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Hi! I wrote a medium article!
If you've been at all interested in what I've been posting about historical sex work and FTM crossdressing, that's what this is about. I go over three examples of this in ancient Greece, Renaissance Venice, and 19th-20th-century San Francisco, and talk a bit about my thoughts on how these stories tie in to transmasculine erasure (& specifically the erasure of gay transmasculinity).
#m.#transmasc history#gay transmasc history#transmasculinity#anti-transmasculinity#transandrophobia#theory#whorephobia#sinophobia#racism#queer history#trans history
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also i am forever + always angry at all the people who are interested in "saving sex workers from themselves." the way we are made into both a victim to be saved and simultaneously the dangerous threat we must be saved from (the language of psychiatry, "danger to yourself or others" feels very relevant here, there is a connection between carceral psychiatry as a "solution" to madness and policing + criminalization as a "solution" for sex work). the absolute lack of compassion so many "anti-sex trafficking orgs" have for any actual survivors + sex workers is not shocking, but it makes me fucking livid. when i see people pretending to want to help sex workers they never actually listen to what we say we need; they want control and they want to use us to fit into their narratives about morality and safety.
i think about all the shit that actually would have helped me when I didn't want to be doing sex work, and all of it was resources, support, and community that could not happen when sex work is criminalized. whorephobia and criminalization fucking kills, and i am so tired of people pretending to advocate for sex workers while promoting policies that harm us so fucking much.
#personal#sw#ok 2 reblog#decriminalization#decriminalize sex work#anyway i love all of us so fucking much#whorephobia#and i am always so angry about the nordic model.
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Sohn was eminently qualified to serve on the FCC, and there was no mystery as to who she would serve in that role: the American people, especially those who have been abused, forgotten or underserved by Big Telco and Big Cable, from digitally redlined inner-city to rural broadband deserts.
So the monopolists went to work. For sixteen months, they successfully lo the Senate to block her confirmation hearing. Not her confirmation — just the hearing. Over $23 million in telco money flowed into the Senate over this period, and that was just the start.
The ISPs also went to work on the frothing culture warriors of the American right, smearing Sohn as a “groomer” and an “anti-police radical.” They ran a homophobic smear campaign against Sohn, who is gay, and condemned her for her work as a volunteer board member with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the grounds that EFF opposes unconstitutional digital police surveillance and campaigned against SESTA/FOSTA, a law that has put sex-workers in grave physical danger while doing nothing to accomplish its nominal goal of preventing sex-trafficking (disclosure: I am a Special Advisor to EFF and am proud to have worked with them for over 21 years).
-Culture War Bullshit Stole Your Broadband: Your internet sucks because telco monopolists kept Gigi Sohn off the FCC
#culture war bullshit#broadband#queerbaiting#gigi sohn#fcc#municipal fiber#sesta/fosta#whorephobia#turkeys voting for christmas#dinos#america fuck yeah
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He's not even in a "hyper-sexual environment" honey... That's just the typical whorephobia that everyone in the show puts on Angel ... Expect maybe ... no, no Husk is whorephobic to him, too.
Also, I love how everyone keeps saying that Alastor is just so touch repulsed while conveniently forgetting that he's sexually harassed Vaggie at least twice.
This video is actually made by a brony... I.
Girl, considering the fandoms you've willingly been in, you don't get to talk about what can and can't be handled and you've just another example of why it's all so annoying.
#Hazbin Hotel#hazbin hypocritical#Alastor#Angel Dust#angel dust hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel angel dust#alastor hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel alastor#the radio demon#I will never understand why people are so overprotective Al but don't give a fuck about Angel ...#I will always be concerned about#whorephobia#over#ace discourse#every time ... <3#undescribed
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excerpts from Amber Dawn’s “Touch ≠ Touch Screen” that i thought particularly resonated with the most recent iteration of conversations on transmisogynistic + whorephobic censorship on tumblr & other social media
image description: three screenshots of a poem from the collection My Art Is Killing Me (2020) with stylized spacing.
excerpt 1:
Just survivors, I’m talking only to you now (literally you).
Did your abuse fever teach you to solder belonging and harm?
