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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 7h

(2/2) Yeah, no. You cannot advocate for women's equality and the betterment of their lives if you exclude ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE. Patriarchy does much the same. And if patriarchy does this, then how are you "fighting" it? Short answer: you're not. Don't be the patriarchy's puppet.

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 7h

(1/2) Something important needs to be reiterated for #WomensHistoryMonth (Canada): trans women are women. Sex workers are women. Trans sex workers are women. Much (primarily cis and white) feminist thought excludes sex workers and trans women/femme persons from its movement.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 1d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 9h

#sexwork #sexworkiswork

dzz Yenn @dz-yenn.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ An important 🏥 #Health note/update for SWers in 🇦🇺 #Australia.

Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association @scarletalliance.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a My Health Record? Be aware that changes are being made to the online medical records system which may impact sex worker privacy.

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Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.social · 19h

As a person who twice barely avoided getting kidnapped and sent to conversion therapy by my own family members it is very disheartening to hear that conversion therapy is still being discussed. Last i checked the only thing it converts is living kids to dead ones.

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 10h

"Chronic pain is thus cast as a personal failure; if a chronically pained person continues to be in pain, it is because they have not tried hard enough—they have failed to control their pain and failed to control their bodymind."
-- Emma Sheppard, “Chronic Pain as Fluid, BDSM as Control” (2019)

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 10h

i've lived with ME/CFS for 25+ years. i'm Australian, but the UK's invalidation and gaslighting of people with ME/CFS - cf. the thread on the below post - nevertheless affect me because the Australian government puts stock in things like the well-discredited UK PACE study.
#disability #mecfs

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 10h

etc. etc., that should be addressed in order to reduce costs, well before further burdening participants and their carers/families in ways that might well _increase_ costs to the system in the long(er) run. /3

Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 10h

there are many inefficiencies in the system, such as the absurd rules described by the below article, and shonky providers, and SCs who _create_ work for participants and carers (we lost several months to one), and the NDIA itself making decisions that are eventually overturned by the AAT, /2

Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 20h

My experience is that this sort of absurdity is .... not uncommon.
"She recently applied for approval to spend her [NDIS] funds on a $2,600 Thermomix ... but was rejected.
"Instead, she was told by the [NDIA] she could spend $10,500 on a support worker to cook for her."
#auspol #ndis #disability

'I was so cross': NDIS participants blast 'nonsensical' spending rules

A year after a controversial NDIS change, advocates are growing increasingly concerned that "counterintuitive" and "nonsensical" funding decisions are reducing participant independence.

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 10h

🙂 My position is basically: Setting aside the fact that NDIS could be covered by things like not subsidising the US naval industry, and by making corporations actually pay an appropriate amount of tax, and by not giving fossil fuels to corporations for free, /1

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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 11h

👍 Both of my partners are on the NDIS, and i'm a Plan Nominee for one of them. i very much agree with what you're saying about the lack of focus on shonky providers; it's something i regularly post about (cf. e.g. below).

Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · Jul 31

If only the government was as willing to resource the auditing and blocking of shonky NDIS providers bleeding the system as it is to resource denial of important/critical supports for NDIS participants - which creates extra costs in other healthcare systems.
#auspol #disability #ndis #australia

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