Reddit mentions of Uptown Thief (Justice Hustlers Book 1)

I’ve edited my first post to reflect how I feel about these replies (yours also resonated with me because of your mentioning intimacy of sex; cognitive dissonance as a lesbian helps me personally but I see where you’re coming from and I feel you on that), but I just wanted to specifically address here you said

> I want to be proud of my partners occupation and there’s no framing way sex work could be a topic of conversation at my family Xmas party

I mean. Yeah. I feel you on that. I do volunteer work in my community with my local homeless population 3 days a week (I’m able to commit so much time because I’m a sex worker and I only work two days a week) and I tell my extended family and my sweetie’s family that’s my “real” job. But I do that for free while sex work pays my bills and helps me get out of my serious medical bill debt. A lot of sex workers are proud of what we do. And we should be because we are all awesome and strong and brave. I can work two days a week, support myself, maintain a long term autoimmune illness that prevents me from maintaining a “normal”/vanilla job, and it helps me meet dope ass women from all over who want to remove the stigma from what we do. But I know my sweetie is proud of me because I make money and am able to use the rest of my time to dedicate to what I love and believe in (my volunteer work, my education to become a translator, the love I give to my pets). My mother (who is the only family member who knows what I do) won’t brag to her friends about it, but she will tell them about my other accomplishments outside of work. She also appreciates that because of the money I make I’m able to help make sure my grandmother gets the hospice care she needs but would not be able to afford otherwise.

Sex work is a very low barrier job for people who don’t have options or are limited in their choices for employment because of education limits, health limitations, caregiver obligations, or other reasons. You should be proud of what sex workers do because we are, at our core, strong and brave and weird and cool fucking people. We don’t need you to be proud of us but if you were, we’d really appreciate your support. I really recommend reading the Justice Hustlers books for a fictionalized but fantastic account that normalizes sex work and touches on a lot of our normal lives, as well as getting in touch with your local SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project) events to learn more about sex workers and who we are.

Also, feel free to PM me if you have more questions (same for anyone reading this! as long as you’re respectful, I want to answer questions and help clear up the stigma that keeps us in the shadows).

Thank you for replying to my question. I appreciate you and I really look forward to hearing from you if you have any more input.

ETA: Hey, thanks for downvoting me whoever you are! Please PM me with your dissonance or reply to me here and show yourself. By all means. I won’t judge you if you’re honest about how you feel, but I do judge you for being a coward, you fuck. @ u/Phyllotreta hmu if you have questions. I trust that you would actually respond.