6/20/19 review of the book Revolting Prostitutes, by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

Here is the link to my June 20, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights, by Juno Mac and Molly Smith.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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6/19/19 discussion of how I got interested in the sex work decriminalization movement

Here is the link to my June 19, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about how I got interested in the sex work decriminalization movement.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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3/23/19 discussion about addressing sex work and misinformation

Here is the link to my March 23, 2019, Twitter thread, which was a kind of open letter to Colorado State Representatives Leslie Herod and Alex Valdez about ideas for sex work decriminalization and addressing sex trafficking misinformation at Denver International Airport.

In all fairness to Representative Valdez, he did tell me to email him. I can't remember whether I emailed him, but I honestly think I did not. Or, if I did, I don't think I followed up after my first email.

There's really no excuse if ended up not following up on this action.

But what I would say is, I was literally going without food at the time. I was probably more depressed than I'd ever been in my life. I was trying to find some kind of helping hand. And I'm not sure why, but I didn't feel like whatever sort of encouragement I was receiving from Representative Valdez -- and I demonstrably was receiving encouragement -- was going to help me get to whatever sort of stability I was hoping to get to.

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3/10/19 discussion about New York efforts to decriminalize sex work

Here is the link to my March 10, 2019, Twitter thread discussion, in reaction to an article in The Appeal by Melissa Gira Grant, about the sex work decriminalization efforts then happening in New York State.

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1/13/19 discussion about sex work decriminalization being the practical choice

Here is the link to my January 13, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about why I think decriminalizing sex work is the practical thing to do, as well as why I don't agree with the mindset involved when sex workers feel like so much of their messaging needs to address the difference between sex work and sex trafficking.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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12/30/18 review of the "confusing" year 2018

Here is the link to my December 30, 2018, Twitter thread review of the year 2018.

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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12/17/18 review of vigil for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Here is the link to my December 17, 2018, Twitter thread review of Denver's 2018 International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers vigil.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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10/10/18 review of the book Playing the Whore, by Melissa Gira Grant

Here is the link to my October 10, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, by Melissa Gira Grant.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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6/15/18 discussion about the US Code and FOSTA-SESTA

Here is the link to my June 15, 2018, Twitter thread discussion about some research I did into the US Code to understand FOSTA-SESTA better.

As I've mentioned a lot before, I was deeply concerned when Congress passed FOSTA-SESTA in early 2018, as I felt the law would threaten freedom of sexual speech in general.

This thread signifies a turning point in my ideas about FOSTA-SESTA, as it really is when I decided to stop focusing on all sexual speech and to start focusing only on sex work decriminalization.

I don't think my choice was 100% smart. And I think I've spent about a year now trying to refocus myself on other aspects of freedom of sexual speech that actually are gravely impacted by FOSTA-SESTA and other laws like it.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.