Cecilia Birks 🌒 YUL | YYZ | FMTY

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creature of contrasts www.ceciliabirks.com

French singer-songwriter/poet & cultural provocateur Georges Brassens remains IMO a class-consciousness icon & among the rare male artists with an accurate understanding of SWers’ realities. Welcome to my TEDtalk about his song “La Complainte des Filles de Joie” (loosely: “Working Girls’ Blues”) 🧵

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In today's episode of Cece's hyper fixations: the troubling tuberose 🤍 Nightblooming beauty nicknamed "mistress of the night", legend says that unmarried women in Renaissance-era Italy were forbidden to smell tuberose after nightfall, lest their purity be endangered by its intoxicating aroma.

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High skill often becomes invisible. When your time with a provider feels natural, spontaneous, and effortless, you're experiencing the result of thousands of hours spent refining a craft. The fact that we make it look easy isn't a reason to discount our work. It is precisely what you’re paying for.

On this day in 1975, in Lyon, over 100 SWers went on strike & occupied the St-Nizier church for 8 days, to protest inhumane working conditions stemming from police harassment, stigma & criminalisation. Today, I thank every one of them & carry forth their message. Happy Int'l Whores' Day! ☂️ #oursky