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

    sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/

    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.
    change.org/p/pardon-keshia-gol
    gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-

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

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

    sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/

    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.
    change.org/p/pardon-keshia-gol
    gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-

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

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

    sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/

    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.
    change.org/p/pardon-keshia-gol
    gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-

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

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

    sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/

    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.
    change.org/p/pardon-keshia-gol
    gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-

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

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

    sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/

    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.
    change.org/p/pardon-keshia-gol
    gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-

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

  6. Pop Culture Library Review @popculturelibraries.wordpress.com@popculturelibraries.wordpress.com ·

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

    Veronica’s study/library shown in the fifth chapter of the Arte manga

    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.”

    What Arte says in the fifth chapter reflects how some people think of librarians. This view of Veronica changes as she gets to know her better

    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.

    Arte confronts Veronica in the seventh chapter and states her principles.

    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.

    #Arte #books #courtesans #Florence #history #ItalianWomen #Italy #libraryPatrons #quiet #reading #sexWork #studyRoom #studying #tutoring #Venice
  7. 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

  8. «Navigating emotional labor in sex work organizing»

    🗓 Thursday, September 10th
    💻 Online 🕕 18:00–20:00 UTC events.humanitix.com/navigatin

    > This class taught by Doc Domina explores ways in which the identities of SWer, Survivor, and Organizer influence Power Dynamics and layers of the created structure.

    > This class is free and open to people with lived experience in the sex trades.

    — New Moon Network 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWEvents #SpokesHub #WoodhullFreedomFoundation #NewMoonNetwork #Online #2026W37

  9. «Navigating emotional labor in sex work organizing»

    🗓 Thursday, September 10th
    💻 Online 🕕 18:00–20:00 UTC events.humanitix.com/navigatin

    > This class taught by Doc Domina explores ways in which the identities of SWer, Survivor, and Organizer influence Power Dynamics and layers of the created structure.

    > This class is free and open to people with lived experience in the sex trades.

    — New Moon Network 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWEvents #SpokesHub #WoodhullFreedomFoundation #NewMoonNetwork #Online #2026W37

  10. ​: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

  11. ​:boost_ok:​ Introduction​:boost_requested:​
    (Please boost ​:meow_blush:​)

    Hi, I'm
    Melo, a thirty-something years old white queer disabled trans girl, this account will be dedicated to sex work

    i'm really into overalls, fishnet, soft lightings and my own butt, so you'll see a lot of those in my sets
    😏

    I currently live in south of France with one of the best humans on earth and two of the best cats.

    I do electronics and programming as a hobby, and also some drawing and painting which i'm really bad at but appreciate doing.

    i'm your average geek girl that loves video and board games, scifi TV-shows and electronics.

    ​:meow_game_controller:​
    celeste
    ​:ablobcat_trampoline:​, hades ​:neofox_devil:​, mario kart ​:mariokart_peach:​, zelda ​:meow_hero_glow:​, pokemon ​:charmander_yay:​..

    ​:meow_popcorn:​
    drWho
    ​:tardis:​, Twilight zone ​:blobcat_oh_no:​, The Owl House ​:blobhaj_witch:​..

    ​:ablobcat_dj:​
    techno, punk, rap, pop..



    here we are against every cage, supremacy, exploitation !

    we want (with many other things) the abolition of gender, capitalism, racism, jail, ableism, speciesism, sanism...




    i'll try to always cw correctly my content, tell me if i fail, i also always do alt text, feel free to criticize it.


    cw: selfies, eye contact

    #introductions #introduction #sexWork #sexWorker #presentation #transwoman #trans #transNsfw #nsfw #tGirl

  12. «The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

    👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
    🗓 2025-03-09
    🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
    📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 faction.press/shop/p/the-missi

    > Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

    > Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

    > ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

    -

    Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

    Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
    Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

    It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

    #SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

  13. «The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

    👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
    🗓 2025-03-09
    🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
    📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 faction.press/shop/p/the-missi

    > Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

    > Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

    > ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

    -

    Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

    Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
    Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

    It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

    #SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

  14. «The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

    👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
    🗓 2025-03-09
    🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
    📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 faction.press/shop/p/the-missi

    > Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

    > Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

    > ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

    -

    Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

    Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
    Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

    It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

    #SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

  15. «The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

    👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
    🗓 2025-03-09
    🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
    📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 faction.press/shop/p/the-missi

    > Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

    > Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

    > ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

    -

    Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

    Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
    Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

    It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

    #SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

  16. «The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

    👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
    🗓 2025-03-09
    🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
    📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 faction.press/shop/p/the-missi

    > Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

    > Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

    > ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

    -

    Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

    Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
    Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

    It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

    #SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

  17. CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.

    «Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»

    prostitutescollective.net/stat

    > Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.

    > Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.

    > ECP’s Niki Adams said:

    > “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”

    > Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.

    — English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧

    -

    More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.

    «The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
    prostitutescollective.net/the-

    «BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
    prostitutescollective.net/bbc-

    «Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
    prostitutescollective.net/vide

    «Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
    prostitutescollective.net/vide

    -

    Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.

    * Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.

    Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮‍💨

    [For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
    “But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
    There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
    No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]

    -

    PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².

    This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.

    When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.

    Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮‍💨

    #DecrimNow, dangit!

    ¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: kolektiva.social/@yenndc/11714

    ² On moral panics in the Netherlands: kolektiva.social/@yenndc/11714

    #EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026

  18. «Hard Labour»

    🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
    🏙️ Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    📍 Transmission Gallery
    (28 King Street)
    ✍️ Tickets: eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-
    ℹ️ All information: arika.org.uk/hard-labour/

    > All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!

    > Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.

    > Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.

    > Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.

    > Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.

    > Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.

    ‣ Programme:

    🗓️ Friday 21st
    • «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
    🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
    • «Drinks and Nibbles»
    🕔 17:00–18:30
    • «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
    🕡 18:30–19:45
    👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla

    🗓 Saturday 22nd
    • «Sex Worker Breakfast»
    🕥 10:30–12:30
    🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
    • «Tell Me About It»
    🕜 14:30–17:30
    👥 The Human Library
    • «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
    🕗 20:00–21:30
    👥 Carnal Productions

    🗓 Sunday 22nd
    • «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
    🕚 11:00–12:00
    👥 Five Rivers Massage
    • «Stripper Life Drawing»
    🕛 12:00–14:00
    👥 East London Stripper Collective
    • «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
    🕜 14:30–16:30
    👤 Chaoying Rao
    • «Badgemaking Workshop»
    🕞 15:30–17:30
    👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”

    RE: rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglym

    #SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34

  19. «Sex Worker Support Group»

    🗓 Friday, July 31st ⏳ 1:30h
    🕚 23:00 UTC / 🕢 19:00 EDT
    💻 Online (Google Meet)
    ✍️ RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/1988243127717
    🌐 Announcement on website: decrim305.org/events/sex-work-
    🎯 SWers only! 👠

    > A space for current and former sex workers to build community, network, and vent about the job. Every last Friday of the month.

    #SexWork #SWEvents #Decrim305 #Online #2026W31

  20. Felt cute, time to sleep! I'll be back with a new #vibrator from HoneyPlay during the News #Flash, come test it out ;)
    Tonight we're taking one step forward two steps back with #sex work decrim updates & AI's two uses: #Porn & hacking other #tech bros!

