Ren Ev Scores Again (Or, How NOT To Be A Sex Worker Ally)

Revenge of the Sexbots, Sexy Sex Intellectuals, The Fighting 101'st Progressive Headbussa Brigade, The Sex Pox May 21st, 2008

For those of you who think that you are an ally of sex workers, here’s a reality checklist from Renegade Evolution that you might want to read up on. There will be a quiz later on on this.

Some of them aren’t big names. There are writers, bloggers, so on, out there who like to say or think they are allies, but they aren’t. Being an ally has some guidelines, after all. I mean, let us look at this logically and such:

-If you support anything that might endanger the health of a sex worker, you are not an ally.
-If you support anything which might affect the legal standing, legal rights, and legal recourses of a sex worker, you are not an ally.
-If you actively seek to silence the words of sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you advocate anything that impedes progress for sex workers rights, you are not an ally.
-If you support anything that keeps sex workers engaging in business in unsafe, criminalized, unregulated conditions, you are not an ally.
-If you infringe upon or disrupt a sex worker’s ability to earn a living, you are not an ally.
-If you patronize, mock, insult, judge, presume to speak for, speak over, lie about, threaten, slander, hack, make assumptions about, or belittle sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to alter your terminology to suit terms sex workers prefer, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize sex work extends beyond street prostitution, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize the humanity of sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize many sex works are adults with a level of autonomy, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize that many people in sex work would choose other options if they were available, you are not an ally.
-If you actually do nothing to help sex workers in the here and now, you are not an ally.
-If you take on a savior, superior attitude towards sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you use sex workers words, images, ideas, writings, or experiences without their consent or knowledge, you are not an ally.
-If you use sex workers to further your wider agenda or goal without their consent, you are not an ally.

Got it? Hey, you might pass the “you’re not a feminist if” tests, but if you fail here, you are no fucking ally to sex workers.

Excerpted from here.

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Feminist Carnival for Sexual Freedom and Autonomy @ Uncool: It’s About Damn Time!!

Fighting The Good Fight, Revenge of the Sexbots, The Feminist Sex Wars, The Sex Pox, The War on Sex/Sluts/Gays/Whatever April 5th, 2008

Remember when myself and the former Bitchlab/Quare Dewd (now Shag over at Wear Clean Draws) attempted to organize a sex-positive blog carnival??  Remember how it ultimately failed because both of us weren’t able to invest the time into it??

Well, Lina over at Uncool managed to do what we couldn’t…and the results are simply incredible to see.

Along with the usual gang of sex poxxies — including Amber Rhea, Iamcuriousblue, Belledame, the Bound, Not Gagged collective, and, of course, Renegade Evolution — the list of contributors include everyone from active and inactive sex workers to philosophers to deep thinkers to anyone with an interest in sex positivity and feminism joining forces.

And, yes, there’s even a contribution by a certain handsome Black male essayist, too.

Highlights include:

– Renegade Evolution’s instant classic Young, Dumb and Full of Cum

– Belledame’s two part series defining sex positive feminism

– BNG’s rolling coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and its aftereffects

– Audacia Ray on the lack of representation and misrepresentation of sex workers in the media

And those are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg….Lina has lined up a virtual smoregasboard of bloggers, writers and intellectuals from a variety of venues to come together (no pun, Clones) in service to defending sexual freedom as a feminist value.

Don’t take my word for it….just get your booty over there and check it for yourself.

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