#former sex worker

[trans-axolotl]

today is international whores' day!

"On June 2nd, 1975, over 100 sex workers began an 8-day occupation at the Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France. They demanded the end of fines, stigma, police harassment, and the release of ten sex workers who had been imprisoned a few days earlier for soliciting. This occupation was initiated to call attention to the increasing violence against sex workers perpetrated by the French government. It was widely reported both nationally and internationally, receiving support from labor and feminist organizations alike. On June 10th, after 8 days of occupation, the police forcibly removed the women from the church, but their impact marked the start of an international movement." - History, IWD LA

today (and every day) is a good day to learn from sex workers about decriminalization, our activism, and how to support us.

check out the Sex Work Syllabus from the Support Ho(s)e Collective and donate to their ongoing mutual aid campaigns.

read Girls do what they have to do to survive by the Young Women's Empowerment Project.

Donate to SWOP Behind Bars to support incarcerated sex workers.

get involved in harm reduction and decrim activism in your local community.

support the sex workers in your life!!

[ufowiki]

honestly i hate that sex work is being labelled as "easy money" and "anybody can do it" (ESPECIALLY on tiktok). no, you're not going to get thousands of dollars a month just for selling your feet pics. no, you're not gonna get a sugar daddy/mommy without doing anything sexual. your mental health will plummet, you will be reduced to nothing but an object, and you have to deal with threats of violence constantly

[eddiestommy]

also, i've been calling it "daddy kink" for the sake of conversation too but that was barely it, that was a pretty vanilla joke considering how daddy and kitten have entered the general public's vocabulary as fun pet names they call their partners when they want to be a little "spicy" about their sex lives and y'all are throwing a tantrum about it

some of you couldn't handle what an actual daddy kink means and involve with those puritanical views on sex you apparently have. none of you could handle *any* real life kink, to be honest

[butchdykekondraki]

anyway its actually so fucking evil that mary magdalene didnt have tumblr. she wouldve done numbers on here

[onewholivesinloops]

those two shots from the first episode of oniakashi showing satoko's reflection as her witch self, as she observes rena spacing out because of her home problems, and the second shot where she's presumably thinking of how she's going to inject rena at the nurse office struck me. satoko is so alienated from her surroundings after looping through her trauma for so long that it feels to her like everything is a 'dream'. she's so emotionally disconnected from the people she cares about as if she were separated by a glass wall. it's a literal interpretation of depersonalization/derealization.

satoko has now entirely compartmentalized the idea that she's doing anything bad. she's completely distanced herself from the violence she's committing towards herself and others. this is no different from a club game or one of her many traps. nothing is real including her friends until she's happy. until the reality wherein she can survive is within her grasp. everything else is a delusion and her friends are just pieces on the gameboard.

still, satoko gives rena the grief and remorse she doesn't give to mion, because rena has always fought against fate - the same fate satoko believes mion has not had to suffer through before that she and rena always do. satoko makes rena much like herself, that way they can be together in this.

rena's reaction to rina and her feeling that she has to kill rina in oniakashi is a parallel to satoko's reaction to rika and st. lucia as a whole. it's this sense that no matter what nothing can get better unless you commit an absolute. a certainty. others will not change or be better if you talk things out with them. satoko sympathizes with rena because she sees much of herself in rena.

it's different with mion whom satoko injects out of curiosity, the curiosity to see something she's never seen before playing out, but that's also an expression of her resentment towards mion - resentment because mion never had to go through what she and the others did while also being complicit in her ostracization and othering as a sonozaki in her mind. there's jealousy there. a bite of biterness. it's why satoko loses all the sympathy she had for rena when she's dealing with mion. satoko feels guilt over making rena go L5, but all of this is goes out of the window when it comes to mion. that's purposeful.

every fragment satoko weaves with eua is just another duel!!!!!!

duels are all about making Duelists and Brides relive anthy and akio's problems. it validates akio's horrible solution as akio is looking for the power to reinforce his worldview that enables his abuse of women and anthy. eua is the same. eua has turned her despair + loneliness into boredom and she sees the world as a stage to relieve that, but she only counts on the cruelty of the children of man. the savagery of the loops reinforces her worldview and validates her manipulation of satoko and her perspective of people.

satoko and anthy are also making them relive their trauma in a similar way, but they're more justified. satoko and anthy are trying to escape, find love, destroy themselves and their loved one. [REDACTED] from umineko is like them too btw.

the akashis are all about the thematics and parallels. gousotsu as a whole is. very utena!

