Q: âA psychiatrist recently said youâre nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys.â
JOHN: âHe must be blind.â
RINGO: (shaking like Elvis) âItâs not true!! Itâs not true!!â
JOHN: (dances like Elvis)
Content warningâthe following contains descriptions of extreme injuries and rape suffered by two sex workers due to a campaign of violence by an abusive client, as well as an account of child abuse.
Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks are veterans and heroines of the sex workersâ rights movement.  As a teen, Brenneman suffered years of of brutal abuse in which she was coerced into working as a professional submissive. In the early aughts, Jill made an amazing conversion frommembership in the prohibitionist movement to sex workersâ rights activism. She set up SWOP-EASTfrom the remains of an anti sex work organization sheâd led. SWOP-EAST grew to be one of the most vital sex workersâ rights organizations of the era. Jill was also a frequent contributor to early sex workersâ rights blogs like Bound Not Gagged.
Amanda Brooks is the acclaimed author of The Internet Escortâs Handbook series, the first one of which she published in 2006. They served as an important resource for escorts advertising online back when there were few other how-to sources on the topic. She was also one of the earliest escort bloggers starting in 2005, writing entries brimming with eloquence and common sense at After Hours.
The two fell off the map recently.
When they returned, we were shocked to read Brooksâ blog post about what theyâd endured: a campaign of terror by one of Brooksâ clients, affluent lawyer Percy LaWayne Isgitt. IsgittâBrenneman and Brooks call him âPigââcaused both Brenneman and Brooks severe brain injuries when his arrogance and negligence piloting a plane the three of them were in led to a catastrophic âhard landing.â Despite the fact that Brooks was clearly incapacitated and near death, Brenneman had to browbeat Pig into taking her to the hospital the next day. Once Brooks was checked in, Pig fraudulently signed in as her relative and attempted to control her treatment. Despite her still severely injured state, Brooks continued to see Pig as a client for two sessions after her hospitalization, in desperate need of money to pay for medical bills. When she finally tried to break ties with him, he hired people to make threatening phone calls to both women. In response, Brooks went into hiding, so Pig sent men to stalk, rape, and beat Brenneman on a number of occasions, trying to discover Brooksâ location. Neither the police, nor the many medical facilities that misdiagnosed them along the way, nor the personal injury lawyer they hired were any help to the two women against a deranged, abusive man with wealth and social capital.
The injuries Brenneman suffered from the plane crash combined with the injuries she sustained from the attacks led to the fatal exacerbation of her previous medical conditions. Her doctors have told her she has very little time left to live.
This story illustrates the insidious way institutions empower abusers to commit violence against sex workers. The only people they can often rely on in these situations are other sex workers. You can read the original account here and donate to their Giftrocket account using this email address: [email protected]. Donations will be shared equally between them to cover their respective medical costs.
Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks are veterans and heroines of the sex workersâ rights movement. Â
As a teen, Brenneman suffered years of of brutal abuse in which she was coerced into working as a professional submissive. In the early aughts, Jill made an amazing conversion from membership in the prohibitionist movement to sex workersâ rights activism.Â
She set up SWOP-EAST from the remains of an anti sex work organization sheâd led. SWOP-EAST grew to be one of the most vital sex workersâ rights organizations of the era.Â
Brenneman was also a frequent contributor to early sex workersâ rights blogs like Bound Not Gagged.
She was halfway to the finish line before the rest of the swimmers were still headed for their last turn. Ledecky finished a whopping 11.5 seconds before the silver medalist, finished only 6 seconds after the last person started the last 50m, and finished just under 2 seconds ahead of the World Record (which I am pretty sure she set).
For those playing along at home, her time beat the menâs WR before 1976 and was only 28 seconds off the menâs WR for the 800m. Sheâs also the first woman to sweep the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle in 48 years.
The video of Johnny Depp being violent and breaking cabinets was leaked . Itâs quite evident he is capable of what sheâs claiming and yet people are still defending him . People are still blaming her for recording it . If she has no evidence , youâd call her a liar. If she had evidence like this , sheâs labelled as conniving snake ? No matter what Amber is being treated as the villain here and itâs disgusting .Just because he is quiet in his interviews doesnât mean he is not capable of the alleged DV. This is the same guy who defended child rapist Roman Polanski .Just because he was in your favourite movies doesnât give him a pass . Just because he was sexiest man alive doesnât give him a pass .
NOTE: I used the word âAllegedâ and âClaims â. He is still not guilty until proven otherwise but Iâm not cool with the way people are defending him and publicly crucifying her just based on his popularity and looks .
i havent shaved my legs in a really long time and while i was babysitting my skirt edged up a bit and the seven year old i was watching said âew you should shave that hairs not supposed to be thereâ and i said âwell if its not supposed to be there then why does it grow there?â and he was really silent for a long time and then finally said âlets watch sonic the hedgehogâ
tumors grow, are they supposed to be there?
its called âevolutionâ, just because its there doesnt mean its useful or wanted.
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