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Raani Begum

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Speaking into existence. Queer. Full Service Sex Worker or "Pr*stitute". Desi 🇵🇰🇲🇲 Disabled. Mad. Organizer. Anarchist. Writing somewhere.

Brotherly Love, USA

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Raani Begum

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Learning opportunity: HIV continues to be criminalized because queerness remains criminalized. Masks (and not COVID) are becoming criminalized because disability itself is criminalized. Ahistorical analysis hurts us all and conceeds to institutions weaponizing libertory language.

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Raani Begum

2 years

In 2013 a school teacher, Rafiq Rehman, and two children, Zubair Rehman (13 yr old) and Nabila Rehman (9 yr old), traveled from Pakistan to testify to a Democratic Congress about the brutality of drone bombings. The translator sobbed. The no-show numbers were historical.

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Happy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.

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On this May Day, a reminder that housework, sex work, child care, and all other feminized and invisible work is LABOR. Happy Workers Day.

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2 years

Someone I love has major blisters and went to ER. Got quarantined for #monkeypox . The health department (Philly's I believe) is refusing to test because this person isn't sexually active. What the ever loving fuck? How can I get more advocacy for her?

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4 years

I just learned that the original bisexual who went "pew pew!" was Josephine Baker and that's my joy for today

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2 years

It is extremely funny to me how sex worker and drug user histories get romanticized. "Most ancient cultures didn’t grow marijuana to get high, but as herbal medicine." "Courtesans in ancient history were revered in political and religious spaces." Bro, I have news for you...

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I want to be extremely clear that the mass mobilization happening both virtually and IRL isn't simply because folks are witnessing a genocide in 4K. It's because Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews have been organizing. Do not underestimate the ongoing grassroots work of years.

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2 years

Fun story about the capture of Osama bin Laden. Obama authorized CIA to infiltrate healthcare networks, taking DNA samples of people being vaccinated for things like Hep B. Now it's near impossible to have healthcare campaigns in rural Pakistan.

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2 years

Happy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.

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2 years

Just so I'm clear: the doctors are doing everything to advocate. It's the department of public health that's a barrier here. If we don't have enough tests, we'd just love some transparency. @PHLPublicHealth being cold and dismissive isn't actually helpful here!

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Raani Begum

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I need sex workers + harm reductionists to please please keep an eye on what's happening in Philly. They're really sending the army after unhoused drug users and sex workers. I'm really terrified of what this mayor will do. This is where I said diversion will end and here we are

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2 years

@CouncilmemberJG this patient is your constituent and needs to be tested + treated appropriately, please help! @PHLPublicHealth @CDCgov It's really not cool to treat a public health outbreak this carelessly. What the hell!!!

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Raani Begum

2 years

Throughout human history we have gotten high and we have fucked for resources and money. It is what it is. We don't need to romanticize this shit to give ourselves legitimacy. Also, a lot of practices said to be "ancient" still exist today. Which makes this even more funny to me.

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2 years

The person I love works with our unhoused population. The person I love is able to advocate for themselves and have insurance thankfully. How are you treating people who are coming in with less? How are you sending someone back to an at risk community @PHLPublicHealth

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Raani Begum

2 years

Oh also just to be clear: Obama single handedly expanded the drone bombing program. Drone bombings were authorized across Pakistan -Afghanistan, in Yemen and Kuwait (amongst other Middle East countries), Somalia and Libya (among other African countries).

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Andrew Weinstein

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Happy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.

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3 years

What being a sex working organizer has taught me is that people at large, and I mean, PEOPLE AT LARGE, don't care about the various labor violation and gendered violence young people experience at work UNLESS IT'S ABOUT SEX ON A PORN SITE

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Raani Begum

3 years

Wow. Funny you ask. Have you ever talked to sex workers?

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NPR

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One officer used car inspections to hit on women. Another used police resources to run checks on women he was pursuing sexually. But after they were quietly fired, no criminal investigation followed. Why hasn't #MeToo reached policing?

