#worker exploitation

Sex work is not more emotionally intimate than all other forms of work. Emotional intimacy can be involved in therapy, care work, and writing about deeply personal topics.

Sex work is not the only form of work which can involve genital contact. This happens in medical environments, care work and when giving genital piercings.

Sex work is not uniquely dangerous. Fishing, construction and underwater welding all have high fatality and injury rates.

Sex work is not more prone to trafficking than all other forms of work. People are trafficked in huge numbers in the agricultural industry and for the manufacture of textiles.

Sex work is not the only form of work which involves frequent sexual harassment. People are often sexually harassed whilst doing bar work, waiting tables and providing health care and social assistance.

Sex work is not the only type of work that is criminalized. Other types of work like busking without a license, drug dealing, con artistry and any kind of job which requires authorisation form a third party where that isn't obtained.

BRAVE-HEARTED, they STARTED at HAY-MARKET, came MARCHING, be- -CAME TARGETS, we HONOR the MAY-MARTYRS.

Now I’m filing a lawsuit, and I am incredibly pissed off. I’m a neuroscientist with published research on my disability, and they’re weaponizing the language of the ADA in an attempt to deny me work accommodations. I am not surprised this is happening because i’ve been dealing with scummy and gaslighting agencies my entire life, but I am mad that if they have the audacity to behave this way around a disability expert and advocate, then I am horrified at what the average disabled employee is treated like. Personally I am not okay with this, and professionally I am not okay with the blatant disregard for federal law. Corporations like these absolutely rely on worker exhaustion, confusing jargon, piles of administrative paperwork, and a lack of knowledge about the ADA to exploit disabled employees. This is not just ableism or the signs of late-stage capitalism; this is a scientifically inaccurate understanding of human physiology and civil rights. I firmly believe that if we do not address ableism, corporations will begin to push on able-bodied employees to give up their health for a company’s bottom line.