MCCUSE ME BITCH

I throat punched that bitch!

this is against my civil rats!

Tf did I just watch

💀💀💀💀

😂😂😂 in fuckin weak

Bitch 💀💀💀

BRUH!!!!! Her fucking wig! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thats the first thing. And then I lost it at “McScuse me!?” 😂😂😂😂

Mccuse me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂👊🏾

LMAO I’m SO weak like wow, I need a nap

McScuse Me💀💀

”And then you throat punch her! Or punch her in the cooter, I don’t give a damn!”  💀💀 💀💀 💀💀

“i like the other ones”

I’m going into convulsions at “McScuse me, Bitch?!”

I fucking love this shit

March 3rd

I’m really fucking tired of the sex worker activism that is mostly populated with high end sex workers.

And just for the record, I am NOT saying they don’t deserve their basic rights and humanity, but I am saying that their narrative is prioritized before survival and/or marginalized sex workers.

Throwing survival sex workers under the bus alienates them. Not all of us are out to get our empowerment high, okay? Not all of us are in it to make sure everyone knows we just love our jobs!

I’m sick of white sex workers’ testimonies counting as sex worker activism. “I love my job” has no teeth. It’s meaningless. It’s individualistic. It’s not a strong enough argument FOR activist purposes. It bears no collective backbone. It’s weak as fuck. Historical labor movements never used “I love my job” as a way of fighting for their rights.

There are plenty of trans, poc, disabled, etc. sex workers who are writing and doing amazing stuff about sex work and how it relates to class and capitalism, which is a violent and shame-inducing society that punishes people for surviving. Those voices should be prioritized and centered in SW activism.

^^ Exactly. Sex workers who don’t love doing sex work deserve rights, same goes for sex workers who aren’t raking in tons of money, and/or sex workers who aren’t using the money to go to school or get a degree, those who are literally just scraping by and using their money for drugs and rent still deserve rights and the ability to have a prominent voice in the discussion -and in fact are the ones who need it the most since that’s who’s most likely to be targeted for violence. 

Like we shouldn’t have to insist that we love our job and don’t struggle with any social or class issues in order to have basic fucking rights. You shouldn’t have to fit into a capitalist’s definition of “worthiness” in order to deserve to be free from violence and criminalisation, ffs. 

I’m digressing from the issue of activism but this post made me think about “high end” sex workers as a concept vs. reality.

I honestly wonder what percentage of sex workers are living comfortably and/or affluently. Recently 2 very popular (white, cis) fetish workers in my city had to start crowd funding campaigns in order to not be homeless, and they were women with thousands of fans, who I thought were making bank. If they are struggling, that’s a bad sign.

When I read about the “career strippers” that @lilitharcane writes about - women with investments and property who can retire in their 40s - I think they must be the rare exceptions. Along with the storied escorts & sugarbabies making 5k a week. It doesn’t seem real to me, it’s so far from my experience of doing sex work to survive. Maybe it’s all a vanished relic of the pre-recession past? 

I can’t work very many hours because of my disabilities, but even if I could, there would be a cap on my take home income per week, month, year. I believe, in today’s economy, there is a limit in terms of what we can extract from wealthy men, and this prevents sex work from being a real “equalizer” or some liberating, leveling force - it’s hardly a redistribution of wealth when a multi-millionaire hands me $200 for my labor. When he gives me half his assets, I’ll be singing a different tune. 

Hats off to the women who can pull that kind of thing, but you’d have to convince me that there are more than like 17 of them total for me to buy this idea that there’s this entire discrete class of high end workers sipping champagne in their high rise lofts. I don’t want to be like, “prove it!” but I also kind of do. 

Most of us are honestly living client to client and using coupons and food stamps and sleeping on couches or in shelters and scrounging for change and laughing when we see girls recommend $350 AP lingerie sets. 

^ THIS! There are definitely divides & different experiences between ppl who can charge more & ppl who can’t, but there’s also a lot of smoke & mirrors when it comes to how much money everyone is actually taking home after paying for work expenses.

