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«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

A library as a show piece?: Art patrons, a Florentine cortigiana onestà, and an in-house library study in “Arte”

Back in November 2024, I wrote about the anime adaptation of Arte, which is set in Renaissance-era Italy, noting the library scenes in four episodes, noting how in the episode “Courtesan”,  the protagonist, Arte, goes with her master, Leonardo, to the house of Veronica, a courtesan, and they visit her study. While there, she marvels at how impressive the library is, with Veronica saying she needs to entertain her gentleman callers with education, and she offers to let Arte borrow books from her collection, with the latter saying that while standing in her library she can’t view her with anything but respect, saying her respect is for how hard she works, not her profession. It is in this same place that Veronica counsels Arte on her love for her master, Leo, and where Arte realizes that while she will listen to Veronica, she can’t forgive how she treats her clients, as she learns what it truly means to be a prostitute.

In that same post, I also noted the brief library scene in the next episode (the fifth in the series), entitled “Inseparable Bond”, in which Arte goes to the library/study to get Veronica’s advice on speaking to a difficult client, and in the beginning of the eighth episode, entitled “A New Chapter”. In that episode, Arte and Veronica again talk in her study/library, with Veronica saying she couldn’t imagine Florence without Arte, and bidding her farewell as she prepares for her Venice trip. It is implied then that Darcia talks to Veronica afterward about reading (Arte teaches her to read), but not directly shown. In the final episode of the anime adaptation, entitled “Apprentice”, Leo visits Veronica in her study/library, and they talk about the art commission she is offering him, and she is willing to pay him more to make a good artwork (and to buy expensive materials), and she jokes that Arte “she prefers Venice over Florence,” something which likely gets to him, without a doubt. The manga is a bit different.

Veronica is introduced in the fourth chapter, but Arte and Leo do not meet her until the fifth chapter, when she is, again, called a cortigiana. At the time, cortigiana, meaning courtesan, some called them palace ladies, or donna di palazzo. Veronica would undoubtedly be a cortigiana onestà, which one scholar called “the high-­‐class figure of female influence who achieved an unparalleled level of emancipation in the profoundly patriarchal world of Renaissance Italy.” [1] In the fifth chapter, she is described as renting a house with the money she makes as a courtsean (what we would now call a sex worker) and like in the episode “Courtesan” I mentioned earlier, Arte is impressed, and after Veronica declares she has read every book there, Arte is even more in awe. And she even gets to borrow books from the study, with Arte saying she respects Veronica’s hard work.

It is thanks to that fascination she gets her first commission, just as she does in the anime. She admires how intellectual Veronica is and is undoubtedly appreciative when she tells her that the feelings she has for Leo are romantic. Again, this generally follows the anime, including when she sees the terrible conditions that lower-class courtesans work within, and what love can do to someone, a narrative which continues into chapter six. Veronica is the one that tells her she doesn’t “have time” for love. The library itself continues to be shown as somewhere where Veronica shines, above anything else, giving her an allure of someone learned. All the while she treats her clients in a way that Arte (and most) find disreputable. This continues in chapter seven, when she dreads having to give Veronica the painting. An interesting scene, not in the anime, is when Leo comes to meet with Veronica, who says she will pay for the portrait in time, not “like one of those cheap prostitutes.”

The scene goes so far that Leo says that Arte keeps “acting strange,” then she won’t be working at his workshop anymore, leading Veronica to advocate for Arte, saying it would be cruel to fire her, and saying she has taken a liking to Arte. This creates an interesting comparison between Arte, an apprentice barely earning anything, to Veronica, which he finds curious. Later on, Arte realizes she has to set things right, and realizes that Veronica hides “her struggles below her smiles.” She ends up giving her the painting, saying that while she can’t condone how Veronica treats her clients, she is doing it to have an independent life, and works hard in many ways. It is also revealed she is providing for the rest of her family as well!

Even so, Veronica acknowledges the job is “sinful” but she will continue to keep her smile until she dies. Even after all of this, she still wants to advise Arte on anything troubling her, as a friend, and Arte accepts this, as she knows it is important to have someone like her as a friend. In an interesting article I found, one scholar wrote that “during the Italian Renaissance, mythology and art contributed to the increasing popularity of the cortigiana, or courtesan.” That actually does fit with the series, with Veronica as an art patron! The latter is mentioned by Arte to Angelo in the next chapter. In the process of that discussion and others, she breaks through Angelo’s paternalistic attitude that girls need to be protected by men.

