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smak-annihilation · 5 months

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decriminalize: me clicking the pen over and over

criminalize: other people clicking the pen over and over

#funny #haha #comedy #joyful cheer #joyus whimsy #meme #joke #criminalize #decriminalize #pen #decriminalize sex work #decriminalize criminalize meme #pen clicking #clicking the pen #adhd #adhd problems #adhd brain #adhd things #autism

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emma-dennehy-presents · 1 year

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Celebrating Black Queer Icons:

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Born on October 25, 1940, Major is a trans women well known as a leader in the broader trans community and an activist, with a particular focus on black and incarcerated trans women. Major grew up in Chicago's South Side and participated in the local drag scene, during her youth. Major described the experiences as glamorous, like going to the Oscars. While she did not have the contemporary language for it, Major has been out as a trans women since the late 1950s. This made her a target of criticism, mistreatment, and violence, even among her queer peers. Majors transition, especially getting her hands on hormones, was largely a black market affair. Given the lack of employment opportunities for black trans women at the time, she largely survived through sex work and other criminalized activities. At some point Major moved to New York City and established herself amongst the cities queer community, despite the prejudice against trans women. She participated in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Later, after getting convicted on a burglary charge, Major was imprisoned with men at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY. There she met Frank "Big Black" Smith, a participant in the 1971 Attica Uprising at Attica Correctional Facility. He treated Major, and her identity as a woman, with respect and the two built a friendship. Smith also taught Major a good bit about advocating for herself and other trans women being mistreated by the US Justice System. Major was released from Dannemora in 1974. Major moved to San Diego in 1978 and almost immediately began working on community efforts and participating in grassroots movements. Starting by working at a food bank, she would go on to provide services directly to incarcerated, addicted, and homeless trans women, and would provide additional services after the AIDS epidemic started. In the 1990s Major moved to the San Fransisco Bay Area, where she continued her work, alongside organizations like the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center. In 2003 Major became the Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, shortly after its founding by attorney and community organizer Alexander L Lee, a trans man. The group works to end human rights abuses in the California Prison System, with a focus on trans, intersex, and gender variant POC. The position has since been passed on to Janetta Johnson, a previously incarcerated trans woman who mentored under Major. She is the focus of the 2015, award winning, documentary Major!. Major has five sons, two biological and three runaways she adopted, after meeting them in a California park. Her oldest son, Christopher was born in 1978, and her youngest, Asiah (rhymes with messiah) in 2021. At 82 years old Miss Major Griffin-Gracy continues to be an active member of her community and an advocate for our rights as trans people.

Haven't settled on which yet, but Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax or Victor J Mukasa will be next!

#celebrating black queer icons #black history #black history month #black history is queer history #black history is american history #abolish the police #abolish prisons #decriminalize sex work #miss major griffin-gracy #major!#really disappointing to find out she doesnt show up in Popular Tags #stonewall inn #stonewall riots #stonewall uprising #transgender gender variant intersex justice project

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trans-axolotl · 8 months

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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.

#personal #sw #ok 2 reblog #decriminalization #decriminalize sex work #anyway i love all of us so fucking much #whorephobia #and i am always so angry about the nordic model.

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randomly-generated-posts-machine · 5 months

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decriminalize killing people criminalize elon musk

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thefact0rygirl · 2 years

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This is your reminder that the Nordic Model is trash and fails to protect the health, dignity, and rights of sex workers.

#all my homies hate the Nordic model #it’s what happens when you let non sex workers speak for sex workers #decriminalize sex work

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ofdinosanddais1 · 8 months

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Hi,

Stopping human trafficking requires:

Abolish the prison industry built on slavery

Providing food, water, healthcare, and shelter as basic human rights

Providing resources to minors who runaway

Abolishing the adoption industry that was built off the foundation of a human trafficker (Georgia Tann)

Supporting the Land Back movement so that traffickers can't exploit loopholes when abducting Indigenous people (also because Indigenous people deserve their land back)

Accepting and loving LGBTQ+ youth

Rebuilding the crumbling mental health system

Decriminalizing drugs so that traffickers can't force people to traffick drugs in an effort to make sure they aren't choosing between being an illegally enslaved person or a legally enslaved person.

Decriminalizing sex work so that children forced into sex work aren't going to prison for being a rape victim.

Recognizing that human trafficking is not just being kidnapped and sold but that family members, teachers, employers, friends, roommates, etc. can traffick people and that it's the most common form of trafficking

Recognizing that human trafficking isn't always just drug and sex trafficking but also labor

Human trafficking feeds off the flaws in our system and it is our job as a society to fix those flaws and starve the industry out.

#human trafficking myths #human trafficking awareness #human trafficking #prison abolition #abolish the adoption industry #adoption trauma #decriminalize drugs #decriminalize sex work #land back

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settlercolonialismisbad · 11 months

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#sesta fosta #repeal sesta fosta #decriminalize sex work #decriminalize #important

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januscorner · 5 months

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“Consent can’t be bought!” Why not tho

#leftism #leftist #decriminalize sex work #Janus’s Corner

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warwickgowphoto · 1 year

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Regardless of where you stand morally everyone deserves the right to live and work safely. No matter their chosen profession.

S*xworkers face an endless barrage of barriers and targeted violence due to criminalisation and discrimination resulting in unsafe working conditions and a hindered ability to participate in society.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against SW. Locally DecrimQLD , Decolonise Sex Work AU and Scarlet Alliance are doing amazing work and would love some more support.

Labour rights affect everyone.

w/ Sierra February, 2021. insta twitter patreon

#sex work is real work #decriminalize sex work #editorial #photography #boudouir #nude art #original photographers #photographers on tumblr

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trans-axolotl · 1 month

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hello elliott! right now in school i'm learning about chinese immigration to the southwest in the 19th century, specifically ways that immigrant mobility was controlled by white settlers. one of those tools was the 1875 page act, which required chinese women to provide additional documentation proving they weren't sex workers in order to immigrate. the page act created crazy gender imbalances in immigrant populations (95% men in some places) and prevented most immigrants from starting families. i knew there's a long history of using purity politics surrounding sex work to control other populations, even right now with things like fosta/sesta, but i've never learned about how this worked earlier in american history (and how it intersected with racial/class issues, specifically). this is a vague question, more of an invitation but - do you know of other early examples of this that you want to talk about? no worries if not!! best wishes :-)

hey! YES i'm super interested in the history of sex work + how criminalization of sex work acted as a form of social control that targeted many groups beyond just sex workers. haven't spent as much time studying this as some other stuff i post about on here so just general disclaimer that all this info is certainly very incomplete.

the Page Act sort of started an era of increased federal attention to sex work. previously to the Page Act, sex work was considered a matter left to the states--various states had many different legal approaches to regulating sex work, and sex work was not universally criminalized at that point. there are some really interesting examples of this type of purity politics in the 19th century--mostly in the context of "moral reform" movements in the Second Great Awakening. I think this is an example of a place where we start to see the rise of this myth and moral panic about connections between immigration and sex work and this idea of the "fallen woman." One really interesting example of the purity politics of the time is the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia, which ended up creating the Magdalen Asylum as a way to "redeem fallen women." And this is a really interesting intersection with mad studies to me--looking at this within the context of mass institutionalization and the age of the asylum, and how the Magdalen Society utilized the tools of the asylum--confinement, isolation, discipline--as a way to attempt to forcibly prevent women from engaging in sex work. And how this was only really possible because of the context of an ableist society where asylums and the tools of pathologization are accepted as an reasonable pathway to "cure" for a wide variety of things, from madness to sex work to poverty. This article goes a lot more in depth to the history of the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia and the Asylum.

After the Page Act, the most major federal legislation around sex work was the Mann Act in 1910 which I think is one of the biggest examples in American history of how sex work criminalization is used as a tactic of social control for a much broader set of populations. The Mann Act is very explicitly racist and the intent of the legislators at the time was very clear, in that the Mann Act essentially categorizes all sex work as illegal sex trafficking and creates this racist myth looking at the "white, pure, innocent girl trafficked into prostitution by immigrants and people of color." and so this act has impacts for SO MANY people beyond just sex workers--this enabled widespread criminalization, and an excuse for increased surveillance, policing, and arrests of men of color based on this myth. The Mann Act is also really connected to the creation of the FBI, actually, because the FBI was created in 1908 and charged with investigating interstate violations of the Mann Act and trying to find this "conspiracy" that didn't exist, and the FBI's enforcement of the Mann Act ended up legitimizing the FBI as a national law enforcement agency essentially investigating anything they labeled as "deviance." so that's an act that still has really widespread implications to this day, in terms of policing of racialized groups alongside the criminalization of sex work. i haven't read this book so can't give a review or recommendation of it, but Policing Sexuality by Jessica R. Pliley is about this.

anyway those are just a few examples i can think of on hand and there's still so much i want to read and learn about the history of sex work and policing in the US so if anyone else has examples or reading recommendations please add on and let me know!!

#asks #sw #sex work history #sex work is work #whatever. can't remember what tags people use for sw stuff on here these days #prison abolition #decriminalize sex work #racism #whorephobia #ableism

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randomly-generated-posts-machine · 22 days

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decriminalize infodumping criminalize elon musk

#comedy #funny #haha #meme #joyful cheer #joyus whimsy #infodump #randomly generated tumblr posts #criminalize #randomly generated #random number generation #infodumping #randomly generated posts #decriminalization #decriminalize criminalize meme #decriminalize sex work #elon musk #elon musty

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hellcatazura · 8 months

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Today is International Sex Worker Rights Day & I'm here to remind you that we want rights not rescue. You should listen to us as experts in our own lives & industry.

Bestie/other model: Lucy Lynx Photo: Stephie Scarlet

#goth #gothic #goth model #blonde goth #alternative #alt model #alternative model #sex worker rights #sex worker #striped socks #azura rose #decriminalize sex work

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beanbowlbaggins · 11 months

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