Most sex workers I know irl who are considered “high earners” at their place of work are like, single mothers who can afford to have a car & a house with no flatmates, young queers who live in mouldy student flats but have some flashy lingerie & brand name cosmetics, people who have a decent straight job & hook part time to pay for indulgences. It sounds impressive when someone says “I made a grand last night” but “a night” usually means 10+ hours. There is a definite limit in how much any given worker can earn, even if they were available 24/7. Most men who aren’t wealthy are having their disposable income decline. There are only so many genuinely rich men who want/need to see sex workers & increasing numbers of workers. Certain days & times are much much more profitable than others. Earning more than you realistically could at whatever straight job you could get is awesome but it’s not necessarily the same as being rich.

I feel this a lot. Which is another reason why I find it so fucking grating when people mock others for not making enough, or not having high enough rates, or not so and so many clients a month. I’m pretty sure we all do whatever we can, and our value as a person isn’t determined by our hourly rate or how many designer handbags currently reside in our walk in closets (I at least got a walk in closet area in my shoe box apartment so that’s something?). You don’t need to make bank to be valid in your identity as a sex worker.

This is why Blake's 7 is clutch

Detroit teachers stage “sickout” over horrible conditions, force schools to close

Eighty-eight of Detroit’s 97 public schools were closed Wednesday when teachers participated in a districtwide “sickout” to push for demands related to school conditions and their rights as employees. The protests align with a very high profile visitor in Detroit.

Lwaxana Troi is a pretty under rated character tbh. I think she might be my fucking heroine. 

Information for intersex allies

What is intersex?

Intersex is a term that relates to a range of physical traits or variations that lie between ideals of male and female. Intersex people are born with physical, hormonal or genetic features that are neither wholly female nor wholly male; or a combination of female and male; or neither female nor male. Many forms of intersex exist; it is a spectrum or umbrella term, rather than a single category. Intersex differences may be apparent at birth. Some common intersex variations are diagnosed prenatally. Some intersex traits become apparent at puberty, or when trying to conceive, or through random chance.

How many intersex people are there?

The lowest popular statistic is around 1 in 2,000 people (.05% of births) but a more likely figure is closer to 1.7%. This makes intersex differences about as common as red hair.

Are intersex individuals hermaphrodites?

Biologically, no. Hermaphrodites (such as snails) possess fully functioning sets of both “male” and “female” sex organs. This is impossible in mammals. Linguistically, the word originates in the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus who was both male and female, having elements of both sexes.

In the recent past, some intersex diagnoses were termed “pseudo-hermaphrodites” or “true-hermaphrodites”. While some intersex people use the term, others find it stigmatising due to that medical history. If in doubt, it is best only used by intersex people.

Are intersex individuals sick?

Intersex people, like all people, have health issues. In a few diagnoses, immediate medical attention is needed from birth, but being intersex is not a health issue in and of itself. Natural intersex bodies are most often healthy. Intersex people frequently need hormone replacement as a result of medical intervention.

Why are intersex individuals subjected to medical intervention?

Medical intervention attempts to make intersex individuals’ bodies conform to ideals of male or female. Current medical protocols are based on the ideas that infant genital surgery will “minimise family concern and distress” and “mitigate the risks of stigmatisation and gender-identity confusion”. Surgical interventions intrinsically focus on appearance, and not sensation or sexual function. Childhood cosmetic genital surgeries are also problematic as children cannot consent to them. Adolescents, and even adults, have also reported feeling pressured by doctors and family to conform to societal norms. Some doctors still believe that disclosure of a person’s intersex status would be too alarming.

Very many intersex people suffer the physical and emotional effects of surgery, and related shame and secrecy. At a fundamental level, homophobia, intolerance and ancient superstitions underpin contemporary mistreatment of intersex people.

What is DSD? Is this the same as intersex?