Some chapters later, Arte meets Veronica again in the library (at the end of chapter 10), [2] which continues in the next chapter, when she helps Arte negotiate with Ubertino. She reveals that he worked in the wool trade. What she tells Arte allows her to hold her own, teaching her everything from the beginning step by step, including proper posture, speech, and listening skills. She uses to this to appeal to him, especially using her lace art drawings, to pull him in. Veronica’s role in what some, historically, would call an “honored courtesan,” continues to be a major plot point in the story. In fact, Arte visits Veronica again in the beginning of the sixteenth chapter, when she gets a painting from Arte which she wants to keep herself, rather than giving it as a gift to someone. All the while, Veronica says she is expecting things from her, and she feels embarrassed to talk to her, like she is doing something “forbidden.”

It is her running into a Venetian noble afterward and his talking to Veronica, again in the study/library, is what leads Arte to her job in Venice. This is almost exactly what is portrayed in the anime. The same can be said of the eighteenth chapter, when Arte goes to Veronica again, this time asking about a dispute involving the daughter of Leo’s art master (Lusanna), in which she says that disputes over money involving widows is common. She is the one which gives the idea to Arte to approach a person with status and power: the Venetian noble (Mr. Yuri Falier) who wants her to travel to Venice to tutor his cousin, for a six-month period. Even Veronica is surprised that Arte is going so suddenly to Venice in the next chapter, saying it will be a “little lonely” in Florence without her. Again, it is implied that Dacia will go visit Veronica to get books to continue her study of reading and writing.

Unlike in the anime, at the end of the nineteenth chapter, Dacia does visit Veronica, and is very nervous, saying she is only there because she is Arte’s friend. Veronica convinces her to sit and chat down for a bit, but no more is shown, because the story moves onto the next chapter. Nor does it appear in any other chapter, sadly. In fact, there aren’t any library scenes going forward as the story moves to the Venetian arc and there aren’t any scenes in Florence!

In writing this post, I am reminded what Italian history scholar Margaret F. Rosenthal wrote back in November 2018 for Renaissance Quarterly, examining how one cortigiana onestà, also known an “intellectual courtsean,” named Veronica Franco, was restricted in her professional activities, or whether socal forces compelled or contained her “cultivation of a literary identity” in Venetian society, and the maneuvers she adopted when she “obtained entrance into an elite literary circle.” [3] Similarly, another webpage I found comes to mind: cortigiana, like Veronica, enjoyed a “glamorous lifestyle augmented by an education that enabled intellectual interactions in a secular rather than a religious domain.” This was even reflected in paintings like the strongly erotic “Portrait of a Woman known as The Courtesan” by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio in about 1520. [4]

Ultimately, whether the library is a showpiece for Veronica or not, it is also a symbol of how she is a thinking person, an intellectual in her own right. The study/library is a place she can be here own, a place she can be dominant, more than anyone else.

© 2024-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] There’s even a Wikipedia page entitled “List of Italian Renaissance courtesans.”

[2] The aftermath of chapter 10, a feature describes her as “busty.”

[3] This article comes as no surprise considering that she wrote a book in 1992 entitled The Honest Courtesan about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th-century Venice.

[4] Also see “Private Lives and Public Lies: Texts by Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance” by Fiora A. Bassanese.

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
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#swerSaturday #sexWork

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !

#swerSaturday #sexWork

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !

#swerSaturday #sexWork

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !

#swerSaturday #sexWork

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !

#swerSaturday #sexWork

​:charmander_yay:​

ok i'm kinda back (i still will have many things to manage, maybe i'll move to another home soon ​:blob_fingerscrossed:​)

still figuring out who i lost while migrating my account,
If you are a sex worker and i don't follow you back, ping me, in dm if you want, i'm overwhelmed and might miss some of you 💜

#sexWork #sexWorker

J'ai hâte de pouvoir retrouver une 2e cam 🥺🥵 ça me manque que vous puissiez pas voir ce qu'il se passe sous le bureau en POV quand je joue

#camgirl #hottie #sexwork #fansly #stripchat #suggestive #cosy #sundayfreepic

You get a lot of notifications.

