[thepeacockangel]

Being reminded that I’m almost certainly going to spend the rest of my life in a society where I have to deal with being on the wrong side of patriarchy on a daily basis is really depressing. It’s just like “Oh right, to a lot of people I’m not really quite a person, thanks for reminding me.”

[spaztastic1991-deactivated20161]

Why are you putting yourself down? 

[thepeacockangel]

I’m not, I’m awesome.  I’m complaining about the way society treats me.

[dangercunt]

that's such an inane response lmao. who tf thinks that being exhausted by oppression is "putting yourself down"

[blackmodel]

yall want replies but we’ve had messenger pigeons since the 1800’s???

[thebobaemoji]

The last messenger pigeon died in 1914

[blackmodel]

i just saw a pigeon today?? put a letter on it

[breebunn-deactivated20180414]

da path to happiness involves transforming into an anime character

[dangercunt]

that haircut is so so flawless on you

[lilitharcane-blog]

You wouldn’t go up to an independent small scale farmer and start lecturing them for being selfish for not wanting to end demand of the sale of produce just because some large corporations are charged with human trafficking would you?

You wouldn’t go up to a seamstress at a local dry cleaning and alterations business and tell her we need to abolish the entire garment industry rather than advocate for more rights on their behalf, just because many articles of clothing are manufactured under forced labor?

So why is only with sex workers you feel the need to tell they’re being selfish for caring about not taking away their jobs, or advocating for their rights? Why is it only sex workers you feel the need to inform of their so called “privilege” when they disagree with you? 

I hope, in some of your cases, you were simply misinformed by the radical feminists and fundamentalist christians who have much more power and influence over legislature or discussion over these issues. And I hope you change your views, because if not, you absolutely do not care about victims of human trafficking; you just hate sex workers.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Hey sex workers!

I want to make a master post of your favourite sex worker books, from trashy memoir to labour theory! Please add on and I’ll keep editing this post to include additions.

_______________ Indecent (except for the epilogue) Flesh for Fantasy-ed Kate Frank, Merri Lisa Johnson, R Danielle Egan Making Work, Making Trouble -Deborah R Brock Playing the Whore -Melissa Gira Grant G-Strings and Sympathy - Kate Frank In My Skin - Kate Holden How to Make Love Like a Porn Star - Jenna Jameson Concertina - Susan Winemaker Call Me Sasha - Geena Leigh

Callgirl by Jeanette Angell

Prostitutes: Our Life ed by Claude Jaget

Back issues of $pread Magazine (a collection is upcoming! TAS will be interviewing Eliyanna Kaiser, one of the founding editors)

All four volumes of Prose and Lore The Encyclopedia of Sex Work and Prostitution (now scanned online for free) The Pleasure’s All Mine by Joan Kelly (v. weird pro sub memoir, not much on s work as labor but extremely compelling) Honey, Honey, Miss Thang ed by Leon Pettiway ( Pettiway collects oral histories of black drug using trans women street workers in his city) The Feminist Porn Book Working by Dolores French (overlooked but essential!!! Memoir abt sex working her way across the world by early sex workers’ rights activist) Tricks and Treats ed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Working Sex ed by Annie Oakley The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs Mcneil Workin It ed by Leon Pettiway (Pettiway collects oral histories by cis women drug using street workers/informal sex workers in his city) Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R Delany (scope is wider than just swork, but this is an important read) Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy (plus City of Night) Sex At The Margins by Laura Agustin I’ve Got To Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work In Turn Of The Century Chicago Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brian

“Whore Carnival” ed Shannon Bell (is a bunch of interviews and art of mostly Canadian sex workers in the early nineties.  It’s cheesy and weird and delightful, and oh so very nineties.

I just started “God’s Callgirl” by Carla Van Raay today, but so far so good.

Must add Erika Langley’s _The Lusty Lady_;

Norma Jean Almodovar’s _Cop to Call Girl_;

Annie Sprinkle’s _Post-Porn Modernist_.

wornsmooth: Probably my favorite is Danielle Willis’s writing (a lot of it is here:http://www.languageisavirus.com/danielle_willis/ also check the #danielle willistag)

The butch perspective on their femme sex worker partners in both Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Lynn Breedlove’s Godspeed (spoilers: it’s not particularly nuanced in either case, even though the books are set 30 years apart). 

Also Luke Davies’ Candy for the economics/tensions of a drug using couple where the woman brings home the majority of the money because she’s a sex worker.

Heather Lewis’s Notice, because I want everyone to love her work (though House Rules is probably the more readable book).  Caty Simon’s essay is required co-reading

I’m currently reading (i.e. I started reading them at some point in the past and haven’t given up on them yet):

David Henry Sterry’s Chicken — not that you always need to get a man’s point of view, but so many of the arguments about sex work are so gendered, it’s interesting to see how it plays out with the genders reversed

Colette’s La Vagabonde — because, historical

I’m still working my way through Captive Genders (ed. by Nat Smith and Eric A Stanley).  I mostly bought it for the piece on pre-Stonewall activism in the SF Tenderloin.

marginalite: Oh, yeah, I was going to put _Notice_ and _Captive Genders_ in there, but I feel like I’ve talked about them too much lately as is. And _Chicken_ is one of the worst/best memoirs ever. Also, I’ve wanted to read both the Collette and _Candy_ forever—gotta start working harder on getting a copy of the latter, the film is one of my favorite bad 90s movies, not to start a theme, here.

