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Sex Workers: Stepping Out of the Shadows: Online sex work and stripping prove safer than prostitution

*This story contains graphic information of sexual content and violence. Names of those identified in the story have been altered to protect their identities.

“I can make $74,000 in one month,” a 23-year-old OnlyFans online sex worker, who asked her name not be used for safety reasons, said.

OnlyFans is an online subscription service that is primarily used by sex workers to earn money for their content, which may contain photos, videos and personalized chat rooms with one’s favorite creator.
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Sex Workers: Stepping Out of the Shadows: From survival to service: The journey of a former sex worker turned advocate

*This story contains graphic information of sexual content, violence and strong language. Some names of those identified in the story have been altered to protect their identities.

“My own Mama pimped me out,” said Stephanie Sepeda, founder and CEO of Project Resilience and former sex worker.

At 4 years old, Sepeda’s mom sold her to men to feed her own cocaine addiction.

“That’s when I learned men like little girls,” Sepeda said.

Her experience with child prostitution and gang involvement vi
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Sex Workers: Stepping Out of the Shadows: Pomona’s open secret: Prostitution unveiled

*This story contains graphic information of sexual content, violence and strong language. Some names have been altered to protect their identities.

POMONA – “I once knew a girl named Essence on Figueroa, a trick shot her and murdered her right in front of me,” said Alex, a sex worker in Pomona, who asked that her full name not be used for safety reasons.

She began working in Pomona after she moved in with her cousin who lives there.

Pomona is known for a lot, such as its eclectic art gallerie
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Goat farm set to move by end of year

Corporate industrialization continues to rip through the last few standing farms in the Chino and Ontario area, even in a time of climate crisis when agriculture is so beneficial to lowering our carbon emissions.

Drake Family Farms, a goat farm located on 7255 Schaefer Ave. in Ontario, is tentatively set to move about 50 miles south at the end of the year to Winchester, California, after developers bought the five acres the Drake Family rented for 14 years.

“We have mixed feelings because we h
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Leopards win SCIAC opener with sudden death goal

During a deluged sudden death, freshman attacker Reiley Burton scored the winning goal for the women’s water polo team in their first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match-up against the Whittier Poets on Wednesday night at Haldeman Pool in Claremont.

“Scoring the winning goal was a super rewarding moment,” Burton said. “I am so grateful for my teammates and all of their amazing moments during the night that led to this win.”

The final score of 9-8 extended the Leopards
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La Verne City Council cancels March Council elections

The La Verne City Council has canceled the March 5 council election and has reappointed existing council members Wendy Lau and Rick Crosby, to districts two are five respectively, for additional four-year terms.

The council approved this election cancellation unanimously in December after no challengers came forward to try and unseat the two incumbents.

This practice is allowed under Section 10229 of the California Elections Code, which states that if no one is nominated, city officials may su
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Administrators reverse January interterm move to May

University of La Verne administrators have reevaluated their plan to move January interterm to May, and will no longer be moving forward with the change that had been set for the 2025-26 academic year.

The decision to abort the move came after students expressed their unhappiness with the change via a series of meetings with the Associated Students of the University of La Verne and other forums.

An informal survey conducted by the Campus Times last month found that 23 out of 25 University stud
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Alumnus receives award for thought provoking photography

The Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honored Ben Camacho, a freelance documentary photographer, investigative journalist at KnockLA and University of La Verne alumnus, on Wednesday night at the association’s 47th annual Distinguished Journalist Awards event.

The event was held at The Omni Hotel in Los Angeles, which was filled with journalists across platforms from LAist public radio to the Los Angeles Times.

Camacho graduated from the University in 2018 with a ba
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Students toggle between Spotify and Apple Music

Daily mixed playlists compiled up of songs from a variety of genres one listens to or better audio performance and volume levels? Or how about a larger variety of artists or a simpler design interface?

When it comes to music streaming platforms, the conversation of whether Spotify or Apple Music is the elite music app never ends as each platform continues to evolve and add features to keep up with its competitors.

In a recent informal survey, 18 out of 25 students said they prefer Spotify over
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A focus on environmental ethics in Berlin’s fashion world

On the grand boulevard of Unter Den Linden, stands Berlin’s 17th century Kronprinzenpalais, which served in earlier eras as the red carpet for royal Prussian huntsmen on their way toward the Tiergarten woods. In the 20th century, it saw Nazi processions that goose-stepped their way down the center of the city, honoring a regime that also destroyed the Linden trees that the thoroughfare is named for, to use as firewood.

But this summer, the former Crown Prince’s Palace pushed past its environmen

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