Were you seen and were you shamed in the same
original place? Did you inherit
a coercive dichotomy?
Anxious arousal hand
me downs?
Does your public network see you and hate you in looping rounds?
Does logging on harm you? Does all this somehow feel familiar?
excerpt 2:
Let’s talk about 2018 when
FOSTA-SESTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop
Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) was passed as law by US Congress
on April 11, marking the first ever exception to Section 230.
So after twenty-two years, yes, twenty-two years, social media platforms
where made responsible for user generated content if that content may be
intended for sex work yes
all sex work, yes, consensual sex work and, yes
anything like a butthole or a female-presenting-assumed nipple, and yes
responsible for or in authority of images, words and phrases
that mend desire together
with age, race, size, orientation, disability, labour
economics and any bodies subject to other-ness.
And with other-ness, I’m talking about
fat babes in neon green lingerie, about two brown men
kissing, about trans women being radiant and using
their real fucking names. I’m talking about
masculine-presenting-assumed folk with baby bumps. I’m talking sexual
assault survivors showing off the scars on our inner thighs. I’m talking about
women posting screenshots of the violent Tinder messages we receive
every damn day. I’m talking about
speaking up. I’m talking language
reclamation. I’m talking decolonizing
sexualities. I’m talking gagged faggots
about dyke march photos
torn down. I’m talking
about locked accounts.
excerpt 3:
viii.
I’m talking about this—
power holding backlash. How dare we get those likes
those shares, take up virtual space
speak truths, share strategy, love our ash and phoenix
bodies, rise up or dig deep, whichever way or all
directions at once.
We can be nimble AF
but how dare we?
Make the internet
white relentlessly white again
str8 cis thin and norm again
Redesign the sightline
of hating women. I’m talking about this
power holding backlash.
I think about this a lot—
what it means to spend upwards
of two hours per day
on platforms that believe
we should not legally exist
un see able
end image description.
#poetry#amber dawn#whorephobia#transmisogyny#fosta sesta#social media#invisibilization#isolation#censorship#image described#mac’s bookshelf#she refers to tumblr as an e–mpire built on smut in the same poem
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Oh wow the person with dogshit takes on sex and sex work also turned out to be a terf and hate poor people???? Thats so fucking surprising 🙄
#this is in reference to multiple people falling for radfem shit every couple of days it feels like#whorephobia
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A zine I made about internalized whorephobia. Whorephobia is pervasive in society, but it's also very important to recognize that it's also sometime even sex workers ourselves absorb and perpetuate.
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Literally the only reason to be anti sex work is misogyny. Just admit you see women's bodies as objects to be used and that using them "wrong" or "too much" damages them in your eyes lmao. Argue with the wall.
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whorephobia is such an offensive and nasty thing to say…..i can’t believe libfems, tras or whatever clown uses that fake term thinks they’re a good & progressive person. You’re literally calling women whores because of what they do & then turn around and say you’re not a bunch of misogynists…how do y’all not understand that????
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We are using the policeman’s eye when we can’t see a sex worker as anything but his or her work, as an object to control. It’s not just a carceral eye; it’s a sexual eye. If a sex worker is always working, always available, she (with this eye, almost always a she) is essentially sexual. It’s the eye of the hotel room surveillance video but applied to our neighborhoods, our community groups, and our policies. Even the most seemingly benign “rehabilitation” programs for sex workers are designed to isolate them from the rest of the population. They may be described as shelters, but the doors are locked, the phones are monitored, and guests are forbidden. When we construct help in this way we use the same eye with which we build and fill prisons. This isn’t compassion. This isn’t charity. This is control.
When we look at sex workers this way we produce conditions in which they are always being policed. “Criminalization” isn’t just a law on the books but a state of being and moving in the world, of forming relationships—of having them predetermined for you. This is why we demonize the customer’s perspective on the sex worker as one of absolute control, why we situate the real violence sex workers can face as the individual man’s responsibility, and why we imagine that all sex workers must be powerless to say no. We have no way of understanding how to relate to the prostitute we’ve imagined but through control.
— Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant
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AITA for making a new life for myself?
