マット・マクゴリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (マット・マクゴリーInstagram)「"Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights" by Juno Mac & Molly Smith # I have a deep appreciation for this book and it touched on all of the areas that I hoped it would plus more. Too often, sex workers are left out of conversations about their own lives, rights, and the laws that affect them. The result is disastrous for sex workers and it only further marginalizes one of the most marginalized populations. Too often, our culture's way of 'caring for' sex workers is actually antithetical to their safety and well-being, in large part because we are making decisions without centering those that have the lived experience. Only when we are able to listen to those that are most directly impacted, will we ever achieve a world of true liberation. # As with any undocumented workers, harsher border policies make the workers more easily exploited by their industry/employers (it's very hard to stick up for your rights or unionize when you can be easily deported). The book also does a good job of making sure to include how various practices affect the lives of prostitutes of color, those who are trans, chemically dependent as well as unhoused prostitutes. Our politics really aren't worth shit if they're not including how to achieve liberation for the most oppressed. # "It is not the task of sex workers to apologise for what prostitution is. Sex workers should not have to defend the sex industry to argue that we deserve the ability to earn a living without punishment. People should not have to demonstrate that their work has intrinsic value to society to deserve safety at work. Moving towards a better society- one in which more people's work does have wider value, one in which resources are shared on the basis on need- cannot come about through criminalization. Nor can it come about through treating marginalized people's material needs and survival strategies as trivial. Sex workers ask to be credited with the capacity to struggle with work- even to hate it- and still be considered workers. You don't have to like your job to want to keep it." #RevoltingProstitutes #JunoMac #MollySmith # My Booklist: bit.ly/mcgreads (link in bio) #McGReads」4月24日 3時10分