I find that how easy, safe, and enjoyable I can make my work is directly related to whether I can survive on what I’m currently making … I might be safer if I refused any clients who make their disrespect for me clear immediately, but I know exactly where I can afford to set the bar on what I need to tolerate. If I haven’t been paid in weeks, I need to accept clients who sound more dangerous than I’d usually be willing to risk.

When sex workers speak to this, we are often seemingly misheard as defending some kind of ‘right’ for men to pay for sex. In fact, as Wages For Housework articulated in the 1970s, naming something as work is a crucial first step in refusing to do it – on your own terms. Marxist-feminist theorist Silvia Federici wrote in 1975 that ‘to demand wages for housework does not mean to say that if we are paid we will continue to do it. It means precisely the opposite. To say that we want money for housework is the first step towards refusing to do it, because the demand for a wage makes our work visible, which is the most indispensable condition to begin to struggle against it.’ Naming work as work has been a key feminist strategy beyond Wages For Housework. From sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s term ‘emotional labour’, to journalist Susan Maushart’s term ‘wife-work’, to Sophie Lewis’s theorising around surrogacy and ‘gestational labour’, naming otherwise invisible or ‘natural’ structures of gendered labour is central to beginning to think about how, collectively, to resist or reorder such work.

Just because a job is bad does not mean it’s not a ‘real job’. When sex workers assert that sex work is work, we are saying that we need rights. We are not saying that work is good or fun, or even harmless, nor that it has fundamental value. Likewise, situating what we do within a workers’ rights framework does not constitute an unconditional endorsement of work itself. It is not an endorsement of capitalism or of a bigger, more profitable sex industry. ‘People think the point of our organisation is [to] expand prostitution in Bolivia’, says ONAEM activist Yuly Perez. ‘In fact, we want the opposite. Our ideal world is one free of the economic desperation that forces women into this business.’

It is not the task of sex workers to apologise for what prostitution is. Sex workers should not have to defend the sex industry to argue that we deserve the ability to earn a living without punishment. People should not have to demonstrate that their work has intrinsic value to society to deserve safety at work. Moving towards a better society – one in which more people’s work does have wider value, one in which resources are shared on the basis of need – cannot come about through criminalisation. Nor can it come about through treating marginalised people’s material needs and survival strategies as trivial. Sex workers ask to be credited with the capacity to struggle with work – even to hate it – and still be considered workers. You don’t have to like your job to want to keep it.”]

always.

once will and mack get together, maybe that’s when the sharks are getting good and in the playoffs and so cat gets on of the wags jackets but the kids version for molly with both of their numbers on it and makes it custom for will and mack.

Hey Simone, how’s it going with life. Listen, after a while, when you’re not that busy or have plenty of time. Could you do a short story fanfic on the Disney short film, “the saga of windwagon smith” from 1961. They have a quite nice short love story in the short and the fanfic could be about the love story of Molly crum and Captain smith taken right after the short. But do take your time with this and there’s no need to rush or stress with yourself, I’ll be patience with myself and I’m sure it’ll be great just like all of your written work. I’ll wish for the best of you and your next work. Keep up with the great work and have a great day. 👍

Here’s the link for the short:

https://youtu.be/FK2zICjuYok?si=Or0-e_t0dsY3e9O1

Hey dear! Finally... thanks for your patience 🩷 I hope you like it!

and for @flufftober 2025 - day 12 - blizzard or heatwave

Fandom: The Saga of Windwagon Smith (1961) Disney Cartoon Pairing: Captain Smith/Molly the mare´s daughter Rating: T Words: 1061

The wagon drifted across the prairie, hardly touching the sandy ground. This was nothing unusual these days. The people got used to the transport vessel that offered a ride from town to town, steered by the famous and well-known Captain Smith. Murmurs got loud when the sails got into view on the horizon. “Look, it´s the wind wagon arriving!” they´d call out and some curious voices could be heard in a low whisper, “and his beautiful wife Molly.”

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Haddis Way - Molly Smith, 2022.

American , b . 1976 -

[REGULAR LOVE] Playing The Tea Time.

Rosita está jugando al parecer a la hora del té con sus hermanitas y sus padres se emocionan al verlas jugar juntas.

Rose she is apparently playing at tea time with her little sisters and thier parents are excited to see them playing together.

Created By @nicomxm23.

Anya is the Fanchild of @jane-lafurry.