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3 years

Not so gentle reminder that more often than not SWers are transient between the erotic industry and industries such as child care, domestic work, hospitality, and a lot of other feminzed "blue collar" industries You're not suggesting anything radical or new

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3 years

How about quitting sex work. And start a group of affordable daycares. Sex work is dangerous. Mentally and physically

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2 years

While my loved one went to ER in the morning, @PHLPublicHealth waited until after 4pm to ask the hospital for a bacterial test. When I got into contact with health dept, they said if bacterial test comes negative then they'll test for monkeypox. I have questions:

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2 years

1) why can't tests be administering together? Accordingly to dept: bcs the state lab that does this testing isn't open until the morning. So why wait until EOD to administer bacteria?! Idk but I'm frustrated and I expressed it!

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2 years

One of the best things sex work taught me is that the customer is, in fact, often wrong. I don't think workers in other industries fully embrace that as much as SWers do.

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Raani Begum

5 months

Your husband is right and the violent use of psychiatry to introduce risk to your household reinforces his point about American individualism. I hope he divorces you.

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2 years

Would love a public health answer on this but: 2) wouldn't all pus field leisons have bacteria? Shouldn't monkeypox leisons also have bacteria? I honestly do not understand what they're trying to eliminate to get to monkeypox testing?! Someone explain

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Raani Begum

2 years

So @Cloudflare ran off s3x w0rkers but refuse to run off fascists? Should be enough to get more of you to understand it may be anti - fascist to side with s3x w0rkers. But hey. What do I know

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Raani Begum

4 years

Please be kind to your local sex working organizers. Especially those that are organizing relief funds. The demand is huge, we're working unpaid and many members are starting to struggle, and the pressure is truly unreal

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Raani Begum

2 years

If any of this moves you, please consider donating to the ongoing relief in response to the ongoing #ClimateCrisis that is the Balochistan floods. Please do a Twitter search for it.Pakistan's weakened infrastructure is thanks to Amerikkka's imperialism.

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2 years

Hello folks! Sharing the GoFundMe link for people who live abroad and would like to help us buy tents and ration for Jafarabad, Balochistan. Please share this with friends who would like to donate!

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2 years

My loved one is being discharged. They're running tests (incl one for monkeypox as per infectious disease Dr.) and we'll have more information in the following days. They're giving her for some antibiotics etc. I'll update this thread if there's more relevant updates.

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3 years

Decriminalize drug possession and drug use. Decriminalize s*x work. It saves lives.

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2 years

Recessions bring out the worst in SW. Some things I have learned: 1) it's not you, it's the recession. 2) it's not the other girls, it's the recession.

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2 years

I'm telling you this as a full service sex worker: anti-SW rhetoric is tied with anti-queer, anti-abortion, and anti-survivor rhetoric. It is anti-children though framed as "care for children". All of this is racist, classiest, abelist. All of our liberation is tied together.

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2 years

Colombian governor is seriously considering decrim/regulating cocaine and if leftist govt in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia are able to push through, it'll be over for U.S in a way like nothing else. I'm SOO happy and hopeful!

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3 years

(your local sex workers organizing around sex work are also interrupting violence)

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Raani Begum

4 years

Gonna use "Caroline" everytime I want to talk about a white woman trying to be sex worker adjacent and using it to earn $ and popularity pass it on

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2 years

Everyone wants to hear from a survival SWer until that survival SWer says they don't have a problem with their actual job. Then they're somehow privileged if they're not complaining all the time. Disinformation is what this is.

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Raani Begum

5 years

Kamala Harris, like many other SWERFs, used the tactic of packaging the Nordic Model but labelling it as "decriminalization" because that's the current buzz word every one and their granny is looking for. It's been happening a LOT recently if you keep up w/ rhetoric of SWERFs

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Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com

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PPS I’m actually kind of frustrated that The Root went with “Harris supports decrim” as the headline and didn’t really break things out in the body of the post because it is *not* that straightforward (and I completely understand why some are leery about the praise she’s getting)

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Raani Begum

4 years

Good evening, your local harm reductionist telling you to please stop saying "voting for the lesser evil is harm reduction". Both Biden and Harris build their careers imprisoning folks using drugs and selling s e x. I assure you that is the actual opposite of harm reduction.