How do you know if you're actually special to someone, or if they just interact a lot with everyone?

... We'll show you. 😉

You get a lot of notifications.

How do you know if you're actually special to someone, or if they just interact a lot with everyone?

... We'll show you. 😉

You get a lot of notifications.

How do you know if you're actually special to someone, or if they just interact a lot with everyone?

... We'll show you. 😉

Simon Levy murders: has anything changed in policing since Sarah Everard’s killing?
By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Experts say the attackers’ behaviour, and the handling of their cases, have striking similarities

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/simon-levy-murders-has-anything-changed-in-policing-since-sarah-everard-killing

#Crime #Metropolitanpolice #Rapeandsexualassault #Women #UKnews #Sexwork #London #Police #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Law #England #CrownProsecutionService #TheGuardian #VikramDoddPolice #crimecorrespondent

Simon Levy murders: has anything changed in policing since Sarah Everard’s killing? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/simon-levy-murders-has-anything-changed-in-policing-since-sarah-everard-killing #Crime #MetropolitanPolice #RapeAndSexualAssault #Women #UkNews #SexWork #London #Police #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #Law #England #CrownProsecutionService

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dee/116668028139418851

Support trans sex workers.

#trans #sexWorker #sexwork #sexworkiswork #sexworkersrightsarehumanrights #transsexworker #transsexworkers

RE: https://rheinneckar.social/@andereanna/116555719828009145

I mean, I'm not going to Germany just to watch a film, but can I just squeal in glee regardless..? 😍💞

🗓 Monday 1st June 2026
🏙️ Heidelberg 🕕 18:00 🇩🇪
📍 Hauptstraße 146

🎟️ Film info and tickets: https://www.gloria-kamera-kinos.de/de/programm-tickets/gloria-gloriette-altstadt#afeacd57f1c4474e2eafeccebbef9533

#SexWork #Germany #ISWD #FilmScreening #J2 #ISWD2026 #2026W23

🧵 ESWA Monthly March 2026 (10/10): Recommendations (2/2).

‣ Aprosex will present the teaser of their documentary, “La Piel que Arde (Skin that burns)”, March 31st.

[⚠️ Please note this is already over… It is an important step on the project, tho; so I'm still sharing it. ❤️]

> March 31st, a teaser of the film “La Piel que Arde (Skin that burns)”, will be screened. The film was produced by Aprosex and MamaCash. It was made by a team made up entirely of sex workers, behind and in front of the cameras. They have been working on the film for the past two years and say of the project, “We've created this film under the rise of fascism that permeates conservative concepts, which consolidates prohibitionist discourse against sex workers, erasing historical fights that sex workers in our country have achieved in order to secure our rights, thus we create a counterpart in which we create an eternal archive to remember our fellow comrades”.

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Spanish announcement: 🐘 https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/116316595882151101

#SexWork #Spain #Aprosex #LaPielQueArde #Teaser

«8th Annual Black Sex Worker Conference in Berlin»

🗓️ 25th–28th April 2026
🇩🇪🏙 Berlin 📍 Ashawo Café
(Exerzierstraße 13)
💶 0–50€ (see 👉) 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-8th-annual-black-swer-conference-tickets-1986057905659?aff=oddtdtcreator

> The 8th Annual Black Sex Worker Conference is back, April 25–28 in Berlin, under the organization theme “This Bridge Called Our Backs.”

> This year, we’re building, holding, and crossing that bridge together through live sessions with Marbeliete, Godxxx Noirphiles, and new member Magdaline Lipesa, plus powerful pre-recorded sessions from our previous Villainous conference.

> With support from Mama Cash and Guerilla Fund, we’re continuing to center access and community. €100 scholarships are available for up to 10 local migrant, Black, and Sex Worker communities.

> No traditional tickets, entry is through membership donations available ahead of the conference by visiting https://thebswc.eventbrite.com. Other donation options will be available at the door each day.
> Come through and build with us.

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🧵 ESWA Monthly March 2026 (8/10), Opportunities (3/3).

