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Whoring in hotels.
So the other day, I was in a cab that smelled like piss dry-shaving my legs. (True story.) I was on the way to an outcall at a hotel to meet a client. I hate outcalls. It’s not just because the kind of work I do requires large, heavy, conspicuous tools. Nothing says I’m doing [...]
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Tags: experiences, sex work
Speaking of privilege…
I forgot to update about this! That thing I do about how no one wants to listen because I’m an uncredentialed whore? Well, now I can only bitch about no one wanting to listen because I’m a whore. Woo! for increasing my privilege. And, you know, achieving something super important to me personally after working [...]
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The problem with “privilege”
I’ve been grappling with this a lot lately. On one hand, those most involved in sex workers’ rights are those with more privilege (economically, educationally, racially), while on the other hand, privilege is used to discount their arguments and experiences. I’m struggling to find a way that acknowledges my privilege without completely negating what I [...]
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Tags: abolition, crazy, empowerment, exploitation, mental illness, privilege, sex work
Horrible idea?
Okay on the scale of dinner with Catherine MacKinnon to buying a new sex toy, how horrible or awesome would a post on Feministing about whorephobia be?
I keep thinking about this because I find that site incredibly whorephobic and completely dissing of whores in general. I’ve tried to post before, but my post got stuck [...]
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Tags: blogs, feminism, feminists, whorephobia
I just wanted to link to this fabulous post by Snowdrop about the problems with these models, especially as Illinois considers this.
As a whore, I just have to say, as happy as I am about not risking a prostitution arrest, the kind of work I do still puts me at risk of an assault charge [...]
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Tags: abolition, end demand, law, sex work
I first read Susan Bordo when I was thinking about recovery, trying to make sense of my own experiences. Unbearable Weight put into words the seething rage I felt over my treatment at the hands of others. First, I developed a (biologically rooted) illness that was a manifestation of the expectations of my body, then [...]
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Tags: crazy, feminism, mental illness, sexism, women
So-called feminists.
You know, I have to say, I’m getting really fucking sick of being told by so-called feminists that I don’t know shit about my own experiences. When I talk about sex work and my experiences, I’m not trying to generalize, I’m not trying to downplay that I have privilege, I’m not trying to act that [...]
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Tags: abolition, feminism, sex work
Rio ‘16.
All right, I’ll say it. Chicago didn’t get the Olympic bid and I am happy about it. The traffic and infrastructure problems would have been a nightmare to deal with. My business would get fucked up. Not to mention that this city can’t afford the games and they’d kick out all the poor black people [...]
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Tags: olympics, sex work
I am a crazy person.
I have been dropping a lot of balls lately. I don’t mean to be. I feel awful about it. And yet I am struck by the salience of stigma in why I can’t explain to others why exactly I’m sucking at life right now.
When I had surgery recently, it was totally cool for me to [...]
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Tags: medication, mental illness, stigma
Place holder.
I’m going to write about women and mental illness, a long, involved post, but I can’t right now. I need to get my own head on straight and not write “emotionally” (which, that I even have to do that, pisses me off). In the mean time, check out Amber’s awesome post.
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