Policing prostitution isn’t protection — it’s patriarchy. – Kaytlin Bailey
A federal appeals court has blocked…a judge’s order forcing Miami-Dade County to give masks, soap and cleaning supplies to [human beings locked in filthy, disease-infested cages by the state]…even though it acknowledges that social distancing is “impossible” [because the state has crammed so many people into its filthy dungeon]…the…ruling…allows litigation…to continue…163 [prisoners]…have tested positive for COVID-19…in the cramped [cages so far]…
Guest Columnist: Kaytlin Bailey
An interview with Kaytlin on her Whore’s Eye View show:
…I’ve always been interested in sex work, history, and naturally, sex workers in history…Studying history feels like a way of preparing for the future, but it also feels like a way of contextualizing and trying to understand the current moment. When Maya Angelou — another old pro — told us to “know your history,” I believe she meant it as both a way to affirm your identity and also as a way to recognize our enemies. Studying things that have already happened is a way to familiarize ourselves with tactics that may be used again. Those are the themes I’m most interested in exploring with The Oldest Profession…I’m worried for sex workers, but I’m also worried for organizers, journalists, comics, increasingly criminalized abortion providers, and all the people who connect online over kooky or kinky interests they wouldn’t want their employers or anyone in government to know about. I’m worried about going back to a time when medically accurate information about contraception was legally obscene and criminalized. I’m worried about returning to a time when suspect women could be rounded up and checked for venereal disease in the name of national security. I’m worried about bad actors using anti trafficking rhetoric to justify a police state that is just out of control…
Judges are finally starting to dismantle this vile practice:
An Indiana man whose brand new Land Rover was [stolen by cops when]…he was arrested for dealing heroin in 2013 may get his vehicle back following seven years of legal wrangling, including a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court…Judge Jeffrey Todd…ordered [bureaucrats] to return Tyson Timbs’ 2013 Land Rover LR2 after Todd concluded the forfeiture of the $41,558 vehicle was grossly disproportionate to the underlying crime, whose maximum possible fine was $10,000…Timbs pleaded guilty to one count of dealing in a controlled substance after he sold a total of 4 grams of heroin for $385 to [pigs role-playing as normal people consenting to the transaction]…
This is about SAFETY, not expanding the police state, no sirree!
A [pig]…violent[ly]…arrest[ed a man] in Manhattan…[resulting in the victim being hospitalized with severe injuries. The video aggravated the]…frustration and anger [citizens feel over the arbitrary and heavy-handed way cops are “enforcing”]…social distancing [diktats]…tensions are especially high in New York City, which accounts for roughly half of the more than 321,000 confirmed cases and over 25,000 deaths statewide. In the ninth week of the shutdown, New York City officials have repeatedly said there’s no template, let alone hard-and-fast rules, for how police should enforce social distancing orders[, giving the NYPD carte blanche to use its usual violent, racist tactics]…[L]ast weekend…[cops] handed out masks in parks largely packed with white residents but aggressively [brutalized people in]…minority communities…[Costumed thug] Francisco Garcia…[menaced] Donni Wright [with a stun gun and screamed obscenities at him] before forcing him to the ground, [beating] him and kneeling on his neck…
Internet companies use sex workers to build themselves, then screw us over:
…as with most online platforms, adult and otherwise, the reality of OnlyFans’ success has always been a result of sex workers’ efforts. Up until recently, its referral program rewarded users for bringing in new creators throughout the lifetime of the referees’ account. OnlyFans paid referrers a commission equal to five percent of the new creator’s revenue…out of OnlyFans’ end, meaning the commission didn’t cut into the new creator’s profits…[But] in an email sent to creators last week, OnlyFans announced that starting May 1, referral payouts would be limited to one year after the referee joins, instead of throughout the lifetime of the account. This, many creators say, is a serious blow to their income…
It doesn’t surprise me that politicians are starting to turn against one another:
Two county sheriffs in Arizona say they will not be enforcing Gov. Doug Ducey’s…stay-at-home [diktat]…Mohave County Sheriff Doug Schuster and Pinal County Mark Lamb have both said they will not arrest or hand out fines to those…trying to make a living…after Ducey said…that…if they [try to pay their bills or feed their families]…we will [lock them in filthy cages so they are more likely to get a disease]”…