The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow)
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Historian| PhD candidate| SW ally/accomplice| Feminist harpy - Dissertation on sex work in Toronto - Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thesexworkhistorian Disclaimer: OPINIONS ARE MY OWN
I wanted to post this on August 1, but better late than never, I suppose. I'm taking my yearly social media break (as I do every August). This means I'll be putting all my posting, including my #SexWorkSaturday, on pause until September. See you folks in a month!
(1/69) As #DisabilityPrideMonth comes to a close, I want to do a round-up of pertinent posts that I and others have made throughout July.
An Innu surgeon in Montreal is urging city officials to make changes to the Jacques Cartier monument-fountain in the Sud-Ouest borough, calling it insulting to Indigenous people. montreal.citynews.ca/2026/07/30/s...
Call to remove effigies of Indigenous faces on Saint-Henri fountain
An Innu surgeon in Montreal is urging city officials to make changes to the Jacques Cartier monument-fountain in the Sud-Ouest borough, calling it insulting to Indigenous people. Dr. Stanley Vollant w...
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It’s the #WorldDayAgainstTraffickinginPersons. PSA for the SWERFs and moralists: STOP FEAR MONGERING! Sex work is NOT trafficking. Stop co-opting real issues and trauma for your BS. Conflating sex work and trafficking only harms sex workers and trafficking survivors.
The sex workers always have the best protests at these HIV meetings. #AIDS2025
(1/6) "In this chapter, we provide a general overview of the literature on anarchism and disability. We provide an introduction to historically relevant disabled anarchists and the work of contemporary disabled scholars."
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Beach Reads with Haymarket Books!
Get your summer reading sorted with these curated lists, perfect for beach lounging, burying your head in a book, or collective study—and remember you can get 40% off ALL Haymarket books througho...
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This whole thread, and please apply the same logic to queer folks and disabled folks. Using bigoted talking points or mockery just means you're not *slapping down* bigotry whenever applicable.
The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow)@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · last wk.(1/4) Newsflash: You don't get a pass to be sexist or misogynistic against someone you find repugnant. Patriarchy is predicated on the hatred, degradation, and belittling of all women and femme persons.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall reut.rs/4vUklZs
Powerful quake hits southern Japan, deaths feared in shopping mall blast
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a p...
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(1/5) "Expand your perspective with these must-read nonfiction books for #DisabilityPrideMonth. 📚 Discover powerful memoirs and thought-provoking cultural criticism that center disabled voices and lived experiences."
(1/2) "...the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism."
(1/4) Newsflash: You don't get a pass to be sexist or misogynistic against someone you find repugnant. Patriarchy is predicated on the hatred, degradation, and belittling of all women and femme persons.
Mamdani: "When I make criticisms of PM Netanyahu, they are criticisms of PM Netanyahu. And what I shared were not even frankly personal assessments, they were objective facts ... it's a city where everyone needs to know that their belonging to it is not conditional on how they feel about the mayor."
Mamdani accurately said that Prime Minister Netanyahu is charged with war crimes, and people are blaming him for antisemitism. Trump baselessly claimed George Soros was funding Central American migrant caravans, which directly inspired the deadliest antisemitic violence in US history in 2018.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Mamdani: "When I make criticisms of PM Netanyahu, they are criticisms of PM Netanyahu. And what I shared were not even frankly personal assessments, they were objective facts ... it's a city where everyone needs to know that their belonging to it is not conditional on how they feel about the mayor."
One day when research exists again, maybe I'll get a grant to interview other women who got into sex work thanks to Elon Musk. Solidarity!
The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow)@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 2w agoHi, folks. Welcome to yet another #SexWorkSaturday! It appears to have been a slower news week. However, I do have an article to share (provided via the Old Pros Podcast newsletter): www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...
@netchoice.bsky.social @eff.org @fsc.bsky.social @fightforthefuture.org @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social @aclu.org IL is enacting this law soon whether Pritzker vetos it or lets it roll over. Its unconstitutional. I hope some of you will help to block it when the time comes. Cant do it alone
🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞@onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · last wk.#savespeech #notodigitalID #NOTOOSLEVELVERIFICATION Early Monday FYI from Home: Illinois OS Level AV Bill HB 5511 REMINDER. Still at large. Not signed by Pritzker yet, but not vetoed either. Will go into effect 60 days after it had passed both houses. Which is either July 31st or Aug. 1st...
(1/5) "The Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Committee (TWBC), a project of the AIDS Committee of Toronto, was started in 1998 to provide safe, sex-positive spaces for queer women and trans people. The committee organized events and outreach initiatives such as 'The Pussy Palace.'"
Hi, folks. Welcome to yet another #SexWorkSaturday! It appears to have been a slower news week. However, I do have an article to share (provided via the Old Pros Podcast newsletter): www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...
What a reporter learned covering the impact of USAID cuts on aid workers-turned-sex workers in Nepal
Associated Press reporter Kristen Gelineau, who has been covering the impact of the U.S. foreign aid cuts, reported and wrote the story of how the cuts have prompted scores of unemployed aid workers.....
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(1/3) "Parasocial breakups are so real. As a disabled homebody and trans femme, I fell into the trap of believing that [Hasan Piker's] usually accurate political commentary represented a person who was able to hold safe space for someone like me..."
Right wing culture warriors: “Putting Africans in the Odyssey is woke.” The Odyssey:
Accessibility means equal access for all. It involves designing products, places/spaces, services, and digital tools that everyone can use easily and independently. #DisabilityPrideMonth
EVENT!!!: Kulture Fest Burlesque and Drag International 🕢 July 26, 7:30 pm to 3:30 am EST 📍Glad Day Bookshop, 32 Lisgar St., Toronto, ON 🔗: ma.to/event/kultur...
Kulture Fest International at Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto
Jul 26 · Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto. Kreative Kulture returns with a summer festival-themed burlesque and drag variety show celebrating international…
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At least 10,000 people have been evacuated following wildfires in the central region of Madrid. Authorities said on Friday that two major blazes were “out of control”. Spain has been struggling to contain deadly fires amid soaring summer temperatures in Europe.
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From blind gamers to a brand-new superhero: How people with disabilities are affecting change in their hobbies | CBC Radio
Hobbies are universal. We’re all into something. But for those with disabilities, hobbies can be both a pressure valve and a lifeline to community. Hobbilities is a new CBC radio special that speaks t...
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