    #sapiosexial #findom #femdom #sexwork #camming #camgirl #sexworkiswork #sexynerd

  21. CW: Lewd clothed pic

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    I’ll post my tits today if I make $20 in tips! 🥵
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  22. CW: Lewd clothed clip

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    #alttext #sexwork #seller

  23. and I know most of you don't have money either and all, but swers also need to eat, and what you don't NEED is free porn.

    is even boosting, that doesn't cost you anything, too much when you're all here saying to anyone that YOU support sw?

    will we need to go on a fucking fedi targeted strike to get "leftist" to just show basic support for our work ?

    even you will struggle believe your own vocal and proud #sexWorkIsWork if you have to only watch bot boosted stolen porn or pornhub 🙄

    #sexwork

  24. CW: A little spicy but betasafe

    This naughty newscaster is live & gushing to talk about tonight's topic, the things I can give you that AI can't ;)
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  25. «Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»

    🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
    💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
    ✍️ Inscription: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist
    👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)

    #ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25

  26. Fuck am I gonna copy any of that wall of text over here but oh my god I'm having a Final Straw moment I think. I'm not the only one either. This week seems to have been a breaking point for so many of my friends as well. Shit is just so tiring. It just gets worse.

    #sexworkiswork #sexwork #porn

  27. > «ACCESS TO JUSTICE»

    > This is the theme of the INTERNATIONAL SEX WORKERS' DAY 2026.

    > TAMPEP calls for an immediate end of the stigmatization of sex workers! Together with sex workers across Europe, we ask for equal rights.

    > The working and living conditions of sex workers in Europe, mainly migrant sex workers, remain characterized by precarious circumstances. Discrimination, stigmatization and the increasing call for restrictive laws, particularly at EU level, are further exacerbating the situation.

    > Sex workers’ communities, worldwide, therefore commemorate that day to call attention and make demands.

    #TAMPEP 🇪🇺 #Europe

    -

    > Every June 2nd we celebrate one of the most important days in the year: International Sex Workers' Day!

    > This day marks the anniversary of the legendary occupation of the St Nizier church in Lyon, France, by a group of sex workers. They claimed the church for eight days to demand safety, dignity, and labour rights. Their bravery ignited a global movement that continues to inspire us every year.

    #SWAN 🇪🇺 #CEECA

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    > International Sex Workers' Rights Day. Sex work is work.

    > We demand the full recognition, protection, and fulfilment of sex workers' labour, health, and human rights in law and policy.

    > Nothing about sex workers without sex workers. Sex workers are organisers, leaders, and agents of change. Their voices must be at the centre of all decisions that affect their lives.

    > We reject all forms of criminalisation of sex work. We reject the ongoing conflation of sex work with trafficking and gender-based violence, narratives that fuel stigma, increase harm, and strip people of rights and safety. Sex workers' rights are human rights!

    > Today, we amplify the voices of TGEU Board Members Tayri Fadil (she/her) and Alex Shah (she/her).

    > “Today we honour SWers leading the struggle. We demand full decriminalisation, labour rights, and legal protection for migrant and trans SWers. End police harassment and persecution. Solidarity, resistance, and collective power until we win justice and safety for all SWers.” — Tayri Fadil

    > “On this day, we amplify the political demands of sex workers for full decriminalisation, labour recognition, social protection, migration justice, and freedom from state violence, surveillance, and stigma. This day is a transnational call for bodily autonomy, intersectional justice, and the unequivocal protection of sex workers’ human rights. Sex workers are the ancient, present, and future of labour.” — Alex Shah

    > Follow our friends at ESWA to stay up to date with the sex worker movement. #SexWork #SexWorkIsWork #EndTheStigma #RightsNotRescue #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

    #TGEU 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️

    -

    #SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #Europe

  28. > Today, we're honouring the strength and resilience, and solidarity of sex workers across Africa and around the world. We celebrate the people who continue to support one another, speak up for their rights, build community, and keep pushing for a more just and inclusive world.

    > This day is about us our voices, our stories, our lives, and our right to live free from violence, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization.

    > Join us as we celebrate our community, our achievements, and the ongoing fight for dignity, justice, and decriminalization.