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3 years

People trading sex and using and dealing drugs are not the source of violence in your community. When you talk about supporting Black and brown sex workers, you have to understand this with clarity and precision

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3 years

"Exit services" look like affordable housing, a living wage, competent medical services, a right to unemployment because you quit to escape sexual violence at your food/hospitality/whatever industry job

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Raani Begum

4 years

Sex Workers of Color: An amazing therapist is holding free - sliding scale online group therapy sessions. If you don't have IG I'm happy to forward you the email. IG: @thealttherapist Get the support you need 💪🏼

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2 years

I'm endlessly fascinated by the SWERFy idea that disappearing SWers disappear bad clients. As though my bad clients aren't your drs, your lawyers, your engineers... SWERFs really think bad clients are cartoon characters behind bushes. That alone should be enough to dismiss them.

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Raani Begum

2 years

Thank you

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Paula Carmichael

2 years

@raanibegum Intact monkeypox lesions will not have bacteria in them. Yellow/ white fluid in pustules is full of white blood cells. If there is a bacterial infection bacteria will be seen or will grow from the fluid.

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Raani Begum

2 years

Well, this is taking off unexpectedly. I work with @safephila @PhillyRUA and @HeauxHistory so go support all the wonderful work happening there as well.

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Raani Begum

5 years

But DARLING, don't YOU TOO, make money off of "prostituted women" just like the pimps etc? If we didn't exist, your ENTIRE PLATFORM wouldn't exist. And you couldn't make money off of us by having fake speeches and selling books. Making our lives miserable makes YOU money 🙃🙃🙃

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Raani Begum

4 years

None of y'all actually understand full service sex work for what it is

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Raani Begum

2 years

Thanks for everyone's support.

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5 years

I want it to be known that it was Black sex workers who introduced the "cashapp me for my knowledge" idea. I see every other civillian now doing this and I want the historic roots of this to be recorded tbh.

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Raani Begum

2 months

Happy Intl Wh0res Day, a day to commemorate militant resistant of wh0res fighting institutional violence. A reminder that majority of sex w0rkers reliably report being disabled and for the majority of us, our job puts us at risk of contracting a disabling and deadly virus.

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Raani Begum

2 months

Happy Pride! Queers at stonewall fought police with their heels and stones and now, in their memory, you're spreading an airborne disease which overwhelmingly takes trans and queer lives. Oh and yes the death count is racialized too. But woo! Rainbows and rainbow cops!!!!

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3 years

Not a single one of you examine how much gendered violence ALL young people experience at "legitimate" businesses because you DON'T actually care about them. And this is how I know you're the morality police you fuck shits

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3 months

@KoffieKakeKi Advocates were there. It's was inhumane..

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Raani Begum

5 years

This morning: thinking about how I became a sex worker because the medical needs of my loved ones is so high a civillian job is impossible for me

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Raani Begum

2 years

The reason why so many SWers find the industry unhealthy is BECAUSE we are working under criminalized conditions on top of the regular degular oppresions many of us face. It breaks down your psyche which then allows bullshit from clients to seep in further. It is a vicious cycle.

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Raani Begum

5 years

Sex work "activism" is an exhausting shit show because if you're too vocal, you alienate your clients AND give fodder to the SWERFs. On the other hand, it is also neatly packaged and sanitized to be palatable to middle class sensibilities which also REALLY hurts marginalized ppl

@mykola

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Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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5 years

Happy May Day to all the sex workers who fight for our right to work, fight for our right to survive. Especially in hostile leftist spaces where it's incomprehensible that erotic labor is LABOR #MayDay #sexworkiswork #workersrights

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Raani Begum

4 years

I keep deleting tweets about this but -- every single big media publication is rushing to write articles about sex work recently. Guess sex sells so you gotta print sensationalizing sex workers is useful material to keep alive dying publications and precarious paychecks

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Raani Begum

1 year

I don't think non-SWers fully get it when I complain clients. I don't hate them because they're old or have weird sexual fantasies or w/e. I hate their relationship to their masculinity, to their wealth, to their whitness, to their class and caste, and what it makes of them.

