60 can be defeated.

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Siouxsie Q met up with state senate candidate and No On Prop 60 ally Scott Wiener at the Folsom Street Fair this year. As a city supervisor Scott Wiener has been a champion for the LGBT community and is the first public official to come out about being on PrEP. He was kind enough to come spend a bit of his Folsom at the Kink.com sponsored No Prop 60 booth to talk about why he opposes the proposition. Big thanks to Supervisor Wiener for his sharing his time.

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We have a real pre-Folsom treat this week with a conversation between Nina Hartley and Siouxsie Q at the Center For Sex And Culture (CSC) earlier this September. They talk everything from theories about the role of religion in the backgrounds of kinky people to Nina's days working in peep shows before they cleaned up Times Square. Folsom weekend is a great time to learn at the feet of one of the fairy godmothers of perversion and Nina definitely delivers.   The interview was part of an Expo put on by the CSC to help raise funds to keep the amazing community center/library/performance space open. Please consider donating to the Center For Sex And Culture at  http://www.sexandculture.org/

Siouxsie is joined by friend of the show and fierce adult performer advocate, Mia Li, to discuss the many flaws of Prop 60 and the potential effects on California's adult industry workers. The two of them even get into a little voter role play. A great primer on the basics of Prop 60  and also a good reminder about why it is so important to make sure this measure is defeated on November 8th.

As a member of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) Ela Darling has worked with Siouxsie on the campaign against Prop 60 but the two sit down with her discuss some lighter topics at XBiz Miami this summer. Ela gives a quick history of VR gaming and tells the hilarious story of meeting the college D&D nerd who would become her VR porn business partner. She details their expansion from VR porn to include camming, dating sims, and 360 VR content. Ela has been interviewed by XBiz, Wired, and the BBC on the topic of VR porn butsince she is also a self identified member of House Slytherin conquering her chosen industry is probably to be expected. Check her out at Cam4.com/vr or APAC

According to the director, the amazing Mona Wales, "Real Fucking Girls" is a "tell-all film about translesbian sexual encounters where each scene re-tells a real life lesbian hookup of one of our performers,” explained director Mona Wales. SiouxsieQ was a co-writer on this all-girl production and in this episode she takes listeners behind the scenes with the cast and crew at the premiere in Los Angeles last month.