As the pandemic drags on, online sex work is helping these nurses make ends meet between school and a lack of steady work.
“At the end of the day, nobody is paying my rent for me, nobody’s gonna pay my car insurance … so I have to do it." buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
While unemployed or unable to sustain other gig work like Uber, women who had no experience with sex work prior to the pandemic now say they see OnlyFans as an option to support themselves buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
Some say the earning potential is promising enough that they plan to stay on OnlyFans even after earning their degrees buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
But as OnlyFans becomes mainstream for some, women say they’re also subjected to greater harassment and concern-trolling.
These nurses said they also fear potential retribution if coworkers or employers discover their OnlyFans accounts buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
For these nurses, OnlyFans has become just another form of gig work, and some say they hope it will lead to the destigmatization of sex work.
“We’re in hard times right now. The way people choose to support themselves is their own business.” buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
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BREAKING: The Senate has voted 52-48 to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Trump’s third Supreme Court justice buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Barrett will join the nation’s highest court amid an election dominated by legal fights over how Americans vote during the coronavirus pandemic.
She’ll also be sworn in two weeks before the court again considers the fate of the Affordable Care Act buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shepherded Barrett’s nomination through the Senate at a record pace to fill the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat just 38 days after her death buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
A statistic called the political stress indicator, which can warn when societies are at risk of erupting into violence, was developed by evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin.
It's spiking in America, just like it did before the Civil War.
A decade ago, Turchin predicted that instability would peak in the years around 2020, due in large part to growing inequality.
And now that we're in 2020, we're faced with a pandemic, civil unrest over racial injustice, and a president stoking unfounded fears of voter fraud.
As the pandemic drags on, families' savings are wiped out as they're pushed to the brink with no relief in sight. buzzfeednews.com/article/veness…
"If we don’t have electricity for a few weeks, then so be it”
They face the unsettling reality that no matter how hard they tried, their ability to make it out of this is mostly out of their hands. buzzfeednews.com/article/veness…
There’s a belief that people can achieve financial security if they just work hard enough, that being poor is a kind of moral failing. But the crisis has underlined that this is a myth. buzzfeednews.com/article/veness…
After seven of his family members were killed, Francisco fled Honduras. He traveled across two countries and endured countless struggles before being sent by the US government to live in a Matamoros camp buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
With policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols in place, winning asylum is rare — especially without a lawyer. And since no one could look at his case, Francisco faced a US immigration court on his own buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
About six months after arriving at the camp, Francisco got the great news: he met the qualifications to receive asylum.
NEW: As the 2020 campaign hurtles toward a close, questions remain about a last-minute, $10 million lifeline Trump threw to his 2016 campaign, a loan that helped catapult him into the presidency buzzfeednews.com/article/kenben…
Speculation has swirled around the source of that money.
But nothing is known about whether the $10 million loan — which the campaign reported as a contribution — was ever repaid, who might have repaid it, and whether it would even be legal to do so
Late in the 2016 campaign, Trump bragged that unlike Hillary Clinton, he couldn’t be bought by powerful corporate interests, because he was using his own money rather than taking big donations buzzfeednews.com/article/kenben…
The viral “Get Your Booty To The Poll” ad has received both praise and criticism for featuring strippers as a tactic to get voters to pay attention not just to the presidential election, but to key down-ballot elections buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
The ad comes as the Joe Biden campaign is reportedly concerned about his ability to win over Black men, a demographic seen as key to winning the presidential election buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…
Jasmine Johnson, a porn performer, educator, and therapist who has been organizing political education panels for sex workers of color through the organization BIPOC Adult Industry Collective, said it was refreshing to see sex workers speaking up buzzfeednews.com/article/otilli…