[dear-indies]

are you really recommending mia khalifa as a faceclaim? idk, it seems a strange choice.

shut up and grow up.

[lugarn]

Doing sex work in Playboyy doesn't automatically tell you anything about a character other than that they do sex work. It doesn't tell you about their personality, their morality, their relationship to sex, what they want or don't want out of a relationship, why they're doing sex work. So it's beautiful, the show doesn't tell you more than if they were working in retail.

Yeah, they all need money. But it doesn't tell you anything about how we're supposed to morally interpret them, just their situation. 

The sex workers are presented as people doing low-wage work who treat their job as a job and not a divine punishment or a tribulation they have to endure any more than your average retail work. They're not more damaged by their jobs than someone who had a rough day cashiering.

It also critically shows sex work as an option they chose to go after independently, a choice that was intentional and not out of desperation. They're not doomed by the narrative; they're choosing to make money with sex because they don't hate it and the money isn't terrible. Without the lens of tragedy normally applied to sex work, that's why we all did and do it. Why else does anyone choose a job? 

I've never seen a show do this before and it's really fucking cool. (thank you @technicallyverycowboy for helping me work out my thoughts on this and word them succinctly!)

[genderfluidloki]

So I'm writing post-BG3 fanfic about Resilience and Astarion, and Yenna who they've adopted.

I am slowly chipping away at editing the first chapter, but I have uh... been focusing a lot more on making them and their house in the Sims...

[inniave]

ABOVE ALL THINGS

SUFFERING,

GLORIFIED

[ufowiki]

ppl that think sex work is just "easy money" will always piss me off. also hate those ppl on tiktok that will be like "i only sell my feet pics and get thousands of dollars!" STOP LYINGGGG

[pfhwrittes]

Send this ask to 3 other blogs: What’s the top 3 reasons you think the average tumblr user would block you?

anon you need to know i let out the ugliest laugh at this ask. let me just skim through the hate i've got in my askbox recently.

i'm vocal about being supportive of sex workers and former sex workers as a former sex worker myself.

i'm transmasc/non-binary and i write female!reader fics.

i read, reblog and support dark fic writers.

how's that? good enough to make a call out post?

[becoach-a]

if beard hears you disrespect sex workers, he’s coming for your kneecaps btw.

[gatorlovebot]

anon i see your message and appreciate you taking the time to send it. it brought up a lot of feelings within me so i’ll respond to it when i’m in a better headspace.

[aerial-jace]

It's gonna be really... interesting whenever Hazbin Hotel finally premieres later this year. Whether the show turns out good or bad, by design it's going to be forced to take a stance on a myriad thorny issues surrounding ethics, Christian theology and morality, redemption arcs, and so much more. Even if they fumble the execution of it massively I feel like that alone is a strong reason to watch the show. Of course I'm hoping it's good but if it isn't I don't think I'll be dissuaded from sticking with it.

[lugarn]

i will have some deeper playboyy thoughts at some point, but i gotta say this: the show started in the place of doing things with sex work in TV format that i've never seen done before! for me that meant i was primed to be disappointed because so many BLs that begin super promisingly end in disappointment.

but every week now new layers are added and every week playboyy commits and re-commits to their characters. all of the characters make real decisions that have stakes and choose to take or not take actions rather than being dragged along by the narrative.

sex workers don't get this treatment in media. we don't get to be complex, we don't get to be nuanced, and when there are stories like playboyy that involve sexual violence we are very rarely the ones who get empathy from the narrative itself.

we get pity, not a genuine attempt at understanding.

playboyy doesn't pity sex workers. it doesn't romanticize us like a lot of media about sex work tends to when it depicts us positively. it just shows each of the sex workers as whole people in the exact same way it shows the rich boys.

i fucking love it.

[underscore-jude]

will never not be angry about how they treated brody