(TWs: Mentions of death)
Okay, so, I (currently mid-30s, M) feel some context is necessary; my life has been kind of rough. I grew up in a cabin by a lake with my mother, sheltered from the outside world, and only made my way into the nearest city after she'd passed. There, I met the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. We hit it off, had a relationship that lasted almost a year, and then I'd found out she was a prostitute. In a move I'd forever regret, I broke up with her via letter and then immediately ran off to join the war.
This is where the real hardships began.
Being naive, I assumed that war would be the big break I needed, the one thing that would make me a hero. I was swiftly proved wrong after seeing several of my fellow troops die and almost dying myself after being bombed with Mustard Gas. The only real friend I had was another soldier, the son of our platoon's General. Well, after listening in on a story the General told one evening, I found out that he was my Father, as the events of the rather uncomfortable story lined up with when I would have been born. Needless to say, this, along with the horrific events I'd already seen, left me both enraged and despondent.
Eventually, I had calmed down some, and was busy enjoying a bonding moment with the General's son and the rest of the platoon, only for us to get ambushed and the General's son to get fatally wounded. Everyone else had scattered, leaving me as the only witness to the son's death. I was in hysterics over this, figuring that the son- who I suppose was my half-brother- deserved to live more than I did. Then, I decided I would have the son's memory live on by taking his identity and living on as him (a task that was made easier by us both looking almost identical). I then proceeded to kill the General, both as a way to make sure he didn't catch on to the switch and as revenge for him abandoning my mother.
Now I'm back in the town that I ran away from in my youth, living as the son. I was welcomed by his mother, taken to the more fun parts of town by his old friends, and even reunited with his fiancee. Nobody seems to have caught on yet, and for that I am grateful. Part of me mourns the fact that I can no longer be myself, yes, but it's all for the best. I'm even running for mayor as we speak, to make the city better for everyone, including the prostitute from my youth.
All that being said, AITA?
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I can’t believe these looksmaxxing girlies are whorephobic.
Girl… you’re in the gym 5 days a week, expensive skin care routine and surgeries, endless research on color analysis all for what? To bag a man? And not even a rich one at that?
Because “escorts and sugar babies are desperate low income girls with no education” and “no high value man wants a girl who can’t keep up in conversation 😌” yeah sure sweetheart. That’s why y’all are learning how to level up your conversation right? Because all men care about is having a smart girl. Lol straight up delusional.
I could write an essay on how the advice of sex workers mostly on here has been stolen by whorephobic hypergamy girlies. Because god forbid a woman use her beauty and charm to get ahead. No you have to be good, chaste, and boring because that’s what a “high value man” wants 😙😙. I can’t 😂
#vent#this about the vindicta sub on Reddit#I was enjoying the free advice until the whorephobia jumped out#pink pill#hypergamy#looksmaxxing#whorephobia#classism#sugar#heauxlife
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With F1nn5ter coming out as a genderfluid transfem (he/any) on HRT, reviving some discussions -
Whatever you do, even if you dislike Finn for good reasons:
Don't use the same rhetoric that is used against more explicit transfem sex workers and kink workers wrt "benefiting from misogyny and transmisogyny".
As a lot of the criticisms of unpalatable stuff he does on livestreams, overlap with kink work - and some of these discussions coincidentally borrow from anti-sex work transmisogyny propaganda.
Some of the transfem and TMA kink workers can see what you are saying, even if Finn can't.
Some of them are criticizing different aspects of this rhetoric right now, even. And am noticing the underlying implications and patterns - spelling it out to be more explicit.
(Am also not want any of y'all to be harassing these vulnerable people. And for the rest of y'all - if not magz saying please, then for your own trans* sisters?)
