Imagine if all sex work opponents/researchers felt this way.
I am just so done with women who put down sex workers.
Shut the fuck up. YOU are holding the feminist movement back. Move out of the way.
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"To author is to have the power to originate, to name. Women who seek to produce natural knowledge, like our sisters who learned to write and speak, also must decipher a text, the book of nature, authored legitimately by men."
— Donna Haraway (author of A Cyborg Manifesto), In the Beginning was the Word: The Genesis of Biological Theory
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If you “reduce the demand” you will not reduce sex workers real need for the money, you will just make their lives impossible.
Feminist Fun Facts:
“Pro-sex work” and “anti-raunch culture” are not incompatible ideologies.
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We want to save you! And if you don’t appreciate it, you will be punished!
One of the best videos on sex work you will watch: an interview with Swedish sex worker activist Pye Jakobsson.
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Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers’ surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.
You can watch the whole documentary on Youtube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
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Fun fact about me, related to this film: I worked for nearly five years at the Foundation for Research on STD’s (FROST’D), the organization founded by Dr. Joyce Wallace, Julia Query’s mother. At that time, FROST’D provided HIV prevention, medical, and social services to street-based sex workers, active drug users, the homeless, and men who have sex with men. The poster for the film was hanging in the entryway of the Primary Care Clinic operated by FROST’D.
"Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade."
— Interview with Donna Haraway
“Production of the female cyborgs goes beyond a reflection of their creator. They embody the visibility of hybrid identities and the organic symbiosis of human and machine. Female cyborgs contest and retaliate against patriarchal values and the colonial mentality of fixed margins.
In relation to sexual politics, female cyborgs challenge patriarchal values of reproduction, labor and pleasure. Cyborg modifications enabled them to adapt to the human environment emanating male hysteria towards female cyborg skills of self-reproduction (cybernetic re-enhancements). They also have the superior capability of providing physical pleasure and pain.”
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested–for a while at least. The “righteous” cry against the white slave traffic is such a toy. It serves to amuse the people for a little while, and it will help to create a few more fat political jobs–parasites who stalk about the world as inspectors, investigators, detectives, and so forth. What is really the cause of the trade in women? Not merely white women, but yellow and black women as well. Exploitation, of course; the merciless Moloch of capitalism that fattens on underpaid labor [… T]hese girls feel, “Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day?” Naturally our reformers say nothing about this cause. They know it well enough, but it doesn’t pay to say anything about it. It is much more profitable to play the Pharisee, to pretend an outraged morality, than to go to the bottom of things.”
From feminist icon Emma Goldman’s bad-ass 1917 response to “white slavery” hysteria.
"— Quote of the Week | Tits and Sass
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"A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction. The international women’s movements have constructed “women’s experience,” as well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective object. This experience is a fiction and fact of the most crucial, political kind. Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imaginative apprehension, of oppression, and so of possibility. The cyborg is a matter of fiction and lived experience that changes what counts as women’s experience in the late twentieth century. This is a struggle over life and death, but the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion."
— Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980’s”
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