The concept of purity is banned you may choose between
+ sterility
+ contamination with organic matter
+ contamination with inorganic matter
+ shutting the fuck up and examining why you can’t frame anything that isn’t mired in the mentality of an extremely narrow form of Christian dogma even when you’re taking about like… food.
I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical.
The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.
As someone who was forced into sex work because of extreme economic
circumstance (aka poverty), I would probably be considered one of those
who “wanted out”
But using me as a statistic to silence sex workers who love their jobs and continue working by choice DID NOT HELP ME
Four
years ago, I begged my day-job boss to give me more hours. BEGGED.
Said if something didn’t change soon I would have to become a sex worker
in order to feed my family. Nobody helped me. I didn’t qualify for
any government assistance programs. Minimum wage was $8/hr at the time,
and it was not even close to being enough to survive. I had no other
options. Sex work was my ultimate last resort.
Because
of websites like Backpage, I didn’t have to work on the street, where
conditions are a thousand times more dangerous. Redbook allowed me to
screen clients by looking at their review history. But in the back of
my mind there was always an incredible amount of fear. Fear of law enforcement trumped my fear of bad clients. An arrest would have destroyed my entire family.
Because I was terrified of the police, I took many clients that I
should not have, and in doing so subjected myself to abuse in several
cases.
The notion that sex workers should just “get another job” because of tightened prostitution laws is unfair and unrealistic. Many of those you claim to support because they “want out” are already doing sex work as a last resort. There is no other job. This is it. Taking
away the few safety precautions they have is pulling the rug out from
under them and making their job that much more dangerous. Again, for many of us, sex work was our only option.
You
will never eradicate the sex industry, and these moral crusades to “end
demand” do nothing but harm those you claim to care about.
If
you really want to help people exit the industry, advocate for a living
wage. Advocate for better addiction services that help rather than
punish addicts. Provide assistance to LGBT teens who were disowned from
their families and are now living on the streets. Stop the
school-to-prison pipeline. The problem is a societal one that cannot be fixed with anti-prostitution laws.
also like… making sex work a crime, aka giving sex workers (and sex trafficking victims) a criminal record… is literally the opposite of helping ppl leave the industry bc guess what, other jobs can and do refuse to hire people with a record of being a swer!! you know what job is most attainable for an experienced sex worker with a criminal record? sex work.
“In the eyes of the law, I’m both a criminal and a victim – and the
impact of being arrested as a prostitute because I was trafficked left
deep emotional scars. But the consequences of my arrest goes beyond the
anxiety and hurt feelings: it impaired (and continues to impair) my
ability to find a job, to obtain housing and government benefits and,
really, to improve my life.”
If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org have unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-eighties into the mid-nineties. According to their notes, the collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August of 2009. Due to the size and obscurity, the collection hasn’t been properly notated but is said to include cassettes ranging from “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials”. Head to Archive now to download the free collection.
I know that some of you will lose your minds over this.
THIS IS SO COOL. Like I knew that it was a thing, I just didn’t realize it was such a UNIQUE THING.
we actually have more than one, depending on the variety of english you speak! they mostly tend to be profanity for example, in australian and british english, another infix is “bloody” abso-bloody-lutely, mate
also, in hip hop slang, we have “iz” or “izn” like, shiznit for shit and “ma”, “whose location in the gives a word an ironic pseudo-sophistication, as insophistimacated, saxomaphone, and edumacation”
At first, Jennifer Herkes didn’t realize what had been found — she thought it was a piece of an atlatl dart.
“I thought, ‘Oh yeah, that’s neat,’” she recalled.
Then she saw it wasn’t just a piece — it was the whole spear.
“My heart rate started increasing, and I got goose bumps all over. I’d never seen anything like that before, it was amazing,” said Herkes, who is the heritage manager for the Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon.
“The feathers, the sinew, the sap they would have used as, like, a glue to attach the stone point to the wood shaft — all of it is completely intact.“
Herkes believes it’s the first full atatl spear ever found in Yukon. It’s believed to be at least 1,000 years old. Read more.
Holy bonkers.
If you’ve never seen them, the term atlatl dart may be misleading. It’s a giant arrow, five feet long and at least an inch thick. The atlatl itself is essentially a stick that you use to extend your reach and thus increase the speed you can throw stuff, and you just use it to launch this bigass spear. Hunters all over the world used them for thousands of years to kill large and dangerous animals.
Today, historians and hunters are rediscovering this nifty weapon, and many indigenous peoples are studying it and using it to reconnect with their past.
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