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Raani Begum

4 years

There's a lot of on the ground organizers I know personally who aren't voting They've been organizers for a long time and will continue to be regardless of who's in office This idea that everyone on the ground who sees reality is voting blue no matter who is patently false

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1 year

I don't think this is talked enough about amongst SWers but it's a whole other level of terrifying when you feel like you've "failed" at sw, ESPECIALLY when it's FSSW.

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3 years

mInOrS aRe bEiNg vIoLaTeD hAvE yOu nO hEaRt? Yeah have you been to your local fast food place?

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2 years

@BernieDogs4 They're currently quarantined at an ER and being tested for. . . .HIV 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Raani Begum

4 years

Never forget that the "modern day" ~gay movement progressed because they left behind trans rights and sex worker rights in the dust. We invoke people the people who threw the stones. Are we going to grapple with the fact that they got left behind?

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3 years

Being poor is the most expensive thing in the world.

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Raani Begum

2 years

Cheap advertising sites are disappearing. Social media + banking is banning SWers outright. I'm doing more work for the same pay. This has nothing to do w/ bad clients. Idc if SW exists after the revolution or not (it will). I'm dragging SWERFs to the guillotine when it comes.

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@raanibegum

Raani Begum

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👋🏽 Welcome to this space! I'm Raani. South Asian. Full service SWer. I read, I build community, I write. My focus is the intersection of street economies, culture, labor, anti-police work, harm reduction all from a gendered perspective. It's a very fancy way of saying I look...

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Raani Begum

2 years

Happy International whores day. Happy pride month. I know more trans and queer SWers this year than ever who are either getting evicted or already homeless. If you see someone's payment apps please don't ignore them if you can.

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Raani Begum

3 years

FSSW get paid for their time. Therefore I'll ask every journalist who approaches me if they're attaching compensation. Your piece would be nothing without your expert subject. And experts get paid. As you try to re-haul journalism and what not, please interrogate this

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Raani Begum

2 years

My ask in 2022 of people making podcasts about SW is to intentionally seek out sex working ORGANIZERS to bring to the platform. Not all workers are politicized and platforming some of my colleagues is just. . ..cringey at best and actively harmful at worst.

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Raani Begum

2 years

It has become incredibly difficult to transition street based folks onto online spaces should they want it. Online ad sites are increasingly asking for ID - a HUGE barrier to folks living and working outside. It puts people at increased risk of violence, surveillance, and poverty

@SwopLosAngeles

SWOP Los Angeles

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Today marks four years since FOSTA/SESTA was signed into law despite the warnings of sex workers and human rights advocates. How has FOSTA/SESTA & the seizure of Backpage affected you?

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2 years

Extremely weird, as a sex worker, to watch people try to talk about abortion in code for plausible deniability. Spoiler: it doesn't work.

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Raani Begum

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I'm a full service sex worker building a polyamarous pod with a family and we have kept each other safe for over a year. Your preference for monogamy and the ick w/ sex isn't actually covid mitigation. These kinds of framings are frankly christo-facist and invite violence!

@lyluancake

🐼 Lý 🌷 “Lifestyle Policer” ASM(a)Rxist 🎂

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my reasoning behind it was a future spouse could be kissing multiple people before they agree to be in a monogamous relationship which would increase the covid risk?? So monogamy would decrease it idk Honestly its just a personal preference. Sex isn't that important to me

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4 years

Hey sex workers? Please apply for pandemic unemployment. There's two weeks left. I'm seeing both workers and civs with fucked up to no tax history able to qualify Financial safety during these times is ESPECIALLY important. Please apply!

@LysistrataMCCF

Lysistrata Co-op

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SWs, did you know you can file for Pandemic Unemployment as a self employed/gig worker!? This option isn't perfect, wait times are long, there are extra fees if you have to use the prepaid debit card, it seems like states are making things up as they go,

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I want people to know that as a SWer very openly mitigating against COVID, rich people are deeply aware of $$ mitigation practices and don't care if you die. They think they're invincible and they don't care about your well being. Attitude trickles down but mitigations don't.

