Stephanie Kaylor

The video in the article clearly shows sex workers getting put in handcuffs and led away in police cars, yet they still use the grotesque euphemism of "rescue" when this happens.

And many people who now scream about ICE raids accept this as being "normal" when it's anything but.

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Donate to the BSWC We love it when people donate to the BSWC. We are a philanthropic arts project seeking to amplify the voices of Black Sex Workers.

If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations

thebswc.org/donate/

Also, and likely separately, a California attorney to help with a closed title ix case in which witness statements were not logged, various procedural errors etc

I’m looking for help finding an attorney in California familiar with FERPA who could help with a case of the university accidentally leaking my medical records (related to my pregnancy) to another individual

“Labor & Art” in Homestead, Pennsylvania | LAWCHA I am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and working-class history.

Ron Schatz spoke to curators Joe and Delsa White when visiting their ongoing "Labor & Art" exhibit at the Bost Building in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Learn more about it at LaborOnline.
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I honestly don't want to have any conversation that doesn't start from accepting that hex work is morally neutral & that hex workers deserve to live free from incarceration and policing.

Let's also take a minute to acknowledge that we can't even talk about it in our most-used public spaces (here)

I appreciate “morally neutral!” I get an ick seeing pleas for our humanity hinging on the idea that we are all sweet angels, even though I get it and it’s obviously in response to a violent ideology. I’m not goody goody just because I’m precarious, and we don’t need to be because everything you said

Someone @ me when this place becomes a platform for sickos and cyberbullying ideological enemies and not just vote blue / “# poetry community” posting

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“sex workers are smart sex workers are kind sex workers are talented sex workers aren’t all mentally ill” starting my own dumb whore brigade to fight for our rights too

I live here

who are some younger sex worker poets writing (at least a little bit) in relation to their labor? Every now and then I come across zoomers I haven’t heard of with publishers I haven’t heard of and I want to do pay more attention to what they’re building

You and me both, there may be something in the air!

Hudson Valley next week!

Omg I didn’t know this—signing up when I’m back at my laptop !

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“Young activist” is a crazy was to say Nazi

They can't even tell it like it is and this is the party that is supposed to protect us?!!! The party we're supposed to vote for and support?!

"It is difficult to know what to make of this relentless positivity. Making money is obviously important and can be liberating, but it's hard not to feel sceptical about how empowering the work really is, and doubtful of the wisdom of embarking on it as a career."

Throughout the article she speaks to creator after creator who tell her that while the work is hard, they like it and it offers them opportunities and revenue that other work doesn't.

Her conclusion? This career is a bad idea.

giving myself a screen time limit on google docs so I stop wasting hours obsessing over line breaks

Obviously there are so many exceptions to every rule, but the fact that they’re so refreshingly rare to come across in the works of writers my age—

smolbeanery really has destroyed a generation of writers

Natalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s Poetry What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live? These are the qu…

Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...

it’s giving

After years of (legitimate/health) delays, I received initial proofs with comments from my poetry publisher for the first 2 books of The Daybooks (which is 4 books long). Exciting!!! Maybe they will come out soon. I’ve kind of refocused my energy to other projects so I don’t get impatient.

This is a really fantastic piece!

Thank you!

“According to O'Donnell, patrol members approach a woman and politely identify themselves.
‘The usual pattern is, if she's a prostitute, she gets very angry very quickly,’ he said. ‘She'll either yell at us or walk away.’”

From a 1984 article on sex workers resistance to a citizens patrol group