missfreudianslit:

missfreudianslit:

missfreudianslit:

seriously, I’ve seen a really great, diverse population out of the tumblr sex worker community 

• street-based sex workers who blog on tumblr from their phone
• workers in under-developed countries where you can see they live in less-than-perfect conditions but are still producing content
• workers blogging about their struggles with addiction with a community that welcomes them instead of shuns them (still happens but we are all trying I think)
• sexual assault victims that reclaim their power over sex their past through sex work
• mothers/parents who can only work from home
• workers who have physical and/or mental problems that keep them from holding vanilla jobs

you can’t tell the “priv’d” sex workers from the non-privileged sex workers because part of our job is the sale of an illusion. We put up a bedspread on the wall in the corner of the room for our camming stations or put up lovely pics on our escorting ads but you don’t have to be priv’d to be able to make yourself look nice for the customers. Someone with a physical handicap can be anyone on a phone sex call. Someone with a tiring disability can still spend all their spoons for 3 hours on cam to make rent for the week. A white cis escort who has ads online may appear to be priv’d but you don’t know anything about her. 

And that’s the problem. SWERFs think that if we can access the internet, we’re no longer the “whores” who needs saving, the poor victims who need a voice. When we start talking for ourselves, suddenly we’re “all the priv’d to talk” for the community. [x]

ugh I feel like a fool for not making this more obvious but the community is obviously FILLED with trans/queer/NB WoC/PoC and to assume that every online sex worker you’re interacting with is some cishet white ~courtesan~ is the problem with SWERFs and their arguments

This is going around again, I love it