Gracey

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been formally reported to the police over allegations he was involved in the trafficking of a woman to the UK for sex in 2010

I stg i have the best conversations with Uber drivers. I love learning about their home countries, languages they speak, and above all, moaning about the British weather

Is the long tunnel a bomb shelter!?

Baby we made it through!

YES!!! 👏👏

Sorry for giving ya shit 😂

Likely, bsky doesn't help. I read it as my response was disappointing, and you believed essentially that capitalism was worse than rape.

However looking back after you said that, it reads more like sarcasm. My bad. Apologies!

Jesus fucking Christ. No point engaging any further with vitriolic views like that.

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A reminder that people sold sex under communism. It wasn't legal. Sex workers experienced extreme harms such as sexual violence under communism.

If you listen to those who did, you know they were treated even harsher as it was deemed all their needs were met, so they were deserving of harm.

Did you mean to type capitalism is more harmful than rape?

This was a quote from the SWARM statement

What the fuck are they on. Who on earth is comparing this to serious harms that sex eorkers experience like... gangrape, murder, torture, sexual exploitation

People need to get out of political textbooks

"Through failing to meet the very reasonable demands of the workers, Scarlet Letters’ management reproduces the same forms of capitalist exploitation that already contribute to many of the worst harms experienced by sex workers."

God fucking christ. Who signed this off?

The Union is for sex workers, not against them. It was not an internal union dispute.

Imagine releasing a statement against Marin Scarlett and not the third parties who abuse sex workers, but treat them as if they're in the same category

Embarrassment

The lack of self reflection of going "is this acceptable to do?"

Of course not because it's always the same group of people

The irony is, it was the statements released by SWU and SWARM that made me turn even further against them.

Get this right - the union and collective bullied one of their own, released it against community agreement and then fell flat on their face

There was feedback that sex workers who have lived under communism didn't like the "communist" affiliation due to the extreme harm they experienced etc.

Ignored feedback, and continued to exclude many migrant sex workers consequently

Fun fact, Sex Work Union didnt send letters to AdultWork about an extremely violent client in Scotland. It seems they were too busy writing statements about the Scarlett Letters instead

Community, but only for the cult. Only for those who are fucking communists 😂

"Firstly, as a community interest company (CIC), Scarlet Letters is expected to uphold greater financial transparency than a standard business as it ultimately exists for the benefit of the sex work community"

Imagine writing this, despite financial opaqueness from SWARM itself

I spent ages asking for the new "guidelines" I needed to apply for, which suddenly changed

There is no accountability or transparency in SWARM about what is done with community funds, and no recourse either

I also want to make clear I asked SWARM for funding for a sex worker drop in, community led, like Suppers. I eventually got ghosted and offered money for a memorial event, despite telling me this is something they supported

A sex worker was murdered.

They gave money to the booksellers I found out

I also want to say it was absolutely vile for SWARM and the Sex Worker Union to release a statement against Marin Scarlett

I never joined the union, SWARM, Decrim Now or other sex worker led orgs because they act like a cult at times. It's always the same people too. Schoolgirl clique bullies.

I supported the workers of The Scarlett Letter until I listened to the facts, saw the evidence, and actually spoke to other people instead of just sucking up whatever was told to me

Anyway, I look forward to sex workers using their own brain rather than just blindly believing what they're told

It's been 2 years since Israel murdered Hind Rajab. If you have the time, please go to the cinema to watch The Voice of Hind Rajab. It is incredibly upsetting but it goes through the entire situation, with the live recording of Hind. It took several hours to reach her, and the medics also murdered.

My first day back selling sex after a break. Safe to say that the men don't change

All the ICE agents

Imagine writing that 😂

That's what they 2nd amendment was for, right!?

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

We need a regime change to protect democracy and save the people of the US

trying to remember people are working to stop this everywhere

CW: Shooting, murder.

This is an execution in the street by ICE.