    > #ISWD2026 #InternationalSexWorkersDay #RedUmbrella #AccessToJustice #DecriminalizationNow #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights #ASWAAlliance

    > «International Sex Workers' Day», 2 June 2026. A day to honor courage, resistance, and the ongoing fight for justice…

    #ASWA Alliance 🌍 #Africa

    -

    [Oops, somehow missed this one yesterday… 😅 Well, uploaded now. ^^]

    #SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026

  29. > International Sex Workers' Day ❤️

    > Today commemorates the occupation of the Saint-Nizier church in Lyon on 2 June 1975 by 100+ sex workers.

    > Advocating for the full decriminalization of SW and pushing back against discrimination, systemic abuse, and violence directed at SWers.

    > #SexWorkIsWork! 👠

    #NZPC 🇳🇿 #NewZealand

    #SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026

  30. > Today, KNESWO Feminist Initiative stands in solidarity with refugee, migrant, and internally displaced sex workers in all their diversity.

    > Sex workers' rights are human rights. Dignity, safety, justice, and equality for all.

    > #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights #KNESWO

    #KNESWO 🇰🇪 #Kenya

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    > Today, on International Sex Workers’ Day, we honor the resilience, courage, and contributions of sex workers worldwide.

    > Every person deserves dignity, safety, access to healthcare, and protection from violence, discrimination, and stigma. Sex workers’ rights are human rights.

    > Together, let us amplify their voices, challenge harmful stereotypes, and advocate for policies that promote justice, inclusion, and equality for all.

    > #InternationalSexWorkersDay2026 #EndTheStigma

    #AWAC 🇺🇬 #Uganda

    -

    > On this International Sex Workers Day Sisonke_ZA expresses deep concern at the continued delays in advancing the decriminalisation of sex work into law.

    > The criminalisation of sex work creates conditions that enable abuse, exploitation and discrimination. #HumanRights

    #Sisonke 🇿🇦 #SouthAfrica

    -

    > #June2 we commemorate #InternationalSexWorkersDay to honour the courage, resilience and ongoing struggle of sex workers for dignity, human rights, health, safety and #Justice.

    > When #SWs are safe, healthy and empowered, communities are stronger and inclusive for everyone.

    #AWA 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe

    > June 2 marks #InternationalSexWorkersDay, honoring lives lost to violence and stigma since 1975.Chisungo Trust remembers, resists, and continues the work.We fight for: ✔️ Decriminalization ✔️ Access to health ✔️ An end to violence against Male Sex Workers #SexWorkIsWork.

    #ChisungoTrust 🇿🇼

    > 🚨 Today on International Sex Workers’ Day, Springs of Life Zimbabwe demands an end to the systemic violence and criminalization of sex workers. Why is their safety treated as optional? No one should live in fear of assault.We call on the government to urgently decriminalize sex work the ZRP to end arbitrary arrests, and healthcare systems to provide stigma-free care.

    > "Sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights." — Ms. Precious Msindo, Programmes Coordinator.

    > #ISWD2026 #DecriminalizeSexWork #EndGBV #Zimbabwe

    #SoLZ 🇿🇼

    -

    #SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #Africa

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  32. «Transactional Intercourse»

    👤 Editor: Jack Parker
    🗓️ April 27th 2026
    🆔 ISBN: 978-17-38495-56-6
    🛒 Physical: jackviolet.store/product/order
    🛒 PDF: jackviolet.store/product/trans
    🛒 EBook (?): jackparker.gumroad.com/l/trans

    > Transactional Intercourse is an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' writing, serving as a snapshot of our experiences in our own words. It includes essays and personal narratives from 30 sex workers who either sell sex directly to clients or make porn, across the sex and gender spectrum.

    > I'm tired of looking for stories from trans and intersex sex workers and finding far more instances of people speaking over us than instances where we get to speak for ourselves. I'm angry that when I do find documentaries or writing where we are featured and get the chance to express our thoughts, those involved have frequently gone unpaid and been treated poorly in the process of sharing. I'm devastated that we're so often gawked at or framed as dangerous deviants by people who gain money and notoriety from broadcasting the details of our trauma and ridiculing our joy. We deserve better, and I hope the anthology Transactional Intercourse can be a part of that!

