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  • Sex work is one of the few ways that women have relatively easy access to upward mobility

  • and financial security.

  • And I think that's why it is so threatening to conservative values or the patriarchy,

  • because it inherently destabilizes them.

  • Women tend to do most of the emotional and sexual labor in our society, and I think it's

  • really devalued.

  • I think that's part of the reason why sex work is so demonized.

  • The police can't protect you if you're in a criminalized market.

  • It just doesn't work.

  • This industry, it's really racist.

  • It's really transphobic.

  • When they are walking around on the street.

  • Minding their own business.

  • The most that police will do for you is give you a fine, and if they're very generous

  • they'll just leave you alone.

  • And that's the best you can hope for.

  • We're not the animals who they think that we are.

  • We're not the sex worker on your street corner robbing your apartment.

  • We're just trying to f*cking survive.

  • Because your system does not help us.

  • We need to decriminalize.

  • Because everybody is equal.

  • Everybody should be treated equal.

  • The most dehumanizing thing is to be criminalized for your labor and trying to survive.

  • Perfect.

  • Sounds great.

  • And can't wait to see you.

  • This reminds me of when my parents used to send these really pretty dresses to me from

  • the US.

  • I grew up in Honduras, in kind of like a mountainous region.

  • I had to be smuggled over the border when I was 5.

  • Growing up, my parents influenced a lot of my sexuality and the way I look at my gender.

  • I was raised to show off my sexuality, but to not be a whore.

  • It was hard to fit into this

  • mold that my parents wanted me in because I loved sexuality and I was fascinated by

  • it, and I feel like the more they policed me, the more it kind of drove me towards it.

  • So for me sex work is powerful.

  • Nobody's been able to end sex work.

  • Nobody has really been able to deter people away from sex work.

  • So at what point do you sit down and say, "Hey we have an issue.

  • How are we going to address it?"

  • We want to make sure that they have the resources and are able to report violence against them.

  • And they're never going to be able to do that if we continue to stigmatize and criminalize

  • them.

  • The decrim- bill, what it does is change the penal code for only two of the three parties

  • traditionally involved in sex work.

  • There's the trafficker, or pimp,

  • that word I hate, the sex worker and the customer.

  • So we're trying to decriminalize the interaction between the worker and the customer, but leave

  • the penal code intact for the trafficker to make sure that they are still put behind bars

  • for exploiting people.

  • So you can't tell me that you're, for example, a pro-choice person who supports the rights

  • to abortion, right,

  • but don't support the right to do sex work when it's a person's autonomy, it's a person's

  • body.

  • How much I make in a year varies.

  • Last year it was $500,00, give or take.

  • You know, that was with me taking several months off, you know, going on vacation.

  • It's the type of work where if

  • you're really on top of it and approaching it as a job and as a career, I have a really

  • good retirement account.

  • I can probably retire younger.

  • It's been both emotionally and financially rewarding.

  • People like me who are white, thin, conventionally attractive, basically aren't affected by criminalization

  • for the most part at all.

  • Whereas people like some of my friends who

  • might be Black, might be trans, they are going to have the police throw at them whatever

  • laws they can throw.

  • I think a lot of the work that's being done to decriminalize sex work is really important.

  • It's going to be absolutely necessary for our community to heal from the very real trauma

  • that criminalization brought upon us.

  • I'm hoping that we can

  • move away from policing, and prison, and criminalization as a deterrent

  • for morality and bad behavior.

  • Sex workers are everywhere, you know.

  • If you think you don't know a sex worker, you're mistaken.

  • We know it's not going to be easy and we know it's going to take a long time.

  • We're just willing to do the work.

Sex work is one of the few ways that women have relatively easy access to upward mobility

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