speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.
This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.
It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.
In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.
What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.
@seananmcguire and everyone else reblogging this: if you care about us at all, i’m fucking begging you, you need to stand for us. there are 22 thousand notes on this right now. there were maybe 90 people at the int’l whore’s day protest in my city this year and that was a much higher-than-expected turnout.
we’re dying. i cannot stress this enough. we are being killed, we are being attacked, we are being raped, and the same is for trafficking victims, trafficking survivors, and wholly “consensual” sex workers. and as much as i see posts like this go viral, at the same time i don’t see allyship. nobody’s standing with us. half the notes on this are “lol op’s a terf”, half the comments are about autism or divorce, and all i see is more people who don’t find us worthwhile on our own.
here’s a fact about criminalization: when you’ve got a prostitution rap—which, to reiterate, you’ll get whether or not you’re “consensually” in the field, and often even if you’re a minor—you’re “tainted”. you’re damaged goods. you might be on a sex offender registry by default.
good luck getting an apartment. good luck getting an above-board job. criminalization is a vicious cycle that more often than not keeps us in sex work, whether or not we wanted to be here in the first place and whether or not we want to be here now.
we don’t have other options. the government is the most efficient pimp there is.
so, please, i’m literally begging you, if you care about us at all. if you think my life has any value at all, if you think my siblings’ lives have any value at all. fight for us. show up for us. call your local politicians. support local organizations fighting for sex workers and trafficking victims. volunteer in harm reduction campaigns. attend protests and sit-ins. there’s a bunch.
the international day to end violence against sex workers is december 17; i hope to run into some of you there, if i’m alive to make it.
you can usually find a capital at the beginning of a sentence (Le train entre en gare) and of a proper noun (first name, city, country, planet…)
II. at the beginning of sentences :
you capitalise a/ the first letter of the first mot of a sentence, b/ the first word after an hyphen (un trait d’union -) or a colon (un deux-points 🙂 that expressed direct speech (ex : Elle m’a répondu : “ Je ne viendrai pas. “, c/ at the beginning of verses in classic poetry (ex : Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché…)
III. at the beginning of proper nouns :
you capitalise a/ the first letter of a first name or last name (Marianne Dumaret), nb : the preposition in compound names and the article in compound surnames don’t take a capital, ex : Jean de La Fontaine, Pierrot le Fou, b/ the first letter of titles (Madame la Comtesse, Votre Altesse), c/ the first letter of the names of locations, historical monuments or political institutions (la Loire, la Bastille, l’Assemblée nationale), nb : when a location has a compound noun, nouns take a capital but articles or prepositions don’t (Trouville-sur-Mer), d/ the first letter of the nouns of social and cultural institutions (la Sécurité sociale, l’Académie française), e/ the first letter of nouns expressing historical periods (les guerres de Religion, la Libération, la Renaissance)…
louis farrakhan called Jews termites yesterday and we will still see absolutely no meaningful condemnation of him from people like Linda Sarsour and other women’s march leadership – because leftists will never show us the same kind of solidarity they expect from us
Thing is, the Tumblr format of microblogging is really good. It essentially allows every user to be the curator of their own content gallery with tags and posts of any kind and from anywhere on the site with little to no limitation on length or presentation (if you know a little html).
But functionality-wise and community-wise, the site is a fucking disaster.
i want to leave tumblr so bad but there’s no sites with the same format
What other site lets you pick from a library of reaction gifs built into their format?
i mean, it’s not like there’s a GOOD social media site out there
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Experimental Saturday
I don’t know what to say. I cooked everything in the house. I guess I’m compensating for the past few (well, more than few) weekends I spent working. 🤗
Couples receive “parent points”, which they can use to purchase their children. Most parents wait for a few thousand, but you chose to buy the cheaper, 100 point child.
Shane knows what it’s like to be a 100 point child. He knows how it feels to see potential parents–potential families–come through the facilities doors, faces bright with excitement. He knows how it feels to see them reading the little plaques on the nursery doors, scanning the lists there for the right bits of knowledge and etiquette and grace that they want their baby to have.
He knows how it feels to see their faces pinch outside the window before they hurry to the next room.
Shane grew up in a 100 point nursery. They had torn, ratty, books and no teachers, and when snack time came, the tray was pushed through a slat in the door. They were called “unruly” and “damaged” and “stupid.” A lot of the other kids threw tantrums and broke furniture (and sometimes other kids). A lot of the other kids went quiet after the first few years when they realized they’d never be adopted until they were old enough (or pretty enough) to be useful. A lot of the kids cried and didn’t stop until they got taken away or were aged out.
Shane’s grown up a lot since aging out. He put himself through school, got himself a job, shed his 100 points like the torn clothes he’d left the facility in. He’s powerful now, successful, and he’s grown out of the twisted nose, big ears, and gap-toothed smile that had made him one of the less attractive 100 point babies. Or maybe he’s grown into them. Who’s to say?
It’s taken him a long time to get enough Parent Points to do what he wants. Being a man is, for once, somewhat hindering as most of society equates “parental” with “maternal.” He’s lost count of how many social workers have politely hid expressions of surprise when he told them he wanted to adopt stag, that he’s willing to take the classes, get the grades, make the oaths to get even one Parent Point.
I read two hours worth of aliens interacting with humans and all the humans can explain the situation somehow. Why we do things, why we don’t do things. Why we react in a certain way,etc.
I have no idea if this already exists but here’s my idea: What if the human has no idea what is going on with the other human? Or how to explain, repair things because it’s not related to their workspace.
“HumanSusan, why does HumanThomas stab himself with this thin obect?” (Needle)
“He probably suffers from diabetes.”
“What is diabetes?”
“It’s the lack of a certain protein in the human body which we need to function properly. He needs to inject insulin otherwise he will die. But it’s a common porblam so you don’t have to worry about it.”
“Could you explain this further?”
“I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“I’m a mechanic not a doctor. If you want to know how the human body works go an talk to a human doctor. They’ve studied that shit for years.”
or
“HumanJack. Am I correct that you are a scientist?”
“Given the fact that I work in the labor I would say yes. Why?”
“Could you spare some time and explain how it’s possible that two human with blue eyes have a child with brown eyes?”
“Look….. I am a physics scientist. I can build you a laser in no time. I can use the formula for mass time acceleration if I have to but don’t waste your time with asking me about the human body. I hated biology my entire life and will hate it untill I die…………….. Also I’m pretty sure that this is not how genetics work.”
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