🚨 #FacialRecognition in public spaces and at our borders treats us all like suspects.

ESWA is among 170+ signatories to a statement led by EDRi and Big Brother Watch that calls on authorities and companies to end all facial recognition surveillance now.

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Begging yall to listen to actual sex workers and trafficking survivors.

So many of these orgs engage in behaviors that are questionable, at best.

'Since late-2021 Mastercard, the world's second largest payment processor, has implemented extremely strict regulations for 'speciality merchants'' - aka sex workers and the platforms they use.'
More on the ACLU 's call to action 👇

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'Even when many of our ‘allies’ think they’re helping, it often becomes more about making them feel comfortable about how much they don’t know, or helping them boost their street cred.'

Georgie Wolf 🐺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ on the best way to be an ally to sex workers 💖

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'We want to platform educators providing valuable knowledge on topics that we’re passionate about and to provide a space where a variety of voices are platformed.'

Australian School of Sexuality is coming to Sydney, find out more from Sai Jaiden Lillith - Sydney 24-28.04 and Eve X 🍎 ✨

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'As we find better ways to talk about the stuff that matters, we swap the old out for the new. Over time, both workers and allies alike are learning better ways to talk about the sex industry.'

Be a better ally with Georgie Wolf 🐺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️'s guide to sw + language

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They did this to sex workers first and no one listened or cared. Maybe they’ll listen now if it means they can’t buy their weed seltzer with a card nytimes.com/2023/07/28/bus…

I really enjoyed writing this for tryst.link - ten points to anyone who gets the title reference!

'...supporting sextech is about more than just championing sex educators and sex toy designers - we need to recognise the value of sex workers too.' - Georgie Wolf 🐺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️

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'Being a sex work feels like being a time traveller, you see the world from unique and unusual eyes.'

We chat to Ava Raleigh Atl + FMTY ✨
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'If your partner needs your sex work to be 100% empowering and fun for you all the time, they need a little perspective.'

Kitty Karlyle ~ Mature Gamer Babe ~ in Denver! gives us the rundown on green flags when dating as a sex worker 💚💚
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The Sound of Freedom depicts evangelicals (who might be Mormon, or born-again Christian) as heroes who rescue kidnapped, trafficked, & abused children.

In the early 2000s in Thailand, Czech anthropologist Tomáš Ryška uncovered a disturbing truth: the predators were missionaries

Not everything is worthy of debate. Much like climate change deniers & flat earthers, SWERFS who bleat absurdities do not deserve to be taken seriously. They should only be met with mockery, ridicule & parody.
Thank you National Ugly Mugs for including my cartoon in your 1st zine!

“Lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in which every adult user of the internet could soon find themself entangled.” theverge.com/2023/8/4/23819…

'KOSA is basically a blank check for extreme right wing attorneys general to bully platforms into suppressing content that they don't like.” trib.al/59e0Fq2

📢new article: Pornhub & Policy

Platform regulation is already complicated. What happens when you throw moral panic & sex-work discrimination in the mix?

proud to work on 🇨🇦 platform governance alongside the brilliant Val Webber Stefanie Duguay [email protected] McKelvey

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“We are standing up not for the rights of adult businesses and creators, but for the rights of adult Texans to access legal content in the privacy of their own home without having to submit to surveillance or propaganda.” -⁦Free Speech Coalition⁩’s Alison Boden techdirt.com/2023/08/04/tex…

'The uncovering of this scandal and the use of “NRPI” bluntly displays the way rich, powerful people see the world and the people who live “below” them in it.'
Irene dives into Succession💸

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'According to Merriam-Webster, acting is “the art or practice of representing a character on a stage or before cameras,” yet, recognition for us within the mainstream industry is null and void.'

New from @gigifonghoe ✨

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