mxjackparker
mxjackparker

Transactional Intercourse: A Trans & Intersex SW Anthology, over 300 pages, Essays about intersecting oppression, personal stories, rants and interviews, Writing from 31 sex workers, all trans and/or intersex, Input from hundreds of sex workers, All contributors paid, First of its kind.ALT

Help fund the anthology by pre-ordering yourself a copy right on Kickstarter! Whether you can afford one or not, sharing can help us to get fully funded and get this unique work out into the world to educate and entertain.

Institutional abuse of intersex people and how sex workers are uniquely vulnerable to it. Feeling powerful by setting boundaries for sexual access. How trans and intersex allies fail to show support for the sex working population among us. Anti-Asian racism and the stereotypes about trans sex workers in Asian countries. Creating porn for queer audiences and retaking control. Working while stealth. Parenthood as someone considered unfit or wrong to raise children in multiple waysALT
What topics will be covered? Advertising sexual services as an intersex person on platforms with binary categories. Differences in treatment of trans and intersex sex workers by country, with a focus on immigrant sex workers. Using sex work to pay for gender-affirming care. Perspectives on media depictions of Black trans sex workers compared to the reality, with a focus on street sex work. Clients exploring their own sexuality and gender identity during bookings with trans and intersex workers.ALT
Cost breakdown. Each contributor will be paid £250 for a written piece of 1000 words or more.  To pay writers, printing costs, fees, and interviewees... it’s £15,700 to break even!ALT
E-book £5, Paperback £15, Omnibus £35, Bundle £25ALT
Help us to document trans/intersex sex workers experiences and educate those who want to learn by supporting the anthology! Funding is all or nothing!ALT

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mxjackparker

You have until January 7th to pre-order a copy of Transactional Intercourse through Kickstarter, now we’re past the initial funding. The e-book will be sent out on February 1st with physical copies by the end of the month! All backers get a “thank you” in the book and will get the audiobook for free when it releases.

(The book will come out for everyone else in April if you can’t support now, but backing this way helps subsidize copies going out to trans and intersex sex workers who can’t afford them. )

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haven’t watched this show or read the books but i can’t stop thinking about how much fun tumblr in the heated rivalry universe would be on the day the main characters’ relationship finally goes public

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heated rivalry universe dashboard simulator circa 20XX

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as a gay person i am so impressed with ilya rozanov and shane hollander's bravery in coming out at the peak of their careers (while captaining two of the best teams in the league!) and think this has the potential to have an incredibly positive impact on the state of homophobia in men's professional sports and sports fan culture, as well as the mental health of gay players at every level. however as a boston fan who is still bitter about ilya transferring i hope jakey dies

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🦈 alldayidreamaboutsjsharks Follow

ANOTHER WIN FOR MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE RPF

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#okay obviously this is soooo selfish and i swear i'm happy for those hockey guys and all #but my favorite ever ao3 author got really into hockey rpf a while ago #and now i'm worried this is just gonna inspire them even more #and they're never gonna get back to the grey's anatomy multichapter wip i followed them for :( #i know fic authors don't owe updates but like. ugh. whatever #do not rb

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SINCE 2008?!

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me when i remember how long it's been since castiel debuted on supernatural

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i get that everyone's having fun and all but they're not even the first openly gay professional hockey players on their respective teams. like maybe calm down a little

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not gonna name names but wow some people really want to minimize the bravery it takes for two queer men to be open about their relationship in a professional athletic environment just bc said queer men don't play for their preferred hockey team lmao

#your homophobia is showing babe!

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so you're telling me those two hockey players who people shipped for a literal decade just admitted they're a couple for real?

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op is a harry styles x barack obama shipper btw. like they're saying this gives them hope harry styles and barack obama are going to admit their secret decade-plus relationship too. just in case you forgot that most rpf shippers are completely insane

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oh so now the death stranding mpreg blog wants to preach to us

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I feel like something that’s often missing from trans discourse about potential self-infantilization and using “girl” and “boy” as self-descriptors as an adult is that many trans people feel they missed out on girlhood or boyhood as their actual gender. Going on HRT is called a second puberty for more than one reason.

It’s okay to feel like you’re not quite ready to assert yourself as a man or a woman when you’ve only just come out, and instead to opt for the words we already use for people growing into men and women.

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mxjackparker

If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.

If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.

We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!

mxjackparker

Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:

  • You see someone you don't recognize walk past reception at your hotel to head directly for the stairs or elevator or towards the rooms without acknowledging you at the reception desk. Yes, this includes when the person is wearing revealing clothing or a nice dress and heels. This is not your business.
  • You notice multiple men going to the same hotel room during the same evening, each only staying for an hour or so at a time. This is not your business.
  • You seat two customers for dinner and work as their waiter/waitress for the night. You see one give an envelope of cash to the other. Yes, this includes when there's a huge age gap between the two and they're being affectionate. This is not your business.
  • You overhear one customer ask another how much they charge for a night, whilst making drinks for them. You heard nothing. This is not your business.

I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!

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if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.

if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.

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@clownfluencer I swear this post attracts the MOST false info in the tags of any post I’ve made, with people being so confidently wrong.

As someone who has sold sex in Canada, the sex worker will be punished if caught! At minimum, this will be by being kicked out of the place you found them soliciting or seeing a client and lose out on money, but if the person is an immigrant on a work permit or is visiting from another country you’ll get them deported/sent home and the engagement in prostitution will be logged and get them banned from travelling to various countries. There are absolutely serious consequences to reporting sex workers in Canada.

This is true anywhere clients are criminalized, therefore selling sex cannot be considered a legitimate profession, meaning it breaks the rules of work visas or a right to travel there.

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cars are so much scarier than planes. i've literally never been afraid on an airplane like first of all being on a plane is fun. second of all you're in a big as fuck vehicle with no other vehicles around for miles and the person at the wheel is a professional and not just Some Guy. one time i was getting a ride home from a nonbinary friend of a friend who was driving very erratically down the highway at 1am and they said to me unprompted "i have ocd so i only drive at speeds that are multiples of five"

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this was years ago but i ran into them again at a party and they didn't recognize me (transition) so they started hitting on me and wouldnt stop talking to me about criminal minds yaoi. and i've never had this happen with an airline pilot, at least not an openly airline pilot

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Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

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i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.

I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56.

75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah.

4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah.

1 transgender student playing girls sports.

86% of trans youth reporting suicidality.

56% of trans youth having attempted suicide.

Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.

of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.

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Blorbo dress up - sherwani version!

(click and open in new tab for details and such ✨)

Also, moving this tag to the caption so ppl don't get the wrong idea: the bg is a stock photo of the City Palace in Jaipur that I maniped a bit; i do NOT have the patience for that level of detail when it comes to backgrounds lmao


(and the bonus sketch of him dancing with sybelle in this fit, now with no readmore <3)

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DO NOT REPOST!!!

literally gasped this is stunning

Having a crush you’re not acting on is a special kind of derangement I swear