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Title: Passions
Post by: Butterfly on September 13, 2010, 05:08:35 PM
Post by: Butterfly on September 13, 2010, 05:08:35 PM
Passions
By Dyssonance
12 September, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=10443 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=10443)
Here's a fact of life: most trans people are involved in sex work at one point or another. Here's another fact: sex work is often somewhat validating to many trans people — it is perceived as recognition of one's self, and enables exploration and release of things. It gives them a sense of hope and possibility because the general story in the trans world is that it is really hard to find a partner with whom to share one's life, and sex working allows one to make money.
Often damn good money.
The importance of passing — of being taken for something you are not — comes from the sex industry. The "daylight test", an element of that, comes from the sex work industry. Stonewall was an uprising of sex workers — some trans of different sorts, some cis of various orientations. They were joined by others who were dealing is issues of poverty and classism.
By Dyssonance
12 September, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=10443 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=10443)
Here's a fact of life: most trans people are involved in sex work at one point or another. Here's another fact: sex work is often somewhat validating to many trans people — it is perceived as recognition of one's self, and enables exploration and release of things. It gives them a sense of hope and possibility because the general story in the trans world is that it is really hard to find a partner with whom to share one's life, and sex working allows one to make money.
Often damn good money.
The importance of passing — of being taken for something you are not — comes from the sex industry. The "daylight test", an element of that, comes from the sex work industry. Stonewall was an uprising of sex workers — some trans of different sorts, some cis of various orientations. They were joined by others who were dealing is issues of poverty and classism.