In 2023, Ashley D. Farmer and I started a Freedom School to teach student activists how to archive their activism and control their own narrative. This fall, the freedom school is back and open to ALL! FREE and OPEN to the public but it does require registration.

From the late 1990s through the present, worker advocates have documented a resurgence in the “white slave” moral panic. It is important to note, however, that this ideology remained present throughout the 20th century.

As one example, per this 1973 article, Gail Sheeny (who would later become a celebrated writer and Hillary Clinton biographer) describes the horrors of college educated white women turning to commercial sex trades (1)

The racial panic isn't subtle. Sheeny states: “Prostitutes want and need the control pimps enforce over them… they are generally young women of low self-esteem… [who] have an illegitimate child who is held black and half white.” (1)

I love høøker histøry so much. ❤️‍🔥

“What do cops who are now working in vice do the rest of the year? …Why were arrests of prostitute ‘suspects’ more brutal than usual? (one woman, arrested, jumped into the East River.) What was the percentage of Third World women arrested during the sweeps?”

Nevada is often held up as an example of the problem of legalization: workers can’t set their hours, can’t work with certain criminal records or if undocumented, and must fit management’s demographical preferences. Legalization has also been used in the work of nation building:

In a comical effort to combat draft dodging in 1942, Surgeon General Thomas Parran warned that “prostitutes were guaranteeing to give a venereal disease to men seeking to dodge the draft.”

Despite military efforts to detain US sex workers (and promiscuous women more broadly) during the mid-century, sexologists of the time argued that criminalization was not the answer; rather than worker- or rights-centered, however, they did so in the name of nation.

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