Portland and Portland-adjacent sex workers/people who care about sex worker rights
City Club of Portland is having ANOTHER anti-trafficking forum, a circle jerk of rich conservatives, the DA and cops, and the batshit hateful (Sam Berg, she of That Article from a few weeks ago, you know the one, and if you don’t, be grateful; Joel Shapiro from Shared Hope International, a rescue NGO that’s tied to Columbia Sportswear at a few levels) come together to spread misinformation and rank fear in order to drum up support for tighter measures against strippers, strip clubs, and all other sex workers.
highlights in the past have included: Strip clubs are where traffickers bring children to be broken; children* going to the legislature to beg that all strip clubs be closed so they aren’t trafficked; “how to tell a trafficking victim: long nails, acrylics, a weave, shots of luxury goods on social media”; “how to tell a trafficker: lipstick tattoo and shots of money on social media”; and a hilarious denial that GLOBAL stats on exploited labour have any relation to the realty in Oregon.
rather than listen to this bullshit, let’s demand real solutions to exploitation and poverty.
if you want to interrupt this process, or just have your mind blown, i’ll see you here:
Wed, January 11, 2017
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PST
Kell’s
it’s free to show up, there is food, the food is not free. let’s bring an even bigger group than last time.
*these children are religious private school students, statistically the least likely to be involved in sexual exploitation by people other than their own families (UNLESS they are lgbt)
kaledo-art
prguitarman
romaincrisis
jbbartram-illu
ellievsbear
blakekathryn
janainaart
