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I’ve been very vocally supportive of sex workers & SO many of them have been my absolute biggest supporters/allies. But, the most vile & threatening & real-world abuse I’ve gotten has also been from sex workers. & I now see this happening to others, especially other WOC.
This isn’t okay & I’m not going to entertain this. & whenever we call it our & defends ourselves, we get called “swerfs” & other names. Nevermind if we’ve been openly supportive of sex workers. Nevermind if some of us are or have been sex workers.
You falsely accuse someone of being a bigot just to try to silence them, because if you didn’t make up lies about us in your imagination to justify your abuse then you’d have to come to terms with the reality that you just want to punish us for speaking out & sharing our stories.
Part of your identity being marginalized doesn’t give you a free pass to abuse others & then to yell “carceral feminist” & “you’re going to kill sex workers by calling the cops!!” at us. When our lives are endangered by someone who happens to be a sex worker, we can do whatever+
we need to to protect ourselves. I hope you know that when you say shit like this with your full chest, you sound exactly like the rapists who call you a “snitch” if you reach out for help.
You are disgusting in my book if you fault people being abused & threatened for trying to reach out for help even in a broken system. It’s not our fault as vulnerable people, often abused by cops ourselves (something I’ve also been very vocal about happening to my family & I)
for seeking help & protection in the only way we can. & even if (as happens 99% of the time) we don’t get that from law enforcement, we at the very least have a record of abuse for when things inevitable escalate. Why are we expected to put our own safety last all the time?
Also, I don’t care if you hate me for this because it’s a fact: if you CHOOSE a profession, you’re in a position of privilege over others who have marginalized identities that we CAN’T opt out of- like our race. To see mostly white women piling on WOC is especially infuriating.
In my own experience, I’ve had so many sex workers who are self-admittedly wealthy women (mostly white) from wealthy families who chose to do sex work. Which is fine. But then they compare that to me being trafficked as a kid, something I didn’t choose, & pretend to know my pain.
If you CHOOSE to be in the industry from a place of having options, you are in a position of privilege over 1.) Trafficking survivors who were forced & 2.) Survival sex workers who are there because they have no other options. This should not be controversial to say. It’s a fact.
But yet I see some of the most privileged people in the industry weaponizing that the job they chose is a marginalized identity, to justify attacking & slandering & doxxing & gaslighting women of color who have a multitude of vulnerable identities we did NOT choose-
such as our ethnicity, being disabled, having been trafficked, etc.
I also have seen a lot of this lately- people mocking survivors & saying what happened to us is just an urban legend & that we have to shut up about it so it doesn’t hurt sex workers. When in reality, many of our biggest supporters who want us to keep speaking up ARE sw’ers 
https://twitter.com/avrisapir/status/1294119996285759490
https://twitter.com/avrisapir/status/1294119996285759490
I know that 90% of sex workers reading this will know it’s not about them. But I’m tired of seeing these abusive voices who claim to represent your movement, punching down & attacking vulnerable women. & I know you guys are too- I get hundreds of DM’s a month from sex workers, +
apologizing on behalf of the ones they’ve seen be abusive to me & other women. I appreciate that so much but it’s never your fault that someone else is being abusive just because you have a job in common. But the fact that you care enough to call it out? Thank you 
