I literally can't do this anymore.
Backstory: I started doing sex work when I was 19 back in 2010. I became an anarchist as a teenager and hung out at infoshops during my high school years. After I went off to college I began doing SW, largely because I viewed it as a way to make money that didn't involve wage slavery. Many of the other anarchist women I knew (both cis and trans) were SWers and introduced me to the whole culture. I loved every minute of it. I got to work on my own terms with no hierarchical domination by a boss. I could decide my own schedule. I could say no to clients I thought were creepy or oppressive. I wasn't paying taxes to the settler-colonialist AmeriKKKan government. To me, and many other anarchist comrades, sex work was anti-work.
During my time as a SW, I was able to finish college and pay off my student loans in no time at all. I was able to pay my rent in a city where rent prices are through the roof. I was able to contribute to paying for my friends' and comrades' rent, student loan debt, medical bills, legal bills, HRT, bike repair, ADHD medications, and many other things involving mutual aid. Between 2014-2017 I was making more money than I knew what to do with. At my "peak" I was making $2k a week. It was an incredible experience. And best of all, I felt like I was actually engaging in anarchism. I wasn't being a hypocrite when it came to my values. I was telling the capitalist system and the state to fuck off and showing that my body or my will couldn't be dominated. All of that changed when the pandemic hit. I couldn't serve clients anymore due to the lockdowns. But the biggest problem was something even worse. Around this time began the growth of OnlyFans. I saw how more and more people fully integrated into the colonial-capitalist system were starting OF accounts. So I started one too, and I started making money, but it was nowhere near what I was making as a SW previously.
And this is exactly why I'm thinking of quitting SW. OnlyFans has essentially done to SW what AirBNB has done to housing and Uber has done for public transportation. But the worst part is, OF has made SW no longer subversive. SW was originally a way for marginalized and colonized folx to break out of wage slavery and become their own boss, and also to reclaim control of their bodies from the colonial-imperialist-YT supremacist-capitalist-patriarchal cistem. Now, every single suburban white girl starts an OnlyFans the day
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