In 2006, the medical community replaced the term intersex with “Disorders of Sex Development” or DSD. DSD reinforces the idea that intersex traits are individual medical conditions or disorders that need to be fixed. Today, some intersex people use the label – especially those who were taught DSD by their parents or doctors since the term’s inception. Intersex people are free to use any label, and the term intersex remains widespread today.

We believe that stigmatising language leads to poor mental health, marginalisation, and exclusion from human rights and social institutions. The term intersex promotes equality and human rights for people born with atypical sex characteristics.

Do all intersex individuals identify as male or female, or in between?

Intersex is not about gender identity; it is a lived experience of the body. Intersex people have a broad range of gender identities, just like non-intersex people. An intersex person may identify as male, female, both, between, X, intersex, intersex man, intersex woman, or none of these. Even so, an intersex person may or may not have obvious physical differences from gender norms.

Are intersex people transgender?

A minority of intersex people change gender, and some of them may self-identify as transgender, but almost all intersex people have had medical treatment to confirm their sex. Often that intervention was something they had no choice about. Many will not fully identify with their assigned gender. This is part of the intersex experience, but it doesn’t make us transgender.

Are intersex people gay or lesbian, or queer?

It depends on the individual, how they define their gender and identity, how they present, and who they form relationships with. Every intersex person is different. Like all people, some intersex individuals are LGBT and others are not, but LGBT activism has fought for the rights of people who fall outside of expected binary sex and gender norms. Intersex is part of LGBTI because of intersex status and a shared experience of homophobia, not because of sexual orientation or gender identity.

What are intersex activists’ goals?

The goals of the intersex movement are to raise awareness, and achieve an equal place in society. We seek the right to bodily autonomy, the right to a life without stigma and discrimination, and the right to a life without shame and secrecy.

How to be a good ally

Consider what you do to support intersex inclusion in health and human rights initiatives.

Change your language and frame of reference. Intersex status is distinct from both sexual orientation and gender identity. These are each recognised in the federal Sex Discrimination Act.

Put intersex people and intersex-led organisations front and centre when talking about intersex.

Many medical studies of intersex people explicitly identify gender identity issues and non-heterosexual behaviours as reasons for medical treatment. Non-consensual surgery is an LGBTI issue as it shows what can happen when non-heteronormative people are established to be “born this way”. Ally with our call to end normalising interventions on intersex children.

Adopt federal Guidelines on gender recognition, and offer everyone F, M and X options if you have to record gender in your workplace. Go further and support multiple options. Consider whether your workplace needs to record information on sex, gender and title. Can you offer an option to opt out?

Intersex people should be included in campaigns for marriage equality, but we are not included in same-sex marriage. Marriages in Australia have been annulled on the basis that one party was neither fully male nor fully female. Include intersex in education, service access, and in employment and anti-bullying policies designed to prevent harassment and discrimination.

Follow and share intersex issues on social networks.

Resources

Books:

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience by Katrina Karkazis. Golden Boy, A Novel by Abigail Tarttelin.

Films:

Intersexion (NZ, 2012) Orchids: My Intersex Adventure (Australia, 2011)

Speakers, articles, videos, information:

Organisation Intersex International Australia

oii.org.au

facebook.com/oii.au

Twitter @oiiaustralia

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia

aissga.org.au

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I’ve decided my new favorite thing is when Deadpool cosplayers hang out with Sailor Moon cosplayers.

Isn’t this

the cutest thing?

No justice for Black girls and women. No justice for Black people. #SandraBland

This is a Sandra Bland dedication post.

This is in response to the recent failure (Dec. 22, 2015) to indict anyone for the murder of Sandra Bland. i’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of seeing videos of our people being mowed down every single time and get no fucking justice. i am traumatized. and the only healing is liberation. it’s time to organize for real friends.

feel free to reblog and keep adding photos or comments in commemoration of her life and willingness to fight for and with Black people. To all Black women out there, keep your spirits high. It’s what Sandra Bland would want.

Rest in power warrior. February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015.

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can we make this 5 digit notes?!?!

Nice. How about 50k?