the faux ho

If you’ve been following my twitter these past five days you’ve probably noticed I’ve been tweeting alot about a faux ho. Whilst I don’t really have the energy to rehash the entire event because I have other things that I need to focus on, if you remember this post and you read this excellent piece by Miss Maggie Mayhem and click around some of the links the story is easy to put together. Some of my favorite bits of Maggie’s post…

“Sex workers do have the right to speak out against injustice and oppression in its many forms. Sex workers lives were put at risk by the “Expose-A-Ho” blog that popped up after the first wave of Alexa criticism

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I am still proud of my community. Unfortunately now, I have to look as the sea of people who still believe we never had a right to speak up and used the most traditional and archaic forms of insults against women who dare to be assertive and outspoken.

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I still don’t feel good that it took harm to minors for people to even remotely accept the courage people had to speak out against someone who was dangerous especially when there was retaliation for doing so. I am really angry (fucking angry) that people could look at the harm and danger that sex workers experienced as a result of this bullshit and yet still so many people consider it to be invalid. Without some sex workers “sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong” this person could still be out there hurting women and children. This is why we say that sex workers rights are human rights.”