Hey, I wanted to make a post to any friends and followers who are still actually on Tumblr. I wish I had reacted faster to Tumblr’s ban of all nudity but 2018 was rough for me and it took me a while to try to deal with some issues in my life–but I felt like it was important not to rush it or split my focus.
This will probably be lengthy, but I’ll try to keep my rambling to a minimum. I’ve created accounts and played around with several different “Tumblr alternatives”, and I honestly haven’t found any decent replacements that I enjoy using as much as Tumblr–the design of the website, the Livejournal-like design with pre-made layouts as well as being easy to use your own html and tweak things, intuitive posting, wide variety of content you can post, being able to share other artists’ content, how simple it is to interact with fans and like-minded people…etc.
So I decided to try to revive my old site. It’s pretty rough and there’s still a lot I need to figure out/fix. I’m definitely not good at making websites or setting all this stuff up and I am definitely open to suggestions on changes I can make, or other platforms that would be better. I have a Patreon account as well.
My ideas are to offer access to a private blog and a gallery of uncensored nudes that I will update regularly, as well as maybe allowing these members or patrons access to my private IG account where I just post wholesome things like food and sunsets–if people are interested in that. I also intend to sell full photosets separately if people want digital copies. I have also played around with the idea of trying to write short erotica stories and selling those if people have any interest in that.
There are only a few people who know who I am and know about this blog, so I guess I wanted to find out if this is something people are interested in before sharing links to my website or social media. I’d really appreciate feedback on if people are interested in any of this and what they’re interested/what they would like to see. Of course there would still be free content, like my fb page, my main blog and I would like to start streaming on my twitch account.
I think my 3 biggest concerns at the moment are: 1. Making sure if people are donating or spending any amount of money to help support me that they are actually getting content and they feel it’s worth it. 2. But also, making enough money to actually make all of this possible. 3. Streamlining things as much as possible so that people aren’t confused about anything and I am not overwhelmed by trying to manage too many things all at once.
Please, if you were patient enough to read all that–I would love some feedback. Let me know if you’re interested or have suggestions/questions. :)
It was a normal day and I was bored. My back hurt, my feet hurt, basically every body part hurt but I couldn’t leave, obviously, I needed the money.
This relatively unassuming man comes in, in a suit, the kind I see every single day. He opened with “you’re gorgeous,” I smiled and asked what I could do for him. He ignored that and told me he’d always loved Black women and if I wanted to hang out off the clock. Again, I smiled and asked what I could do for him.
He leaned in, and put his hand on my arm. “Do you have a boyfriend?” I asked him why it mattered, he asked why I was being so mean. I told him “I’m just trying to work, dear, what can I do for you?” He said “you can go out with me.” I smiled and shook my head, wondering why he wouldn’t just tell me what he wanted and go. There was no one around and I knew if I said something to anyone, they wouldn’t do anything, anyway.
I finally got him what he wanted and he left, but not before letting me know he’d be back tomorrow. And he did come back. Every day for weeks. And every time, he made me feel uncomfortable, touching me when I said don’t, or otherwise looking at me in the most disgusting way. As I predicted, no one I told would do anything. No one cared. This guy was harassing me every single day and I had no recourse. In fact, some told me I should be grateful, since he was a good tipper.
Anyway, that’s why I quit working at Starbucks.
The point of this post is to illustrate that women get harassed in every industry, not just sex work, by baiting you with what you think is a story about a client mistreating me, when really it was a customer at a coffee shop. This is super good writing here, I’m just saying.
[id: tweet by marla @prolepeach: “The most important part of “sex work is work” imo is that it means “sex workers are workers.” Treat us like workers in struggle, worthy of radicalizing and organizing and unionizing. Do not treat us like victims for you to project onto and pathologize.” /end id]
A new project in #Germany is retraining prostitutes to become care workers for elderly people.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is using €1m (£0.7m; $1.2m) of local and European Union money to try to get #sex trade workers off the street and into care homes.
Heinz Oberlach, from Germany’s Federal Labour Agency, said that using #prostitutes as care workers is “very logical,” as the nursing home sector is seriously understaffed and has some 6400 vacancies nationwide—despite a national unemployment rate of 12% in Germany. Reasons for the shortage include a recent clampdown on Eastern Europeans working illegally as care workers and the reluctance of Germans to take on the work.
