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graceyswer 🇵🇸

4 months

A reminder to carry naloxone/narcan with you at all times. In the UK, we are seeing nitazenes in the drug supply in benzos, tramadol, heroin etc. You may not think it will impact you because you don't think you're taking opioids.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

If you're shocked by how the police are treating women at the vigils, then I hate to inform you that it's significantly worse for sex working, trans and black women. Remember they're acting this way when the camera is on them, imagine what they're like when nobody is around.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

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In 1 week, a sex worker has taken down a US President and another has thrown a milkshake at a fascist. Brilliant.

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The Daily Heil accidentally making her even more iconic.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Banning sex work does not stop sex work, it causes unsafe sex work

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

@JoannaMelville I agree, everyone regardless of their job should be able to afford to live alone!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

It's Intersex Awareness Day, and so I'm here to write a thread about me and growing up with CAH It occurs in roughly 1 in 18,000 births, so quite rare! However, for girls, it causes ambiguous genitalia, whereby I am born 'genetically' female, but have masculine genitalia

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

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@latkedelrey Essex. I'm from Essex with a similar accent!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

stealthing (removing a condom) is absolutely rape

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

The women who were killed by Peter Sutcliffe: Marguerite Walls, Yvonne Pearson, Jayne MacDonald, Josephine Whitaker, Wilma McCann, Patricia Atkinson, Helen Rytka, Jacqueline Hill, Irene Richardson, Vera Millward, Barbara Leach, Jean Jordan and Emily Jackson.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Sex workers should teach sex education

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

18 months after finishing my degree, an Academic Appeal panel for my grade, 2 cancelled graduation ceremonies I finally have my degree! I was an access student, first to go to uni in my family & became a heroin using sex worker in my final year, but I got there!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Wish there was the same outrage about street sex workers being locked up, abused or left homeless

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

outlawing sex work does not stop sex work, it promotes unsafe sex work

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

sex work itself isn't dangerous, it is made dangerous by violent clients, the law, police, poverty, marginalisation and stigma

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I got the job, time to represent sex workers at Rape Crisis

graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

just applied to be a trustee at a rape crisis centre, and very openly said I was a sex worker, and that we are often excluded... wish me luck!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

A reminder of what radical feminists really think of sex workers

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

removing a condom (stealthing) is rape

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

Finally got to see the new outreach van for street-based sex workers! Last year, myself and @k8_lister raised £40,000 to buy this & here it is! There's a toilet, confidential space, lots of storage, microwave, running water, fridge & space to relax. I'm absolutely over the moon!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I got the job!

graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Interview for my dream job is done, but I can still volunteer for them anyway, so it's a win-win for me!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Stop shaming sex workers who are working through the pandemic. Nobody is helping us financially. We don't want to be working either, but we have to.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

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@k8_lister Them brushed curls

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@graceyswer

4 years

sex work is just a way for me to pay bills, eat and get by, it really is not what it is depicted to be by feminists or the media it is neither liberally empowering or a mass exploitation complex, and it's actually really boring

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

how can it be argued that sex work is not work, but being a landlord is?

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

@miapaigewhite @BradCowell as a girl who works the street, she doesn't belong with us either she belongs in the trash

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

The time has come to hang up the lingerie and leave sex work, hopefully forever. It has been both a blessing and a curse, but as I start a job next year, have surgery & continue to sort out mental health, then it will continue to be a detriment.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Whilst the topic of Julie Burchill is relevant right now, I'd like everyone to read this quote:

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

People bang on about exit programmes for sex workers, but do you know how hard it is to get a job when you're known for being a prostitute, have huge gaps in your CV and a criminal record?

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

First night in my new home. Here's to many more!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

sex workers don't sell their body, they sell a service

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

I have decided to completely quit sex work. I am hanging up the lingerie and leaving. I will continue my work in my civvie job with regards to homeless and street based sex workers.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I hate talking about things I've done, but I'm really proud that the student sex worker safety guidance, information and self-care I wrote after my own poor experiences at University has remained word for word, and become a part of a national toolkit and resource. (THREAD)

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

FIRING PEOPLE FOR SEX WORK ONLY MAKES THEM SEX WORK MORE

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

If you befriend a sex worker and they dont disclose their legal name, then just leave it at that. Knowing their name isn't important.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Saw a job at a place I want to work for at 18k full time hours. That's £346 per week pre-tax. Why would I ever leave sex work when I can make that in a few hours? Sex work isn't the issue, poor paid employment is.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I done it. I paid off all my outstanding council tax, rent and any other arrears. I am skint but Christmas is paid for and I'm entering 2021 without the heavy weight on my chest. Merry Christmas x

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

just applied to be a trustee at a rape crisis centre, and very openly said I was a sex worker, and that we are often excluded... wish me luck!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Please stop telling sex workers to get a different job

