My friend Bella is a full service sex worker and activist. She’s also a survivor of trafficking and incarceration (and SWERFs still tell her she’s “privileged”). She does decriminalization work, and tries to find housing, beds, and so on for at risk workers. She also deals with trafficking victims, they’re relatively rare, but they do exist, and so she finds this young woman who is in fact being trafficked. She doesn’t have anywhere to go.
Bella can’t have her stay with her because then the girl might be arrested for trafficking because Bella’s a fssw.
Bella gets in touch with the multi-million dollar budget per year Polaris Project, an anti-trafficking org, begging them to help her find this girl a safe place to stay.
Do you know what they tell her?
“We just raise awareness, we can’t help you.”
She goes through all the big anti-trafficking orgs, they do pro-criminalization legal work, they do awareness, but not one of them does anything for actual victims of trafficking.
So tell me again how you care for victims of sexual slavery? Tell me again how SWERFs fight for the sex workers who don’t have privilege? Tell me a-fucking-gain about how you care for sex workers?
Exit programs get women jobs that pay nothing, wages you can’t live on, because you middle class fucks prefer women to starve standing on tired aching feet, than to spend an hour on their back. You’ve never experienced material deprivation and so you think getting screamed at by fast food customers is somehow less dehumanizing than getting fucked.
Piss off.
Let’s take a moment to think of all the grant money, all the donations, all the money that goes to the Polaris Project and orgs like them in the mistaken belief that women will be helped thereby.
I wonder how many lives would be different (I wonder how many people who aren’t alive now might be) if that money actually went to provide services to the people they’re so concerned about.
Does anyone know any organizations that DO actually help sex workers?
The ones run by current sex workers, like Coyote, or just donating to sex workers directly, there’s also the red umbrella project, the erotic service providers union, and IU 690 in the Industrial Workers of The World, but like for people who need help with housing and such, donating directly or buying content from them helps
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 