HavanaSyndromeVictim [she/her]
O7 me too friend, we’ll get through this together :amerikkka-clap:
Esperanza can call everyone who disagrees with her white petit boug neoliberals, but it doesn’t change the fact that her and her organization push for carceral reforms that will hurt the most marginalized and vulnerable. don’t come at me misrepresenting my position as beginning and ending with “sex work is work,” or acting like I’ve done zero fucking research. maybe if you looked into the people who “attack” Esperanza and her position, you would see that they’re predominantly POC SWers actively engaging in struggle for labor rights.
edit: gonna drop these links for context for anyone else who comes across this, ctrl-f for ‘Sections’ to get to argument table of contents in the first piece
TW SA
what does Esperanza advocate?
“The Equality Model” aka rebranded Nordic Model, which decriminalizes prostitution but leaves all other parties involved criminalized. What other parties? surely just johns and pimps right???
Af3irm will have you believe that will end the demand for the sex trade and save everyone. In actuality these policies are carried out by the carceral state, social workers and associated programs are just another arm of that system.
When partial criminalization occurs, the stigma toward sex workers is not reduced. We can see this shit in action w FOSTA/SESTA, where even hosting SWers in an online space to meet or discuss is criminalized. How does this help collectivization and solidarity without further atomizing and hyper-individualizing this struggle?
Imagine calling yourself leftist and your analysis beginning and ending with what you’ve heard on podcasts, rather than from workers in active struggle. Thanks for taking the bait and bringing this out into the open, it’s been bugging me how under the radar it’s been
damn, you really got me with that one tbh :xi-clap:
I do think the scandinavian solution of keeping it illegal to purchase but legal to sell works the best for keeping dynamics in the favor of the prostitute.
you think this ‘works the best’ based on what? your direct experiences organizing? Your wide array of SW specific theory? help me understand, where does this knowledge come from?
:angel-biblical-shh: I love it 🥺
one overview w quote https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/an-ideal-blueprint-the-original-black-panther-party-model-and-why-it-should-be-duplicated?rq=lumpenproletariat
Over the years, Marx’s assessment and discarding of the “lumpenproletariat” - a population that he described as “members of the working-class outside of the wage-labor system who gain their livelihoods through crime and other aspects of the underground economy such as prostitutes, thieves, drug dealers, and gamblers” - had been accepted by many on the Left. However, the BPP’s familiarity with Zedong and Guevara led them away from this commonly accepted notion, and their philosophy paralleled that of Frantz Fanon, who in his ongoing analysis of neocolonialism, deemed the lumpen to be “one of the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people.”