Satan's Lolita

Rants and raves from an Undocumented poor queer sometimes sex worker

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I'm the worst at getting ready.

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Overlooked.

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what i want to show people that say undocumented people don't pay taxes.....

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You Can’t Cheer for @LaverneCox and Boo Jennicet | Advocate.com

A transgender woman and undocumented immigrant called out the President in a room full of LGBT advocates. Guess who the crowd sided with?

BY ISA NOYOLA

The transgender community has had an incredible year in the media and in the national spotlight. Caitlyn, Laverne,Janet Mock: the general public have cheered for these women, and LGBTQ movement leaders have enthusiastically embraced them, shared their magazine covers on Facebook, and shouted them out in interviews and on stages. This has been the year of celebrating transgender people.

That is, until a trans Latina undocumented immigrant woman took center stage at a White House Pride reception on Wednesday to challenge and engage the President as he began a speech congratulating our nation’s biggest LGBTQ leaders.

Jennicet Gutiérrez is the first transgender person to publicly call out the president around immigration and the torture and rape transgender immigrants often experience inside detention centers. Gutiérrez was in a room full of national LGBT leaders who gathered to celebrate the many accomplishments of the movement. You would imagine this would be a place to feel seen, safe, and validated. That was not the case.

As soon as Gutiérrez proceeded to speak truth and ask the President as to why he is not releasing our trans detainees who face violence, the crowd began to jeer, boo, and hiss. As she continued, the crowd then began to drown her and chant, “OBAMA! OBAMA!”

A transgender woman of color and undocumented leader in the immigrant rights and LGBT movement was booed and silenced by not only the state, but by the very same movement that purports to uplift and celebrate the transgender community.

As her voice, filled with passion and conviction, broke through the White House room, she was met by negativity, intolerance, and stares of disapproval from her peers. Her voice was carried by the thousands of transgender women considered disposable by the nation, facing deportation, detention, and brutal transphobic violence.

Her voice and visibility in that moment was shunned and shamed as inappropriate by a roomful of leaders who then applauded as the President lamented violence against transgender women of color, violence that his actions have contributed to by not taking action against the detention centers. Her voice is one of few transgender women of color immigrants who are bringing national visibility to this issue of the detention centers. Her voice carried the weight of the communities who are screaming inside detention centers demanding to be freed. Her voice was heard and ridiculed by many who claim to fight for transgender communities and also are involved in LGBT immigrant rights issues.

There is a line in the sand being drawn. Transgender communities have been thrust into the media spotlight, and been asked about our bodies, lovers, histories, and how we see ourselves. The moment we start to engage and raise questions around the state’s transphobic violence, our LGBT community leaders turn their backs and proceed to silence us. Transgender leaders are receiving the message that we are only mere tokens, bodies for entertainment, and accessories to make the spaces of organizing diverse and give the illusion of unity.

As we continue to celebrate and honor trailbrazing transgender women of color in the media and national spotlight, let us also celebrate the transgender women who are imagining a visibility that reaches beyond the borders and the jails and the detention centers that restrict us. Let us show up for these women, and support them as they infuse movements for health access, immigration, and racial and economic justice with their lives and bodies.

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23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

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[leighalanna]

Legitimate question, why do you consider the term prostitute a slur? I've always thought it was just a job title for general, non-niche sex workers.

I don’t consider it a slur, it is a slur. 

Sorry to nitpick, that sort of grammar pedantry isn’t usually my style, but the distinction is important in this case. 

Let’s go the super technical route first: the origin of the word prostitute (from the Latin prostituere) actually has no inherent connotation of “transactional sex” or sex for hire. What it actually means is “sex offered indiscriminately.”   That alone is a pretty reasonable proof against the notion that the word “prostitute” is any way meant to represent a non-loaded universal term for sex workers (incidentally, it’s part of why the very literal, almost plodding “sex worker” has so much appeal).  The notion that what sex workers do is offer sex indiscriminately is a tool used publicly rob of us our agency, to justify public policies that endanger us, to further entrance the stigma we face and keep us isolated and resourceless as a population.

From a more modern, and more relevant, standpoint, the term prostitute has been heavily associated (you could make an argument that its modern use was essentially coined in conjunction) with the criminalization of people who trade sex.  It is a word that has no modern meaning other than “sexualized transaction that has been declared illegal.” Let me explain: based on your question, I am going to assume that if you describe someone as a prostitute, you are describing someone who trades sexual intercourse (specifically PIV, anal sex, or possibly oral sex) for money. Non-niche, to use your word.  But from a legal standpoint, that’s a woefully muddy misuse. Obviously (as self-declared wits in the prostitution tags are so delighted to point out), a porn actress working for a mainstream company in California is probably doing that, and is not, from a legal standpoint, a prostitute. Whereas a dominatrix working in New Jersey, who conducts sessions where neither herself nor her clients disrobe, who has not traded sexual intercourse for money ever at all, absolutely is one. And so forth. Describing someone as a prostitute does not tell you anything about what that person does or does not for a living, except that it is criminalized. Inherent in the modern use of the word prostitute is the idea that sex workers are criminals, and therefore, that what we do is unethical and harmful to our communities, and to our victims.  

