Monica Jones (other)
Monica Jones may refer to: * Monica Jones (activist), American transgender and sex work activist * Monica Jones, lover of Philip Larkin *Monica Moriarty Monica Moriarty (née Jones; born c. 1961) is a Canadian curling, curler. She won the and the 1999 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, 1999 Canadian Mixed Championship. Teams Women's Mixed Personal life Moriarty is a sister of former tea ...

Monica Jones (activist)
Monica Jones is an African American transgender woman and sex work activist. While a student at Arizona State University, Jones campaigned against Project ROSE, a police sting operation against sex workers, which were aided by the ASU School of Social Work and religious charities. Sex work activism One day after attending a protest against the laws enacted under Project ROSE, which allowed police to arrest anyone suspected of "manifesting the intent to prostitute," Jones was arrested under this law by the Phoenix police while walking to a gay bar. Jones was found guilty by the court. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed an ''amicus curiae'' for Jones, arguing that the law is "unconstitutionally vague and overbroad". She fought against the charges for the next two years, while attending the social work program at ASU. Laverne Cox and Janet Mock joined a campaign against the Phoenix law, which they argue targets transgender women of color, following the conviction of ...
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Relationships That Influenced Philip Larkin
Throughout the life of the poet Philip Larkin, multiple women had important roles which were significant influences on his poetry. Since Larkin's death in 1985, biographers have highlighted the importance of female relationships on Larkin: when Andrew Motion's biography was serialised in ''The Independent'' in 1993, the second installment of extracts was dedicated to the topic. In 1999, Ben Brown's play ''Larkin with Women'' dramatised Larkin's relationships with three of his lovers, and more recently writers such as Martin Amis, continued to comment on this subject. Amis is the son of the British novelist, and Larkin's long-standing friend, Kingsley Amis. While primarily a novelist, Amis also wrote more than six volumes of poetry. Biographer Richard Bradford contends that, over the course of Larkin's life, his relationship with Amis transformed from one of mutual appreciation and encouragement, to a much more fraught dynamic. Bradford has stated that in the later years of their ...
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