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I was talking about my film yesterday and someone asked me why I care about sex workers so much. I thought I’d take the time to explain why I care about sex workers and you should, too. #SexWorkIsRealWork 1/
Full disclosure, I was a survival sex worker while I was #homeless. I used to carry a lot of shame over it, but I’ve made my peace with the experience. My experience is not universal. 2/
For starters, you should care about sex workers because we’re people, and there is a basic level of empathy that any decent person should maintain for others. I could end right here. 3/
Here we go. @NickKristof calls for Paypal to stop working with adult companies — with no mention of the real ways CSAM is shared online. Because private social media channels and the Dark Web aren't of interest to the evangelicals he works with. nytimes.com/2021/04/16/opi…
His source again is Laila Micklewait, who — again — is not with Exodus Cry, an Evangelical organization that wants to stop sex work, but with "The Justice Defense Fund" 
And just for good I-don't-care-about-actual-data measure, he throws in the terrible study from the British Journal of Criminology and *drumroll* entirely misrepresents it. Now it shows *actual* sexual violence.