Finally, a simple, casual slang test for you.  Think about the ways we use the word “prostitute” when we’re specifically not talking about sex workers.  If you call a painter a prostitute, you’re saying they’ve sold out, they’ve stopped producing meaningful art and have gone to work for some evil, big company.  If you talk about prostituting your talent, your craft, what you’re saying is that you’ve sold something that should not be sold, that you’ve tainted something precious, that you allow what is good about you to be tarnished by people with evil, or at best, callous intentions.  When we use prostitute to mean things other than the trade of sex, we use it to describe a soiling of the self.  Is that what you think general, non-niche sex workers are doing? 

[brokeglitz]

It’s associated with more than just criminalisation. Prostitute is the term used by police to legitimise all forms of statist violence against us. That’s not just arrests- a horrendous act in itself- but also evictions, removal of children, assaults, harassment, stalking, and more. For many of us the word prostitute conjures images of times we’ve been subjected to any of this form of police violence, or at least felt at risk of it.

On top of that, it’s also the term that is used to dismiss us in our entirety. Our deaths are reported as “prostitute murdered”, our successes are tinted and erased in media with this word. It strips us of all our identity so that we are remembered as nothing more than our jobs. With misuse, sex worker could easily become similarly dismissive, but it at least is coming from a neutral starting point.

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[leighalanna]

Legitimate question, why do you consider the term prostitute a slur? I've always thought it was just a job title for general, non-niche sex workers.

I don’t consider it a slur, it is a slur. 

Sorry to nitpick, that sort of grammar pedantry isn’t usually my style, but the distinction is important in this case. 

Let’s go the super technical route first: the origin of the word prostitute (from the Latin prostituere) actually has no inherent connotation of “transactional sex” or sex for hire. What it actually means is “sex offered indiscriminately.”   That alone is a pretty reasonable proof against the notion that the word “prostitute” is any way meant to represent a non-loaded universal term for sex workers (incidentally, it’s part of why the very literal, almost plodding “sex worker” has so much appeal).  The notion that what sex workers do is offer sex indiscriminately is a tool used publicly rob of us our agency, to justify public policies that endanger us, to further entrance the stigma we face and keep us isolated and resourceless as a population.

From a more modern, and more relevant, standpoint, the term prostitute has been heavily associated (you could make an argument that its modern use was essentially coined in conjunction) with the criminalization of people who trade sex.  It is a word that has no modern meaning other than “sexualized transaction that has been declared illegal.” Let me explain: based on your question, I am going to assume that if you describe someone as a prostitute, you are describing someone who trades sexual intercourse (specifically PIV, anal sex, or possibly oral sex) for money. Non-niche, to use your word.  But from a legal standpoint, that’s a woefully muddy misuse. Obviously (as self-declared wits in the prostitution tags are so delighted to point out), a porn actress working for a mainstream company in California is probably doing that, and is not, from a legal standpoint, a prostitute. Whereas a dominatrix working in New Jersey, who conducts sessions where neither herself nor her clients disrobe, who has not traded sexual intercourse for money ever at all, absolutely is one. And so forth. Describing someone as a prostitute does not tell you anything about what that person does or does not for a living, except that it is criminalized. Inherent in the modern use of the word prostitute is the idea that sex workers are criminals, and therefore, that what we do is unethical and harmful to our communities, and to our victims.  

Finally, a simple, casual slang test for you.  Think about the ways we use the word “prostitute” when we’re specifically not talking about sex workers.  If you call a painter a prostitute, you’re saying they’ve sold out, they’ve stopped producing meaningful art and have gone to work for some evil, big company.  If you talk about prostituting your talent, your craft, what you’re saying is that you’ve sold something that should not be sold, that you’ve tainted something precious, that you allow what is good about you to be tarnished by people with evil, or at best, callous intentions.  When we use prostitute to mean things other than the trade of sex, we use it to describe a soiling of the self.  Is that what you think general, non-niche sex workers are doing? 

[brokeglitz]

It’s associated with more than just criminalisation. Prostitute is the term used by police to legitimise all forms of statist violence against us. That’s not just arrests- a horrendous act in itself- but also evictions, removal of children, assaults, harassment, stalking, and more. For many of us the word prostitute conjures images of times we’ve been subjected to any of this form of police violence, or at least felt at risk of it.

On top of that, it’s also the term that is used to dismiss us in our entirety. Our deaths are reported as “prostitute murdered”, our successes are tinted and erased in media with this word. It strips us of all our identity so that we are remembered as nothing more than our jobs. With misuse, sex worker could easily become similarly dismissive, but it at least is coming from a neutral starting point.

[paygoddessprima]

Reblog a thousand times in a thousand lives.