HavanaSyndromeVictim [she/her]
Like I keep seeing posts all over about not attacking sex workers, but I’m not seeing anything attacking.
when your idea of “not attacking sex workers” includes fostering/accepting rhetoric that continues the stigma against sex workers and that ramps up and supports active legislation that brings material harms, it’s pretty easy to be supportive.
Western leftists gobble up swerf rhetoric the way ‘progressives’ fervently support imperial propaganda.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
What does a focus on ‘trafficking’ mean materially? it means lots of NGOs, which everyone knows are only in it for the good of humanity, obvi
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I agree that this is a valid critique of individual sex workers , but it is often mailiciously leveled as a critique of all sex workers actively engaged in SW. This is a mistake. The arguments and rhetoric around sex work is all context-dependent, the terms and tropes that now seem monolithic or set in stone were grown from active material struggle, and separating and viewing those terms and tropes without the accurate historical background usually leads to misinterpretations and misrepresentations.
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here’s a podcast w one of the authors (no idea of pod quality), other than that I’m afraid I can’t spend a ton of time finding good summaries. https://radionapier.com/2018/10/25/changing-pages-revolting-prostitutes-the-fight-for-sex-workers-rights-molly-smith/
Additionally, here is an article with imo v solid material analysis as refutation of SWERF politics. might start another flame war tho lmao
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yessssss!! absolutely! to quote fanon on marx:
When you examine at close quarters the colonial context, it is evident that what parcels out the world is to begin with the fact of belonging to or not belonging to a given race, a given species. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, yon are white because you are rich. This is why Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to do with the colonial problem.
We as leftists can’t just take marx at face value, the material world marx observed is not the exact same material world we currently live under, and we need to adjust our analysis and internalize the lessons of the revolutionary struggles from the past century
Can I get a fuck SWERFs in the chat? :transshork-sad:
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The one critique I personally would aim at a sex worker (please let me know if this is ) rather than the industry, is when a hugely succesful and influential sex worker presents the industry as wholly good, or their story as the norm.
this is actively under contention in SWer theory circles. The dialectic between the Happy Hooker and the Trafficked Slave is really well explored in Revolting Prostitutes , which, from this thread, it is obvious not many people have read this solid work from SWers engaged in struggle
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Please please please
listen to actual sex workers
read theory by sex workers
research praxis by sex workers
listen to what sex workers say will materially hurt them and what will not
this is basic mass line shit, I am so fucking frustrated