Thread by @brwneyedamzn

🧵 Folks would literally take a dedicated medical professional off the streets in the middle of a pandemic BEFORE they would allow themselves to be sex worker positive and not engage in misogyny.

Make it make sense!

#LaurenKwei

This woman, Lauren, knew she didn’t have the mental and physical bandwidth after a 40-hour work week as a medic to turn around and take on a second job (and as someone who could be a potential patient thank goodness for her self awareness).

This poor young medic may lose her job tomorrow because she found a creative way to make ends meet. She turned to onlyfans as a way to supplement her income from the privacy and safety of her home.

She was asked to participate in this NY Post interview and agreed on the grounds that she remain anonymous. The author took it upon himself to disregard that agreement and out her identity.

REPULSIVE & UNETHICAL.

Now folks are trashing her— includes peers in her field. There are men fixing their mouths to talk trash about her— agreeing about being underpaid but chastising her for finding ways to survive. Because we’ve never heard of men posing topless in firefighter calendars, right? 🔥

She has a father who is very ill & is about to be out of work so not only is she supporting herself but also her family & she’s managing to do it w:o taking a second job that puts her in direct contact with the public AND covid.

That’s what’s called being smart and thoughtful.

This article could’ve easily been about the medic who took the second job serving drinks in the busy bar or driving the Uber and now she is patient zero at her job but it isn’t because she made a wise decision.

A decision that was within HER RIGHT because it is HER BODY.

If that was the story we would all get mad about how it’s unfair she had to take that second job that lead to being a superspreader. She’d be our angelic medic who helped shed light on how EMTs aren’t paid appropriately etc. Instead, ppl get to make her the villain & the whore.

Fact check: She did nothing wrong. She hurt no one. Sex work is work.

Here’s how you can support Lauren:

gofundme.com/f/help-lauren-…

UPDATE: here’s the update that Lauren just posted on the gofundme. I have mad respect for this young woman 🙌🏽

She took a shitty situation that some trash rag of a paper created for her and she’s using it to amplify the work and the needs of her peers. Bravo!