#we've seen other TMEs use this as an excuse to be boldly transmisogynistic as well.#like am sure there's reasons to feel vindicated about rich white streamers with a lot of influence doing things but don't do it like this.#text post#o post#transmisogyny#whorephobia#sij
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Let's load the gun
Make her eat the tape in the bathroom mirror
See if she can guess what
A hollow point does to a naked body
Let's fuck her up
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hello elliott! right now in school i'm learning about chinese immigration to the southwest in the 19th century, specifically ways that immigrant mobility was controlled by white settlers. one of those tools was the 1875 page act, which required chinese women to provide additional documentation proving they weren't sex workers in order to immigrate. the page act created crazy gender imbalances in immigrant populations (95% men in some places) and prevented most immigrants from starting families. i knew there's a long history of using purity politics surrounding sex work to control other populations, even right now with things like fosta/sesta, but i've never learned about how this worked earlier in american history (and how it intersected with racial/class issues, specifically). this is a vague question, more of an invitation but - do you know of other early examples of this that you want to talk about? no worries if not!! best wishes :-)
hey! YES i'm super interested in the history of sex work + how criminalization of sex work acted as a form of social control that targeted many groups beyond just sex workers. haven't spent as much time studying this as some other stuff i post about on here so just general disclaimer that all this info is certainly very incomplete.
the Page Act sort of started an era of increased federal attention to sex work. previously to the Page Act, sex work was considered a matter left to the states--various states had many different legal approaches to regulating sex work, and sex work was not universally criminalized at that point. there are some really interesting examples of this type of purity politics in the 19th century--mostly in the context of "moral reform" movements in the Second Great Awakening. I think this is an example of a place where we start to see the rise of this myth and moral panic about connections between immigration and sex work and this idea of the "fallen woman." One really interesting example of the purity politics of the time is the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia, which ended up creating the Magdalen Asylum as a way to "redeem fallen women." And this is a really interesting intersection with mad studies to me--looking at this within the context of mass institutionalization and the age of the asylum, and how the Magdalen Society utilized the tools of the asylum--confinement, isolation, discipline--as a way to attempt to forcibly prevent women from engaging in sex work. And how this was only really possible because of the context of an ableist society where asylums and the tools of pathologization are accepted as an reasonable pathway to "cure" for a wide variety of things, from madness to sex work to poverty. This article goes a lot more in depth to the history of the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia and the Asylum.
After the Page Act, the most major federal legislation around sex work was the Mann Act in 1910 which I think is one of the biggest examples in American history of how sex work criminalization is used as a tactic of social control for a much broader set of populations. The Mann Act is very explicitly racist and the intent of the legislators at the time was very clear, in that the Mann Act essentially categorizes all sex work as illegal sex trafficking and creates this racist myth looking at the "white, pure, innocent girl trafficked into prostitution by immigrants and people of color." and so this act has impacts for SO MANY people beyond just sex workers--this enabled widespread criminalization, and an excuse for increased surveillance, policing, and arrests of men of color based on this myth. The Mann Act is also really connected to the creation of the FBI, actually, because the FBI was created in 1908 and charged with investigating interstate violations of the Mann Act and trying to find this "conspiracy" that didn't exist, and the FBI's enforcement of the Mann Act ended up legitimizing the FBI as a national law enforcement agency essentially investigating anything they labeled as "deviance." so that's an act that still has really widespread implications to this day, in terms of policing of racialized groups alongside the criminalization of sex work. i haven't read this book so can't give a review or recommendation of it, but Policing Sexuality by Jessica R. Pliley is about this.
anyway those are just a few examples i can think of on hand and there's still so much i want to read and learn about the history of sex work and policing in the US so if anyone else has examples or reading recommendations please add on and let me know!!
#asks#sw#sex work history#sex work is work#whatever. can't remember what tags people use for sw stuff on here these days#prison abolition#decriminalize sex work#racism#whorephobia#ableism
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From insensitive questions and jokes made towards street sex workers in 1992, to RuPaul asking queens in the latest episode of Drag Race if they have an Onlyfans as a joke (despite not allowing queens who have them on the show) and outright calling one a "whore", it's clear that RuPaul hasn't lost the whorephobic attitude she's always had.
RuPaul's supposed love for sex worker fashion and learning about our experiences is just appropriation and exploitation.
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#rupaul's drag race#rpdr#plane jane#sexwork#feminism#anti swerf#transgender#lgbtq+#trans#sex work is work#sex worker rights#rupaul#drag race#drag queen#whorephobia#Youtube
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