.@JoyceCarolOates You, assuming that me and my friends are always already criminal? That's harassment, too.
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@JoyceCarolOates wrote that men "freely & without incident." Black and brown men don't. See stop-and-frisk.1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates Also: I wrote earlier that I didn't understand what the white man was propositioning because I hadn't done sex work.1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates By writing that I hadn't done sex work, I was low key attaching myself to some kind of respectability. Fuck that.1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates There's an implicit way in which I was attaching an inherent value to myself because I wasn't a sex worker.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates And that inherent value relies on the inherent devaluing of sex workers. And for that, I apologize.1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates The other thing attached to this: I still found a way to blame myself for this rich white man attacking me on Park Ave.1 reply 3 retweets 5 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates I wrote "bc I didn't understand..." No. It wasn't up to me understand shit. It was up to that white man to not attack me.1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes -
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@JoyceCarolOates Even in trying to claim and finally make public one of my street harassment stories, I still blamed myself.1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
.@JoyceCarolOates But I'm letting that go. I was a teenage girl in a dress on Park Avenue. And I deserved to be treated like a human being.
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@aurabogado Aura, thank you so much for sharing this. You are brave and I admire you.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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