@sexworkhistorian
She/her| Historian| PhD candidate| Author| SW ally/accomplice| Feminist harpy - Forthcoming dissertation looks at how sex work shaped Toronto's identity (1970-2014) - Publications/Media: https://linktr.ee/thesexworkhistorian - OPINIONS MY OWN
Hey, this is quite big!
Hadn't checked the bill until now (PDF); it really is removing sex work related sanctions!
Including sex work itself. ❤️
(Yes, minors and trafficking is still illegal. None on those is removed).
There's apparently a hearing this Wednesday.
leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-097
🤞
An extremely difficult, but necessary read by Juniper Fitzgerald: feministpress.org/products/978...
#BisexualHealthAwarenessMonth
(2/2) "Difficult" to treat (either medically or with dignity). "Difficult" to comprehend. "Difficult" to accept. Anyone who isn't cis-het, white, or straight is difficult under the isms. Also, this article is from 1997...take that biphobic/fatphobic 90s!
#BisexualHealthAwarenessMonth
(1/2) "The prejudice against fat and bi people manifests itself within cultural beliefs that our bodies and sexualities are ‘difficult’." bicommunitynews.co.uk/1997/01/31/f...
(4/5) Full Instagram post found here: www.instagram.com/p/DVmcSkRicp...
(3/5) "A feminist movement that is truly committed to justice, autonomy, and inclusion must recognize and respect the rights and humanity of Black [sex] workers. There is no meaningful feminism without the inclusion of all women. Justice. Autonomy. Inclusion."- The Black Sex Worker Collective
(2/5) "Black [sex] workers continue to face stigma, criminalization, violence, and systemic exclusion from spaces that claim to advocate for women’s rights. Yet across the world, they organize, lead, and advocate for safer communities, health equity, labor rights, and bodily autonomy."
(1/5) "On this day of global recognition for women’s rights, it is important to acknowledge that Black [sex] workers are part of the feminist movement and part of the broader struggle for justice, equality, and dignity."
#InternationalWomen'sDay
#Women'sHistoryMonth
(2/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkLj...
I think both videos by shut up zo. are more than worth watching for #Women'sHistoryMonth
(4/4) link to original Instagram post here: www.instagram.com/p/DVlJTfbFFU...
(3/4) "From Lola Olufemi to bell hooks, anarcha-feminist and trans-femme texts, these are books written by women to help women stand their ground in this era of late-stage capitalism. All books 40% off until 15th March [ www.plutobooks.com/feminism-is-... ]." - Pluto Press
(2/4) "It was a day of militancy, uniting working-class women against capitalism, patriarchy, and war. Let’s bring that vibe back! This collection highlights women who challenge the boundaries of what white, liberal feminism deems acceptable."
(1/4) "...March 8th marks International Women’s Day. With its origins in the early 20th century, the day was spearheaded by socialists and communists in Russia, America and across Europe."
Happy #InternationalWomen'sDay ✊
“What happens when feminism excludes the very women it claims to liberate?”
Listen to Shahed Ezaydi discuss The Othered Woman at the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social:
rss.com/podcasts/bra...
PSA: #InternationalWomen'sDay is for ALL women and femme persons, not just the folks you like or "recognize" as women/femme persons. Today is for BIPOC women, trans women, queer women, sex-working women, and queer, trans BIPOC women/femme persons doing sex work ❤️☂️
Absolutely- media will create divide by having shows like diary of a call girl played by loved well known actors but refuse support for anything else, using “street walker” narratives and nothing in between.
💯. It is one of the major pillars helping to support external whorephobia and whorearchy.
(8/8) "The ACT [Australian Capital Territory] Government is considering changes to the laws about sex work in the ACT. These changes aim to strengthen sex worker rights and to create a fairer system with less discrimination."
yoursayconversations.act.gov.au/fairer-and-s...
(6/8) www.vogue.com/article/why-...
More women and femme folks don't pay for sex because intersectional, colonial patriarchal remnants everything through the cis-het male experience. Women don't pay for it because we don't feel like we are allowed
#FuckPatriarchy
(5/8) www.kqed.org/news/1207532...
If only SOME of us had listened, this current shit storm could have been avoided.
#ListentoSexWorkers
(3/8) "When artist Daze Jefferies describes her new exhibition, pleasuremonger, she speaks of sex worker justice and a social and political framework that recognizes sex workers as workers, challenges criminalization and calls for care and dignity." gazette.mun.ca/research/wav...
(2/8) "Legislation that claims to protect sex workers is actually taking away their anonymity and privacy leading them into more precarious work environments." rabble.ca/feminism/sex...
If only sex workers said something. Oh, WAIT...they did🙄
(1/8) #SexWorkSaturday thread! These links, as usual, come from not.a.statistic on Instagram and the Old Pros newsletter. If you haven't subscribed to the latter, I highly recommend that you do ❤️
(7/7) Where many courtesans were on courtly estates and in palaces. Many working-class sex workers were either street-based, working in brothels that catered to more working-class clientele, working out of taverns, or working the docks.
(6/7) Working-class sex workers did not necessarily have this luxury. They faced (as many do today) more social scrutiny and violence because of their status. They didn't have the same political, social, and financial advantages as their elite contemporaries.
