We live in a country where rich women with ‘feelings’ about sex work they will never have to do are informing laws that impact actual sex workers like me. They think it’s great my landlord can evict me whenever should he find out what I do. That’s feminism according to the NWCI.
Violence against women exists because of misogyny. It is not intrinsic to sex work. Sex work is not a monolith, it is different under every structure the world has to offer. And EVIDENCE shows that the Nordic model has failed.
So when you hear some posh know-nothing going on about ‘helping the poor prostitutes by destroying the sex trade’, please pay attention to the smell of the good auld Catholic moralism and find someone who’s actually a sex worker to talk to because we need working rights, thanks.
Irish feminist organisations often throw about the phrase ‘separate church and state’ without recognising that their policies on sex work are ‘morality’ based, not evidence based. They platform righteous preachers who convince you of their feelings, not workers’ lived experience
You know what you get when you create policy based on ‘feelings’, be they religious or some other brand of righteous? A history riddled with Magdalen laundries, which then allowed those nuns+followers to continue enacting coercive control over any woman they label ‘whore’
If you would like to read of the violence we experience as sex workers which is facilitated by policies NWCI lobbied for, here’s a report featuring me and many other workers from earlier this year.
Truly mad that so-called feminists think sex workers can’t consent considering I told approx a mile of men to fuck right off last night 🤷🏻♀️ And I’ll do it again and again and again and wish everyone in all service industries had the same pleasure.
SW have been sharing pics of candles burning between ourselves all day. When I opened my phone and saw was filled with love for the community, fearing for safety and still making time to send some flames of solidarity from all over. Peace and power to her. 🔥
#DecrimNow
Here was I happy for years with Poppy as my dancer name and now a customer is after going “why didn’t you go with Crystal? You could introduce yourself as Crystal from Waterford!” Fuck me I wish I had rolled with this dad joke on day 1 🙈
I’m currently taking a little break from Angels to focus on wrapping up a lil commitment I have 🥺 BUT if you pop me a text/DM that you just Need a dance from My Sweet Self 💕 I can arrange to be there, just for you 💕
Grateful everyday to be a part of this community - a friend just leant across the table to me asking “is so-and-so sex worker friendly?” and I’m happy to be able to answer, I’m happy she’s able to ask, blessed to be able to look out for each other.
The “stakeholders” have been invited to meetings regarding the review of sex work laws in Ireland. No sex workers have been invited, even though we are the ones with everything at stake. Magdalen culture is alive and well.
Dancing in Angels Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week my lovelies~ 38 Leeson Street, 10.30 til late. Come support your local strippers and have a night to remember while you’re at it xxx
Had such a lovely night being back~ enough rhinestones to star the dark and lots of banter all around ✨✨✨ Sometimes I don’t know how I stay away for so long 🤷🏻♀️
@SusanSarandon
Thank you Susan 💖 no bad whores, just bad laws. Sex work is work - we deserve working rights and protections, not policies that criminalise our bodies, dehumanise us, and make our work places unsafe.
When you recognise sex work as work, you can no longer pathologise the workers and must recognise the driving forces behind entry into it (poverty, lack of alternatives, preferred labour). That’s why SWERFs can only either victimise or demonise individual workers.
The speech yesterday at the
@RedUmbrellaFrnt
vigil was largely about how the guards lead to the death of a worker in a car crash because they were literally running from the ‘we will save you by fining/arresting/deporting you’ guards who were chasing them. You terrify us.
As part of the Annual International Day to end violence against Sex Workers, Gardaí have reached out by way of text message to in excess of 1100 individuals working in the Sex Trade encouraging them to contact Gardaí in confidence if they are victims of violence / sexual Violence
Lads… ye realise ye can’t approach me with total nonsense/arseholery and expect I will take a booking from ya? No? Apparently not? Right. A blocked number it is ✨
My brain really does say “welcome to the stripper sleep deprivation tank” every morning when I have to go do something to the point that when a guy asked to borrow a pen in college I pure lagged as if he was speaking gibberish and looked like an asshole as he asked someone else🤦♀️