this pride month can we focus on how policing affects black queers, especially black trans women, and how so much of society is built on accepting this as inevitable?
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the first two weeks when i moved to san francisco and to work in games, i had 4 men approach me in westfield mall in broad daylight soliciting me for sex. it scared me and i couldn't understand why this was happening so much. it really fucked with my self-image
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as i gained more sex workers in my circles i learned that it was likely police profiling me as a sex worker and trying to sting me for sex work. simply because of how i looked
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i looked up similar cases that happened across the country where simply being read as a black trans woman means you're a sex worker. even black trans women who went to the police for help were assumed to be sex workers and arrested
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it is embedded into the cultural imagination that i am not capable of anything else except sex work. no personality, no love life, no scholarship, no valuable skills other than to do sex work for others. no one outright believes this but it works through people such as the police
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𝚒 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 ♡ 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗
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