I would like to say a couple of things about this thread.
First -- Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This is embarrassingly bad in some of my threads -- especially threads where I'm talking about a chronological order of events, like this one. The timeline is so jumbled up. It really frustrates me.
Second -- I think it's funny that I called 2018 a confusing year. Oh, how little I anticipated 2020.
Third -- In these tweets, you'll see me talking directly to Colorado's then-Governor-elect, Jared Polis. I want to make clear -- this is because he was following me on Twitter. He was one of my Twitter followers.
I also want to make it clear -- right before Polis got elected, I had a significant conversation with him over DM on Twitter. Polis told me -- he told me via DM -- that he was sorry he voted for FOSTA-SESTA. He said he made a mistake. And he said he knew that sex workers needed rights.
Governor Polis, I feel, has not honored the conversation he and I had. He has done a lot of other things over the past few years as governor that I've liked. But he has also done a lot of disappointing things.
But I want to make the point here, that when I was talking directly to him in this thread, I was doing so because he followed me on Twitter and because he and I had had a conversation over DM on Twitter about sex work decriminalization and FOSTA-SESTA.
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