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Raani Begum

4 years

Most SWers I know identify as disabled. This includes neurodivergency, mad folks. There are SWers who rely on stigmatized drugs to survive which directly intersects w/ their disabilities and how that cocktail drives them underground bcs of capitalism

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Enter the DEI (36 Chambers of Woke)

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Sex and SW isn't just for conventionally attractive people bathed in a porcelain veneer or those with "normal" bodies.

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The state cannot help trafficking victims because the state, by it's own definition, is the largest trafficker on the globe. Traffickers cannot help trafficking victims. I'm not being figurative. Thread 🧵

@proseggsworker

Professional marriage breaker

@proseggsworker

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How do you reply to this question that I keep seeing on the media: “How do you differentiate from who is being trafficked to who isn’t? How can the state help the victims of trafficking then?”

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All offense but if just seeing carnage united people we would be living in a very different world today. Grateful for the grassroots that has happened and is continuing. May we see Empires fall. May we see the oppressed liberated. Insha' Allah.

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1 year

@DisabilityStor1 We bought the milk from our neighbor and same! I don't understand the raw milk craze

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4 years

I have a hard time with visibility. Especially as a sex working organizer of color. People need to understand the burden of stigma and violence they're asking us to carry when they're asking visibility from stigmatized + marginalized folks

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A SWer eternal crisis: is it generally dead or is my marketing shit?

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4 years

There are always four parts to a protest: the protest itself, care and respite (+ childcare as needed for protestors), jail support, bail + court support

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Raani Begum

2 years

People, ESPECIALLY rich people, know they can hire s*x workers. For various services. They specifically harass and proposition non-SWing people because harassment, abuse, and assault is about leveraging power. Nothing else.

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Raani Begum

2 years

It is 7°F outside right now. Philadelphia's Office of Homeless Services refused to fund warming buses and shelters this weekend. Unlike other shelters unhoused people can access, warming stations can create immediate access and use a harm reduction approach to cold.

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Raani Begum

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From what I understand Office of Homeless Services is refusing to roll out warming buses. I don't fucking know why. The real feel is -13 degrees F. Homeless Services is committing genocide! Relying on housed neighbors to call the code blue outreach number is a genocidal act!

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sex workers told y'all so

@mikestabile

Mike Stabile

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🚨Etsy just announced sweeping sitewide censorship and will begin banning almost anything remotely sexual — including toys, BDSM gear, t-shirts with provocative messages. Even "gluteal clefts" (buttcracks) need to be blurred. (via @annaroseiovine )

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S3x workers are some of the only gig economy workers who're very publicly forthright about how trash capitalism and gig economy is. But because worker's talk about it so openly, esp full service s*x workers, it's weaponized against us #MayDay #WorkersDay

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Raani Begum

5 years

Please RT for visibility I'm looking to interview SWers who were stopped at the U.S border and know it was because of their work. Espeically people who are holding green cards / are migrants / folks of color. This is for a piece I've been working on regarding surveillance.

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Raani Begum

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@SinnamonLove God this is exhausting. I feel utterly exhausted.

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Raani Begum

4 months

I'm also very curious because how many of you who use the term "harm reduction" in this context are ACTUAL harm reduction organizers on the ground rn? Because*hr organizing* *right now* requires a whole other level of militancy many of you are not prepared for.

@AudrianaCB

Audri 🍓🌗 ☭

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Like I said, some people won’t like this. But harm reduction is good, it’s a basic principle. Every time you wear a mask/isolate/don’t go to superspreaders you are breaking chains of transmission and that means less people get covid. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.

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Raani Begum

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My favorite thing to do, as a sex working organizer, is simply talk about the banality of work and life. Tips to keep from cramping when giving BJs. Neighborhood gossip. Exchanging cat photos. It builds trust. THE most valuable thing to have as an organizer.

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Raani Begum

6 months

We're still here, still claiming space, and still organizing SUCCESSFULLY. Have watched people come back to their spaces as we exist and do whatever. I want you to know that we're not done. This fight ain't over until it's over.

