![]() I was always uncomfortable with the debate around my life because the “experts” and “humanitarian” organization speaking for me were so divorced from my reality. No matter what, violence and dehumanization was painted as an inescapable part of my existence. ![]() ![]() I was either a criminal or a victim and oftentimes I was both. I felt growing up that I constantly had to play into a dichotomy that society had chosen for me. The hardest thing about being an undocumented immigrant and a sex worker is navigating the ways in which my identities are compartmentalized. “ Abolitionists” that work with the feds and law enforcement desperately want the state to find us and confine us into prisons, deportations, orphanages, small and private “rehabilitation programs”, or temporary basic services they create, profit from, and build careers around. People in my community often hide underground because it’s safer than being found from our oppressors who call themselves liberators. I’m always get uneasy about people affiliated with non-profit organizations and anti sex industry people advocating on my behalf. It was meant to be a roundtable discussion with a diverse group of people so that the members could better access how they could best help the community. I was invited to speak to the Peace & Social Action Committee (PSAC), a group that’s part of the Flushing, Queens meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers) about sex work and human trafficking.
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