also i am forever + always angry at all the people who are interested in "saving sex workers from themselves." the way we are made into both a victim to be saved and simultaneously the dangerous threat we must be saved from (the language of psychiatry, "danger to yourself or others" feels very relevant here, there is a connection between carceral psychiatry as a "solution" to madness and policing + criminalization as a "solution" for sex work). the absolute lack of compassion so many "anti-sex trafficking orgs" have for any actual survivors + sex workers is not shocking, but it makes me fucking livid. when i see people pretending to want to help sex workers they never actually listen to what we say we need; they want control and they want to use us to fit into their narratives about morality and safety.
i think about all the shit that actually would have helped me when I didn't want to be doing sex work, and all of it was resources, support, and community that could not happen when sex work is criminalized. whorephobia and criminalization fucking kills, and i am so tired of people pretending to advocate for sex workers while promoting policies that harm us so fucking much.
i wish Nancy and Robin never got to hang out cuz now they’re gonna live rent free in my head as girlfriends. im gonna BITE the duffer brothers cuz i just KNOW they’re gonna ignore it in favor of some straight love triangle bullshit