Welcome!
Welcome to The Green Light District, and thanks for visiting! The Green Light District is my author website and blog, launched in early January 2009.* My blog, which is set as the home page upon entry to the site, is a fairly comprehensive representation of the site—this page is just a more expansive and formal welcome in case you’re not familiar with me, my work, or my website.
The title of the site, The Green Light District, came to fruition during a spontaneous conversation with my partner. There was construction being done near my residence, including new traffic light installation, and as we were driving through the intersection one day I commented on “the pretty bright green lights” (which I guess was the case because they were new). He responded, “Yeah…it’s like a green light district.” Immediately I knew I wanted that to be the name of my website.
“The Green Light District” is a play on words in a few ways—first, of course, emeralds are green, so it fits my pen name. It also, however, is a throwback to the “red light district” reference to prostitution. I am a sex worker rights activist and advocate the decriminalization of prostitution, so the title “The Green Light District” is symbolic as such.
And lastly, the “green” symbolic significance as far as its meaning “go ahead” or “all clear,” etc., is a reference to the view in me about sexuality in juxtaposition with what seems to me a collective “red” undertone of vilification and oppression of sexuality evident in current society.
As is briefly stated in the right sidebar, this site is mainly dedicated to publishing/writing information and news, but my blog also contains commentary on social/political/spiritual/other matters as related to sex (and really, what isn’t related to sex?) and sex work.
Commenting is open to anyone—at this time you do not need to register or provide your email address, and you have the option of posting anonymously. Please feel free to comment any time. While it may appear that commenters are frequently people who “know” me and each other (and this is often true), newcomers are invariably welcome, and I am indeed delighted that you are here!
You may also email me via the “Contact Me” link after my short bio in the right sidebar. Thank you again for coming by, and please feel welcome any time!
Please feel free to find/contact me via any of the following:
Email me (Emerald AT TheGreenLightDistrict DOT org) “Like” me on Facebook Goodreads author page Amazon author page
*Though the site was launched at the beginning of 2009, at that time I uploaded all previous blog posts from my MySpace blog relevant to both writing and the aforementioned topics. Posts are labeled by categories listed in the left sidebar and have been back-posted under the dates they were originally posted on MySpace.