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Raani Begum

6 months

I need sex workers + harm reductionists to please please keep an eye on what's happening in Philly. They're really sending the army after unhoused drug users and sex workers. I'm really terrified of what this mayor will do. This is where I said diversion will end and here we are

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Raani Begum

1 year

I'm in a terrible space and using this account to vent. I'm tired of the myth of SW being a "high end paying gig" and this myth weaponized against us when my SWing friends are dying. It's nothing but a way to break SW organizing. I'm sick of it.

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Raani Begum

2 years

SWERFs and TERFs will never have principled debate because they barely have unexamined ideas of second wave feminism to stand on. They pepper it with "decolonial" and vaguely threaten death on organizers like myself and all of you bozos think they're radical.

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Raani Begum

2 years

I think it's really important to talk about full decriminalization of SW as a way to abolish police, not as a way to repair relations between SWers and police. I fight for decrim so I can be left alone, not because I want to suck an off duty cop's dick. The diff is important.

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Raani Begum

4 years

I'm planning on developing a series of classes on SW. I fully believe that full decriminalization cannot be achieved without the abolishment of policing and prison systems and SWers have a vested interest in this conversation. Hosting the first one tomorrow on @PhillyRUA IG

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Raani Begum

4 months

There are families whose mitigations are all over the place bcs it can be difficult with young children etc and then there are people who use "sometimes precautions" to spread incredibly dangerous COVID myths and pat themselves on the back while transmitting a deadly virus

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Audri 🍓🌗 ☭

4 months

I bring a real “any covid precautions you take are better than none even if you still participate in high risk activities” vibe that a lot of covid conscious twitter does not like

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Raani Begum

4 years

Some day I'd like to document how each country responded to SWers during the 2020 Pandemic

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Bangladesh sends food aid to brothels as women fight to survive lockdown

Brothel closures could leave up to 100,000 women unable to support families amid fears of Covid-19 outbreak

www.theguardian.com

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Raani Begum

6 months

Gonna have a controversial opinion but an OF boycott should be worker led, not consumer led. SWers deserve some space and a chance to figure out their next steps and it's not going to come within a week. Tell ppl you're subscribing to that you want to see them elsewhere tho.

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Raani Begum

3 years

The fact that people start assuming I'm talking about brothels or turning a neighborhood into a "red light district" as soon as I start talking about affordable housing is a giant housing rights issue intersecting with rights of SWers and drug users

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Raani Begum

1 year

Today in 2001, the Indian government tried to dismantle the efforts of sex working organizers in West Bengal to bring together sex workers from across Asia + Africa. Indian sex workers fought back! Happy International Sex Workers Rights Day! This interview is accessible for $1.

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Heaux History Project

3 years

Happy International Sex Worker Rights Day! This morn, @raanibegum had the pleasure of interviewing members of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, A SW union of 65000 members strong in India, who founded today in direct resistance to the State of India!

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Raani Begum

3 years

OF asked for my ID four times and would not verify my bank account (because it's a local bank) so I cannot make any money on there. But sure: "5 minutes and your grandma's ID"

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Raani Begum

2 years

Happy International Sex Worker Rights Day! Incredibly important that we keep an eye towards solidarity with our siblings in the third world and the global south while we fight for our own rights.

@HeauxHistory

Heaux History Project

3 years

Happy International Sex Worker Rights Day! This morn, @raanibegum had the pleasure of interviewing members of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, A SW union of 65000 members strong in India, who founded today in direct resistance to the State of India!

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Raani Begum

4 months

@aedison People specifically said they cannot tolerate frozen food due to chronic illness intolerances and so have to rely on the freshness that door dash can afford many. That you have to lie about this does show which "side of this “debate” has the seriousness and clarity here".

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Raani Begum

3 years

When you say "Whose streets? Our streets!", be clear as to who "we" are. Because our unhoused folks trading sex and drugs? They're our neighbors too. It's their streets too.

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Raani Begum

2 months

Happy Pride! Queers at stonewall fought police with their heels and stones and now, in their memory, you're spreading an airborne disease which overwhelmingly takes trans and queer lives. Oh and yes the death count is racialized too. But woo! Rainbows and rainbow cops!!!!

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