User:Satellithias

About me
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

 * Grips-Theater - Expanded stub to full entry, by translating, updating and expanding the German original
 * Kristallnaach - Created English language entry
 * Little rabbit jokes - Created English language entry

Human Rights

 * 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

 * Bareun Party - Added defection of 9 lawmakers to Liberty Korea Party
 * Iain McNicol - Added details to section about 2016 Labour Party leadership election
 * Tulsi Gabbard - Added Bernie Sanders' tweet defending Gabbard after Hillary Clinton's comments that Russia was "grooming" a female Democrat to run as third-party candidate
 * Yulia Malinovsky - Added bill authored by Malinovsky that, if approved, would designate the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a terrorist organization.
 * Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea - Added background to 2024 trash balloon campaign

Society

 * Mayim Bialik - Added controversy surrounding Bialik's op-ed in The New York Times after the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations surfaced
 * Yann Moix - Added controversy surrounding Moix's comments about women over 50 in an interview with Marie Claire
 * List of sex museums - Added Museum of Sex & Health in Seogwipo, Jeju Island
 * Martin Gottschild - Added details about controversy that led to Gottschild's departure from radioZwei
 * Hendrik Streeck - Added details about his grandfather, Hans Streeck, who was a chemist, manager, and SS official. The details, which have been added by others in the past, were removed on the same day.
 * Kurt-Werner Wichmann (German Wikipedia page) - Added episodes of the ZEIT Verbrechen true crime podcast.

Music

 * Khruangbin - Added Discography and External Link
 * I Wonder If I Take You Home - Added information about cover versions to the Legacy section
 * Private Dancer - Added information about cover versions
 * Sometimes It Snows in April - Added information about cover versions
 * Thomas Chapin - Added link to source for quote from the New York Times
 * 20th Century Boy - Added versions by Placebo & David Bowie as well as Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts

Culture

 * Linie 1 - Expanded synposis, development, adaptations and cover versions
 * Koreana_(magazine) - Updated and expanded details, added cover art
 * Korea Foundation - Updated and expanded details, added the foundation's logo
 * Vir Das - Added Das's appearance on the Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast

Sports

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

People-first Language
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.


 * Fried Green Tomatoes