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SOLACE has officially begun its first workplace investigations. If you're in Ontario and experienced workplace harm in the adult industry, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Submit a complaint via the SOLACE page on our website and we will help you as best we can. ❤️

You can’t “protect” people while denying them autonomy.

@purity_culture @plamedi432 OKAY so far just “revolting prostitutes” for sex work (and that I personally read asa Akiras biography and Liked It ha), but we have some leftist radical books too? Current book club is reading assata shakurs biography

@plamedi432 @corasottawa Putting a pin on this! 📌 I would love to check out the list too.

We’re a worker-led group, made up entirely of sex workers, working directly with sex workers. There is no distance between us and those we serve. We don’t operate in theory- we operate in reality. That means plain language, that means direct aid, direct financial support, unconventional protests- civic disruptions! It means meeting needs as they actually exist, and sometimes those needs are met outside of patriarchal and colonial systems. If that makes institutions, or those with institutional power uncomfortable, it’s because we’re not built to serve them- we’re built to serve workers. We might be radical and disturbing to polished lawmakers and salaried directors, BUT we are enacting change and we are getting help where it is needed most.

the ladies love lesbian smut, fries and modern whore ❤️🤭

Reddit mods (and a lot of users) generally hate when women are the ones profiting off their labor, so they only allow questionable free porn (often revenge porn or illegal in some way) or bot porn where they can guarantee a man is profiting.

Decriminalization is harm reduction.

@plamedi432 Yes- let me compile a list and get back to you!

@corasottawa Do you guys have an ideological reading list?

Any information published is anonymized and confirmed by the worker before it’s shared. Local workers have long been discussing dangerous workplaces named & publicly on social media; this is not new. As well, many of these places practices are already part of the public record through court publications, media, reports and other legal decisions. These publications aren’t always in favor of the workers. What we’ve done is create a structured, worker-led way to document and respond to that reality that emphasizes the importance of labor rights for these workers. We also operate private networks where more in-depth or sensitive information stays within the community. However, those networks aren’t accessible to everyone- particularly newer or isolated workers, who are often the most vulnerable, who these places prey on specifically- I.e; posting for “hostesses” and then surprising the workers they entice with the fact that they’re a brothel. Public visibility helps bridge that gap and creates some level of accountability where, historically, there has been very little. These institutions should be answering to workers, led by workers… but not exploiting workers. We do find it notable that these concerns are emerging more suddenly alongside recent harassment directed at one of our staff. That doesn’t invalidate the concern, but it does matter contextually. We fear whenever workers group together (as this is all we are, a group of ~80 local workers come together to advocate for our rights) the public finds ways to minimize and shut down any ground breaking initiatives taken, instead of thinking we’re worth leading our own movements. We do understand worries about how information could be used, but the alternative- keeping harm entirely private- has allowed these patterns to continue unchecked. We take concerns like this seriously and do have a formal process for the board reviewing them. You’re welcome to reach out at admin@safersexwork.org if you’d like us to look into any specific concerns further than what can be achieved on social media discourse, and we appreciate the insight.

@corasottawa Criminalization, surveillance, exposure, lack of work, stigma etc. harms SWers chronically. Working in networks provides security. I was w a SW advocacy org w a national ph# SWers called w concerns. We investigated complaints & shared info w SWer only. My concern is public info.

SOLACE has officially begun its first workplace investigations. If you're in Ontario and experienced workplace harm in the adult industry, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Submit a complaint via the SOLACE page on our website and we will help you as best we can. ❤️

@kittysnectar That’s crazy, people don’t enjoy violent stigma about their own autonomy ?

almost like ostracizing an entire group of women for creating the very content u consume exorbitantly makes ppl depressed & fucks w their minds

@themarinadove @paygoddesseva okay well if this was true our world leaders would be WAY cooler

you guys know payment processors won’t allow sissy hypno kink on porn platforms bc christofascists genuinely believe sex workers can mind control men and make them transgender

@CanadianSexPro We have zero institutional power. This is workers- many from brothels- building a system to support each other where nothing else exists. 
What actually harms workers is assault, exploitation, theft, etc- and being ignored when it happens. We are here for each other.

@corasottawa very concerned about this and how it could be published and then used by police. Losing workplaces doesn't help sex workers.

Creators who are thinking about going to reddit, or are already on there, I made a sub for us. It's a SFW sub but for creators. Since we get chased out of a lot of SFW spaces. It will help you build your acct/karma and gives fans a chance to connect a little more personally.

As a reminder: If youre a SW-er in Ontario and have faced any kind of harm due to your employer, management, etc, in the adult industry (up to and including brothels, erotic spas, strip clubs, etc) we can help! Just fill out the form on our website; corasfoundation.org/solace

Do you remember when you joined X? We do! #MyXAnniversary (Over) Two years now of supporting SWers and survivors! Bigger and better coming!

Mandatory HIV testing doesn’t protect people; it drives stigma, and pushes folks away from care. Trusted public health only needs access and to be safe, not coercion.

whores supporting whores is actually the most stable economic model i’ve ever seen

If your “community work” depends on shutting out other nonprofits, you turn the whole thing into a race to the bottom for everyone involved. There’s no shortage of impact to be made, only a shortage of people willing to collaborate. Work together, always. Opinions can differ- but if you keep the mission as your priority, sharing resources and opportunities will always end up as a win for everyone involved.

@dannyfromottawa Thank you!!!

@corasottawa She does an excellent job

We’re set up! Lots of freebies at 175 MTL road! ❤️❤️❤️

@paygoddesseva Happy Easter!!!