By: Taurian J Wolfe-Deveaux

Taurian J Wolfe-Deveaux — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:07:58 +0000

Great article. I don’t think I have ever seen a proper representation of sex work in media period so I am not surprised by any of it. We only get to see people at a snapshot in time. Lots of girls say they never hoe’d but all that ratchet shit doesn’t come from thin air. They are dabblers so they can have the street cred to say xyz. Real sex workers never have the privilege of such.

In addition you have to look at the cultural component of the promotion of sex work in hip hop that is not labeled as such. For her she may feel that she is just telling a regular story

By: Kagehi

Kagehi — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:54:14 +0000

I hear a lot about “reclaiming” words. But.. honestly, it almost never works. There are invariably more assholes that either use the current version of the word to denigrate everyone involved, or who actually define the current usage through their abuses and bad behavior than there are those fighting to take it back. Unless, and until you have a way to overcome *that*, and successfully beat back those who fit the current definition, to the point where it is no longer far more likely that they are what the word has come to mean than anything else, there is little point. And.. maybe it isn’t something to be taken back anyway. When, ever, has the word pimp meant anything other than what it does now? Because, lets be serious, when sex work came to “most” of America (not including the east coast, where it likely did exist, and was *still* exploitative, it was run by women, for women, and helped found the west. And none of them used the term “pimp”, that I am aware of.

So, what would you be actually “taking back”, and do we even want it? Isn’t it better to strive for a point in which either a new word is used, or better yet, the only word that actually applies is the correct one, “employer”?

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