Good work #Belgium!

#SexWork

https://mastodon.ie/@SWAIIreland/114280515543783119

ICYMI Belgium listened to sex workers' needs and decriminalised sex work! Criminalisation of sex work creates vulnerability and increases violence.

These laws were brought in while increasing sentences for rape and centring consent within the law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygn31ypdlo

... WTF

OnlineFirst - "Locating online labour: The salience of the national scale in remote digital work" by Hanne M Stegeman and Kate Hardy":

#spatialdifferentiation #platforms #digitalwork #onlinelabour #sexwork

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251322361

The laws that claim to protect sex workers are, in reality, resulting in harassment and violence. Sex workers' needs are being ignored in favour of ideology-based laws rather than safety.

#Sexwork

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/client-with-a-lot-of-respect-for-women-gets-five-year-sentence-for-escort-attack/a1072986948.html

In the midst of one of the busiest weeks I've had in ages, I was grateful to get a chance to share a glass of wine with friends and set the world to rights. #spanking #sexwork

The Wellcome Collection has a good exhibition on right now about the effect of labour on the body on plantations, on the street and at home. As usual, I get distracted by things like this...

Here's a review, a literary piece on #Anora written by a sex worker. It confirms my suspicions, but it also is a great text. So make sure you read it.
"Romance Labor: on Sean Baker’s Anora"

"Whatever satisfaction I could have derived from the representation of sex workers in film is suffocated by the condescension of liberal representation politics wherein marginalized people are depicted as most authentic in states of suffering."

#SexWork #MustRead #oscars
https://angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

Work is like buses - weeks without many commitments, and suddenly they all come along at once. #sexworker #sexwork

Today in Labor History March 3, 1903: U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which bolstered previous immigration law, while adding four new classes of banned people: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. Congress first discussed banning anarchists from entering the U.S. in 1889, in the wake of the Haymarket affair, when 8 innocent anarchists were framed for a bombing at a public demonstration in support of the eight-hour workday. Then, in 1901, Leon F. Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, assassinated President William McKinley. The police responded by arresting numerous anarchists who had no connection whatsoever to the assassination, including Emma Goldman. The new immigration law had minimal effect. Over the next 11 years, only 11 anarchists were denied entry into the U.S., and four were expelled, under the law, including British anarchist John Turner.

Interesting story in the local paper from reporter Susan Du.

A sidebar of sorts, I suppose, to the "Anora" Academy Award story? Or vice versa?

Anyway, UNION.

'The Stripper Guild was created by the Sex Workers Organizing Project (SWOP) of Minneapolis, which received a $258,000 Bush Foundation grant in 2022 to start building a labor organization for strippers.' …

'Workers Confluence organizing director Casey Hudek said sex workers face great barriers to collective advocacy in a deeply exploited sector without the protections that come with being formal employees. But “there’s dignity in all work and all workers deserve a seat at the table,” he said.'
https://www.startribune.com/new-minneapolis-stripper-guild-is-building-labor-solidarity-among-downtown-dancers/601230290

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Poverty, exploitation, and bed fees: Sex work in interwar Lithuania.

In the interwar Republic of Lithuania, prostitution was legal until the mid-1930s. However, sex workers’ health was strictly checked twice a week, and instead of an identity document, they were given so-called yellow passports which bore the results of the check.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250223-poverty-exploitation-and-bed-fees-sex-work-in-interwar-lithuania?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward