I’ve just seen a news story about 3 women aged 38-57 who are being prosecuted for brothel keeping. So clearly three workers working together for safety

“Chemsex is a very secretive world.” 💊

GAY TIMES finds that up to 1000 people have died of possible chemsex-related harms in the past decade, so why are police attending callouts instead of ambulances?

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definitely don’t talk to the guardian about doing diy hrt. but also maybe don’t talk to any mainstream journalists about trans stuff right now bc in this political environment, you becoming a weapon for the media is much more likely than the media becoming a platform for you.

As the PIC, we condemn and express our concern over the recent - and historical - police targeting of Asian massage parlors and the disparaging media coverage of these workspaces in the Netherlands.

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'We need financial authorities to stop conflating sex and sex work with criminality, and reinforcing the isolation and marginalisation already facing sex workers.'

Excluding sex workers from bank accounts excludes them society. Banks must end policies driven by stigma.

In which a spectator ‘journalist’ is very creepy about a random academic and then details his encounter with a hooker that he treats like absolute shit - racially fetishises her, bargains her price down, tries to pay via bank transfer

“I convinced her to be dependent on me, unable to leave without huge consequence, because I am selfless and not at all controlling”

One thing about financial abusers is that they LOVE to claim victimhood by insisting that the financial dependence they forced onto someone through manipulation and abuse was actually THEM being exploited. I controlled her income, how could she leave when I supported her ?!

like if you dream of labour so much maybe you should stop dreaming about it and go do arrestee support or feed your community or do care work. i can’t take anyone who supposedly loves work but only in glamourised, traditionally masculine contexts seriously.

it’s always men romanticising the ‘labour of the revolution’ and it’s always a quietly misogynistic analysis of labour. revolutionary work is already happening, but it doesn’t get glorified like this because it’s disproportionately women doing it and it’s undervalued & ignored.

Who books for UK Black Pride?
I want to create a UK Funky House mix.
Do you mind, Go, moving too fast, bloody groove etc so I can perform it infront of people who *get* the songs 😭🤣

I hope there's at least a few more years of activism, anger, education, policy changing & community building left in me at least. It's becoming harder every year!

I FOUND IT
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Once I was tweeting something about a church and I got an account like Nicole405938 in my replies telling me where to find her nudes, and one of my followers replied with 'Nicole, please, he's a man of God' and I laughed so hard that it now lives rent free in my brain.

anyway, the SWOP Behind Bars hotline is an amazing resource if you aren’t familiar, offering workers support for any issues you may be confronting (not just legal emergencies): 1-877-776-2004 ❤️

Today, we dropped a 30ft banner to say fuck the Cass Review. Trans youth know what they want and need. It’s not being pathologized or patronised. It's accessing the support they deserve, whether safe housing, education or puberty blockers.

⚠️ Adult content is being sanitized and squeezed off the internet in a way that it never has been before.

You should care, you should talk about it, you should know why it is different now and a big deal.

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This is part of the reason why orgs like Black Sex Workers have been arguing that decrim is important but by no means enough—whorephobia runs so much deeper in the state apparatus

I’m genuinely starting to believe that were I to one day have children, an ex partner I haven’t spoken to in years would call CPS on me and I hate that this has been a legitimate concern for a number of sex workers I have known

Sex workers are such inventive and resourceful content creators, this is the sort of thing we should be able to put on a CV