The process of getting a sw (full) decrim resolution passed at the 2019 DSA convention was heartbreaking. It passed, but the harassment me + my co-writers faced from af3irm members was horrible. Grateful still for @RedCanarySong’s thread on this:
As COVID-19 intensifies the hypervisibility of people who sell sex, I’m seeing many non-sw weaponize “you don’t want to have to address nuance” against sex workers resisting victimization, but often these sex workers *are* the ones attempting to address nuance. They know nuance!!
From what I can tell—despite there being *a lot* to unpack in recent and ongoing anti-sex work discourse—many arguments regarding sex work (at least in anti-capitalist dialogue) are stemming from contention around if sexual labor would exist in a post-revolution society or not
And that’s actually a conversation most anti-capitalist sex workers are here for. If we’re imagining a transformation of work and social relations, it makes sense to include sexual work and sexual relations in that reimagining