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Saying 18 year olds shouldn't have an onlyfans doesn't stop it from happening. It does however, stop them coming forward to ask for support because they fear being judged or told they're too young.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

It angers me how people are being exclusionary of sex workers when it was the murder of several street based sex workers that sparked Reclaim the Night to begin with.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I was emailed today to say they were so impressed with my volunteer interview, they want me to apply for the short term, paid job.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Many of you have helped me out, but I would like to help out other street sex workers! I am fundraising for a new van for @BasisSexWork as it is on its last legs. Outreach is the primary way street sex workers engage with services & can seek support

Basis Outreach Van, organized by Grace S

The Basis outreach van has been there for many street sex workers who want a chat, a hot chocolate, a pack … Grace S needs your support for Basis Outreach Van

www.gofundme.com

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Can we not blame sex workers for male violence, please?

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

a polite reminder that sex workers also need protection from violent men, rapists and abusers. can we stop suggesting these men need sex workers to quell their violence for the greater good of society.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Despite the backlash and death threats, we power on! We are so close to £15,000 and I'm so blown away by the donations and support for the fundraiser. We can realistically get a new van & renovate it now. We could maybe even get toilet facilities!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Okay so today I spoke infront of a massive crowd to talk about sex work at the Sarah Everard vigil in Leeds.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

I've only gone and passed my fucking driving test!!!!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

My favourite twitter exchange ever

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

blaming sex workers for violence against all women is victim blaming

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

I have a lot of empathy for people who are addicted to alcohol because drinking culture is mainstream. I never had to walk into a supermarket and be confronted with aisles of heroin.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Nobody cares what Karl Marx had to say about prostitution

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Although today is #InternationalWhoresDay its also the 1 year anniversary of when I sat with my support worker in the garden and cried after I signing the keys for my flat, and was no longer homeless. I had nothing when I moved in but with help, I've turned it into my home.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Before & after Spent all day doing this

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I went to University to get away from home. I dragged myself through the course and felt like poverty porn by students and staff. I became a heroin user and street sex worker in my final year of University. I then appealed my grade, and now I graduate with a 2.1!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Removing, criminalising or banning ways sex workers work does not get rid of us, or sex work.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

abolitionists be calling my clients pimps and rapists, then thanking the surgeon who saved their Mum's life without realising they're the same person 🙃

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

sex work is work means that we deserve working rights, the ability to unionise, hold our bosses to account, and to seek justice without being criminalised whether you think it is "work" in the traditional sense is irrelevant, and I'd even agree it isn't like other jobs

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I've been vaccinated!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Peeing after sex should be taught in sex education

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

when your client is really old but you need that money

Whores of Yore

@WhoresofYore

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Captions please. X

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

@bindelj @WstonesHelp @Waterstones @Docstockk Julie, you wrote a whole book section about trafficking of women and your receipts/evidence was ringing up brothels and asking if non-british women worked there. Investigations really isn't your strong suit.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I reached peak whore last night and turned a friend into a client

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@graceyswer

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I did it!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

I had a virgin client once, and when I got on top the lad started uncontrollably shaking. I got off immediately because it felt uncomfortable to continue & as though he had no control. It's really that easy to... not have sex with someone, and to stop when you've started.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

I made it through to interview!

graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

just applied to be a trustee at a rape crisis centre, and very openly said I was a sex worker, and that we are often excluded... wish me luck!

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

If I give money to a homeless person and they buy drugs with it, that's none of my business. If that's what they needed at the time, then I'm glad it helped them.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

The fundraiser is almost at £36,000 and will be closing tomorrow afternoon. I am so touched by all your support and here is my final video. Thank you all 💞

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

In person sex work can be low cost. I wore the same lingerie from primark in rotation for 8 months, painted my nails myself & didnt buy expensive makeup. Don't believe the hype that you need $ to be a sex worker. Sex work roots from survival, not luxury investment.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

If homeless people buy drugs with the money I gave them, then that's none of my business

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

8 months

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Today we remember all those we have lost to murder, suicide, migration, criminalisation, imprisonment, racism and by other forms of violence. Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

If a client is intent on doing you harm, then no amount of screening will prevent that. I see a lot of victim blaming when sex workers are assaulted, and told to screen better. We have to remember, the job is dangerous and screening is harm reduction, not harm elimination.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

The people who tell sex workers to get another job are the same people who would not hire a homeless or drug using sex worker, but then expect us to somehow retrain into a new job, get back into education or starve to death. THREAD.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

One of the most dangerous things about sex work is the fact that the law makes us work alone, otherwise we are at risk of serious charges. The Nordic Model only increases this risk & continues to charge us for brothel-keeping if working with a friend, at home, for safety.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Its easier to say prostitution is violence against women and girls because it detracts from the fact that poverty, the driving force, is also violence against women and girls