    -

    💙❤️🤍❤️💙
    ✨ It's here! 🔥
    💛💜💛💜💛

    Well, it's been for four days, but today is the book recommendation one. 😅
    Nevermind tho, let's get to the point: this absolute jewel of a book. 💎

    The work is about as self-describing as it can get: a compilation of life stories and reflections of trans and intersex people in the sex trade. ❣️

    All three represent collectives that tend to remain on the sidelines and even actively silenced — never mind their intersection…

    This book puts the focus right where it belongs: on the people living at these intersections, on their own voices.

    It includes both the good, the bad and the ugly — because even among a relatively limited population, sex work experiences are all over the place, and none actually deserves being left out.

    Of course, due to practical limitations, there are certainly going to be some that couldn't make it in —no matter how comprehensive it were, there'd always be— but nevertheless, one thing is certain:
    You'll hardly find a comparable collection anywhere. 💞

    #SexWork #Trans #Intersex #Anthology #SWBooks #TransActionalInterCourse #LGBTIQ #LGBTI #LGBTQI #Book #Books #NonFiction #Bookstodon #April2026

  33. «8th Annual Black Sex Worker Conference in Berlin»

    🗓️ 25th–28th April 2026
    🇩🇪🏙 Berlin 📍 Ashawo Café
    (Exerzierstraße 13)
    💶 0–50€ (see 👉) 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/the-8th-annua

    > 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 thebswc.eventbrite.com. Other donation options will be available at the door each day.
    > Come through and build with us.

    -

    🧵 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 thebswc.org
    ² instagram.com/p/DWRgMhQCBxm/

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

  34. Community video premiere «Here's What Sex Workers Want You To Know» 🗓️ Tuesday 3rd #March2026 🕒 15:00 CET 🌐 Streaming 👈 [🧵(6/15) ESWA Monthly, Feb2026, campaigning.] #SexWork #Premiere #CommunityVideo #ESWA #SexWorkersRightsDay

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:67fs6ab7mapfexiggiuss3kf/post/3mfrbs26uls2s

  35. ESWA's community video premiere: «What Sex Workers Wish the World Knew»

    🗓 Tuesday 3rd, March 2026
    🕒 15:00 CET 💻 Online (with live chat)
    🌐 youtube.com/watch?v=FOp1q9x2qRw 👈

    🎂 25º Sex Workers' Rights Day

    > Sex work is always a hot topic, but hardly ever covered by those who actually live its realities.
    > While film studios, directors and journalists profit off our stories, sex workers' voices remain silenced and gaslit. Views on sex work are shaped by a distorted caricature of our industry produced by mainstream media. Those mindsets lead to harmful legislation, discrimination and violence.

    > This community video, initiated on Sex Workers' Pride and premiering on Sex Workers' Rights Day, aims to counter stereotypes with real lived experiences. Sex workers share what they wish the world knew about us and our work.

    #SexWork #ESWA #CommunityVideo #SexWorkersRightsDay #Europe #March2026

  36. My friend, Ginger Kittens(Sarah) of our local #CheesecakeBurlesqueRevue troupe, is an amazing woman. She's overcome many traumas & uplifted herself. A graduate of UVIC women's studies, longtime #PEERSVictoria support worker & advocate for legalized #SexWork.
    We were threatened by local VicPD & bullied by Conservative jerks after doing a #RedUmbrella annual memorial rally to support #SexWorkers & to honour all sex workers lives lost & to demand those cases get investigated & to demand a stop to marginalization of sex workers.

    #VictoriaBC #Burlesque #Performers #PerformingArts #ArtOfTease #BehindTheScenes #BCBurlesque #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #fencenet #MonochromeMonday #portraits #pinup #BWphoto