Good connection re: _Stone Butch Blues_ and _Godspeed_, the butch perspectives are so alike in both. Someone should write a paper.

clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead:

I haven’t seen these added, so ALL of Doezema and Kempadoo’s work on trafficking and sex worker organising in the third world:

Global Sex Workers

Sex Work and Trafficking Revisited

And of course The Comforts of Home by Luise White

Sex Work and Sex Workers ed Dark and Refinetti

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I have so many additions to make to this but am so sleepy rn!

Definitely domestic minor sex trafficking by Alix Lutnick Policing Sexuality Entry Denied Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters–ESSENTIAL

If you reblog and add, I will keep the original post updated and edited so that everyone can keep up!

[sizvideos]

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[robobuddies]

@planecrackers

[skeletosrex]

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[dangercunt]

@drunkasadog

[blindbee]

[avodaco]

me when i get my student loan

[g8dtier]

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

[strikercorbie]

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

[nonespark-blog]

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

[carrionbeast]

extremely lucky cat

[ladynorbert]

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

[sweet-cherry-fairy-deactivated2]

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

[allthenamesilikearetaken]

in case anyones interested in the other versions

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[mmusclechan]

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

[winjennster]

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

[treeoflife2011]

petition for straight white boys to not be allowed to pursue a film major at any college anywhere for the next 50 years or ever

[jkitwasreal-blog]

petition for people to realize what the word equality actually means

[treeoflife2011]

who said i was going for equality

[the-redhead-princess]

Ok but jokes like this aren’t cute or edgy, all they do is make real feminists look bad and turn us into a joke

[treeoflife2011]

who said this was a joke

[officialjiggly]

Everyone who doesn’t have their reads on are fake af

[empressvalora]

I am so tired of people throwing survivors of trauma under the bus when they defend sex workers. So what if some of us ARE dealing with traumatic pasts that may involve sexual abuse? Does that mean we’re not allowed to grow up and enjoy work that has a sexual aspect? Should we also shun sex of any kind? Are we not allowed to masturbate either because that’s just too traumatic? Why do we have to defend sex workers by assuring everyone that we’re not all damaged goods? Every time someone makes a post/tweet/blog/whatever about how sex workers aren’t all drug addicts or CSA survivors you’re just shitting on the sex workers who ARE those things. 

I survived heinous treatment as a child at the hands of too many adults and other kids. I’m not going to go into details, because that’s not anyone’s business and I don’t owe anyone gory details about how shitty my family and upbringing were, but that doesn’t make me a less worthy sex worker. It doesn’t make me bad at my job. I wasn’t driven into sex work because I’m damaged, but I DO have a past that many people might think lead me to where I am today. When you defend yourself by assuring everyone that you had a happy family growing up and chose sex work just cause you like it so much, you are being a dickhead to people with traumatic pasts. So stop it.

Honestly, I think survivors of trauma MAY seek jobs like sex work out because WE KNOW WHAT’S ACTUALLY DEGRADING. Being abused is degrading. Being treated like garbage by the people who are supposed to love and protect you the most is degrading. Being told that you’re CHOICE to do sex work is actually just an inevitable conclusion to a shitty abusive past is degrading. You know what isn’t degrading? Making friends, laughing, having fun, masturbating, and getting PAID for the pleasure. Least degrading job I’ve ever had.

So stop throwing us under the bus. There are sex workers who have lived through hell. There are sex workers currently using SW to get out of abusive situations. There are sex workers who are dealing with fresh trauma that happened DURING their time as a SWer. We are all valid. We are all doing this job for one reason or another and none is more worthy of respect or dignity than another.

In the future, if you want to defend sex workers, don’t do it by throwing the “undesirables” to the wolves. We’re here, we see you acting shitty, and we are judging you for it.

[dangercunt]

Me, trying to open up to my friends: I feel sad

Them: aw :(

Me: okay I'm never doing that again

[mysharona1987]

[whenmoments]

when you think you have life all figure out  

[tyzenmaster8]

This breaks my heart

[brokendildo]

can someone call the police he’s fallen and he can’t get up

[dangercunt]

@worldwide-glitteracy NOOOO

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[worldwide-glitteracy]

@dangercunt

[pagetbrewstar]

me: *watches criminal minds for 9 hours* anything: *makes a noise* me: I’m looking for a white male between the ages of 25-45 probably a loner probably most definitely hates women probably drives a red late model dodge truck probably lives alone his moms name is Helen and his favorite color skittles are the red ones

[ovadrive]

[mormonfacts-deactivated20190208]

[fluffmugger]

every time I see this my grip on sanity gets just that little bit slimmer

[unisex-futures]

@jeoff

[jeoff-deactivated20170909]

look at this man go tho…..he’s having the time of his life……..

[wegoingon-deactivated20181007]