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

- stopped drugs - stopped street sex work - moved out of the hostel - started a blog - got a 'vanilla' job in sex work charity - bought a washing machine - bought a double bed - start counselling - read psychoeducation books - got wifi and tv

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Ok so I keep it together can anyone tell me like one good thing that has happened to them in 2020

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@graceyswer

4 years

I can't believe I outed myself nationally to co-author a student sex work toolkit filled with safety information, harm reduction and support, just told to be told that I am in fact, damaging women. I did this to avoid other sex workers being hurt like I was.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Actually so fed up of people saying that decrim of sex work is a Western thing, as if sex workers around the globe are not organising in India, Nigeria, Thailand, Brazil etc

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

In the words of Juno Mac: "People get really hung up on the question 'well, would you want your daughter doing it?'. That's the wrong question. Instead, imagine she is doing it. How safe is she at work tonight?"

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

The reality is, we have a lot in common - the fight of autonomy over our bodies. It is unfair that I get given hormones and surgery quicker and without barriers, simply because I was 'genetically' female. I also felt out of place in my own body - it didn't match my mind & gender.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Just read that sex workers should be given to incels to prevent them turning into violent misogynists, and I have to say that's a hard fucking NO

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

2 years

The Depp vs Heard court case is a brilliant example of why in the UK, cameras are never allowed in the courtroom, under any circumstances. No photos, videos and absolutely would never be live broadcasted.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

A thread of disgusting things radical feminists have said about sex workers

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@graceyswer

3 years

We should be more understanding of diverse bodies, and teach them that it is natural, normal and okay - this includes not hiding from stigmatising labels. It would have saved a lot of bullying, self-esteem problems and lack of understanding.

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@graceyswer

2 years

Sex workers who charge other/new sex workers for safety information, access to harm reduction and screening guides are 🚩🚩🚩.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

I cant imagine I co-authored a sex worker safety toolkit and people are *checks notes* angry that sex workers can have information to be safe and supported to avoid assault? Its like they want you to face violence

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@graceyswer

3 years

Birthday vibes. Thanks everyone xx

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@graceyswer

4 years

sex worker rights are human rights

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

Merry Christmas to all 13,100 of you schlags

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@graceyswer

3 years

Although I identify as female, and have never felt more feminine, I know am intersex. Today, I still live with hair, a deep voice, ripping from surgical scars & long-term health complications, but I accept it. I'm still self-conscious about things, but it's work in progress!

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@graceyswer

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Reducing poverty will do more to stop sex work than any form of criminalisation

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

3 years

Today is International Sex Worker Rights Day. Around the world, sex workers navigate their way through various forms of criminalisation, all of which harm their safety. We are refused access to services, and are heavily discriminated against. [Thread]

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@graceyswer

3 years

Sex workers can't win. We either like our jobs and get accused of erasing abuse & exploitation. If we openly dislike our jobs and clients, then it's used against us to justify abolition or suggest that we're traumatised.

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graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

You know what, I aint even one to blow my own trumpet as I have very little self confidence as it is. But I've managed to do more in 3 weeks to help street sex workers locally than any radical feminist group has managed in their years of existence.

graceyswer 🇵🇸

@graceyswer

4 years

It's also been a lovely fuck you to @saveoureyes @LeedsSpinners @LeedsReSisters & other rad fem groups who constantly bombard sex workers, harass & report us, degrade and belittle us, call us slaves, speak over us & make our lives harder. They also tried defunding our services

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@graceyswer

3 years

It's my 24th birthday! Last year, I was in a hostel and people bought me home goods, despite not actually knowing when I would be housed. This year, I'm saving up for driving lessons and then eventually a car, hopefully!

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@graceyswer

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@geetownnnnnnn This is disgusting. We are not rape sponges for the "good women" of society. Rapists should steer clear of all & esp sex workers due to stigma and criminalisation. Absolutely vile attitudes.

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@graceyswer

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Most intersex children have surgery before the age of 2, and their parents are told not to tell their children so they grow up 'as normal'. However, it leads to confusion, unexplained pain and difficulties with sex; hugely knocking our confidence.

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@graceyswer

4 years

We should always remember that the police did not give a shit about the murders of sex workers, until Peter Sutcliffe murdered a non sex worker and considered her an 'innocent victim'. Only then did they investigate.

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@graceyswer

4 years

If anyone wants to help street sex workers out this winter, please consider buying thick tights, leggings, scarves, gloves etc. and donating them to sex work orgs. It is very cold working at night, in winter. I used to wear tights under my leggings for warmth. Makes a difference!

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@graceyswer

3 years

I start my job tomorrow, and this is the first full-time 'adult' job I've ever had.

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@graceyswer

3 years

Not a fan of those who sell safety guidance in sex work. That shit should be free info for all, and especially for those entering the industry who likely have the least money.

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