> The Black Sex Worker Collective¹ will host the 8th Annual Black Sex Worker Conference under the organisation theme, "This Bridge Called Our Backs”. They explain on their Instagram² that, “This year, we’re building, holding, and crossing that bridge together through live sessions with Marbeliete, Godxxx Noirphiles, and new member Magdaline Lipesa, plus powerful pre-recorded sessions from our previous Villainous conference. With support from Mama Cash and Guerilla Fund, we’re continuing to center access and community. €100 scholarships are available for up to 10 local migrant, Black, and Sex Worker communities”.

¹ https://thebswc.org
² https://www.instagram.com/p/DWRgMhQCBxm/

#SexWork #BSWC #BSWCBerlin #BlackSexWorkerCollective #BlackSexWorkerConference #BlackSexWorkerConference2026 #BuildingBridges #Berlin #Germany #2026W17 #2026W18

Tonight on #NSFW NewsFlash: Average #penis size has been on the rise, #butt why?
#Cum on a journey with me down menmory lane as we figure it out!
#GRWM #clubhouse is up now chatting platform updates & obituaries (RIP)
Live with @RileySynn on our #spicy sites soon for the #flash portion of the #news :P
#lovense toys are charged & ready for goofy #gooners, funny #finsubs, punny #paypigs, & silly #simps to set them off!
#femdom #adultcontent #findom #sexwork #sexworkiswork #porn

📕 L'ALBA DELLA NOSTRA LIBERTÀ 📕

Martedì 7 aprile, dalle 19:30 alle 21:30, presso Circolo San Luis 1946, via Don Bosco, 7, Milano

Verso il 25 aprile, in avvicinamento a Partigian* in Ogni Quartiere, presentiamo di L’alba della nostra libertà di Barbara Cagni, edito da @fazieditore

Un romanzo che restituisce attenzione alle partigiane che hanno combattuto per la libertà ricostruendo gli anni della Resistenza in una casa di tolleranza a Milano.

Ne parliamo con l’autrice, Barbara Cagni, e una sex worker per rivivere quel periodo da un punto di vista poco esplorato e riflettere sul presente.

Martedì 7 aprile ore 19.30 al @circolosanluis1946

#PartigianiInOgniQuartiere #zam #SexWork #PresentazioneLibro #liberazione

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

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‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

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‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

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‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

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‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

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‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

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‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

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‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

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‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

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A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

«Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

Festival kvír vědomostí

https://akce.nolog.cz/event/festival-kvir-vedomosti

Sex workers in a #brothel in France, circa 1910.

"Sex work is not the oldest profession in the world; anthropologists have found no evidence of selling sex within numerous (so called) primitive societies. The northern hill tribes of Thailand had no word for prostitution, and Victorian explorers were surprised to discover that the Dyak people of Borneo had ‘no word to express that vice’, and when Christian missionary, Lorrin Andrews, translated the bible into Hawaiian in 1865, he had to invent new words to teach the islanders about the concept of sexual shame, and infidelity. But, wherever you find money, you also find sex work."

Source: Kate Lister | Sex Work Expert

#sexwork #historyofprostitution #Indigenous #Capitalism

wanting to cheer at every word for cyndi darnells talk on sex work mental health and stigma at #pinkconf23 #therapy #sexwork #therapistsconnect #TherapistsofMastodon

cpd for therapists and mental health professionals working with sex workers https://pink-therapy-training.teachable.com/p/working-with-sex-workers #therapy #TherapistsofMastodon #therapistsconnect #sexwork #SexWorkIsWork

one of the activities today was asking workshop attendees to put the first word which came to mind when they thought of sex work onto the sheets - try it ‐ then notice if you try to change it to something else - in this dance we start to unpack our projections and unconscious biases #sexwork #TherapistsofMastodon #therapistsconnect #lgbttherapy #queertherapy #lgbtq #nonbinary #

leading a workshop on removing barriers when therapists work with sex workers today (focusing in internalised prejudices and unconscious bias) If anyone else is at the Rainbow Therapists conference say hi! #TherapistsofMastodon #therapistsconnect #Pride #PrideMonth #SexWork

#today I've got a work gig at a #spanking party with a Victorian dress code. Need to look good to cishet male clients, but also want to express my genderqueerness. I'm inspired by Anne Lister's costumes in #GentlemanJack. Wish I had the budget to get some high quality replicas! Instead I'll be cobbling something together from what I've got...

#nonbinary #costume #SexWork