Comments on: Who Gets Left Out: The People Who Coined The Term—Addendum to the Respectability Politics Round Table https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/ By and about sex workers Sat, 31 May 2014 14:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: The Erasure of Maya Angelou’s Sex Work History | The Erotic Literary Salon: Online https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-76275 Sat, 31 May 2014 14:01:48 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-76275 […] can, once again, boil it down torespectability politics and stigma. I am angry about it. I find myself ruminating, considering, wondering: If her work had […]

]]> By: The Erasure of Maya Angelou’s Sex Work History https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-73535 Thu, 29 May 2014 14:01:59 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-73535 […] can, once again, boil it down to respectability politics and stigma. I am angry about it. I find myself ruminating, considering, wondering: If her work had […]

]]> By: La tyrannie de la respectabilité (aka "Respectability Politics") | Ms. DreydFul https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-17600 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:58:46 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-17600 […] Peechington Marie (10 Octobre 2013) "Who Gets Left Out: The People Who Coined The Term—Addendum to the Respectability Politics Round Table" Du blog Tits and Sass : https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectabili… […]

]]> By: Tiffani Jameson https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-14952 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:38:58 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-14952 This was a wonderfully well-written post!
Very much needed for this day and age. But it’s another societal issue cast in the shadows of the sex industry. Overcoming stigmas and stereotypes is something you work toward daily as people. I say this because as a Companion, I have never ONCE worried about my race, or who I was embarrassing. I have put my best foot forward, and fortunately, gents have responded positively to me.

Anzah mentioned something about the ‘woes’ of being a Black high end companion. There’s no such thing. The trick is, you have to be a Companion first. The lady that makes the decision to be a high end companion doesn’t do it for shits and giggles. She does it because she CAN. If you can’t, then of course, there are woes.

I knew that as an intelligent Black woman, I wouldn’t just meet those who love Black women, but I would entertain those on the fence about Black people in general. And I just give them what I got: intelligence, warmth, ambiance, and something described as ‘spicy Ebony flair’. While I don’t speak in Ebonics (not much anyway LOL) I am confident it’s possible to be respectable, well-rounded and cultured, and not have to hide the color of my skin.

]]> By: Ms. Pris https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-12445 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:38:40 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-12445 I really appreciate this post and hope to see more like it. I had no idea of the history of “respectability politics”, and now I know something.

]]> By: Cyd https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-12441 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:52:28 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-12441 I posted an ask on your tumblr before I saw this. Thank you for calling attention to the lack of insight the panelists had about the very topic we were discussing. I knew that respectability politics around sex work is something that unevenly effects WOC, and I didn’t take the responsibility to not just talk about it in my responses, but also acknowledge that my perspective on it is limited, and that space should have been given to someone with more lived experience. As a white passing gay trans man the expectations upon me to adhere to ‘respectability politics’ norms are way different than black women. I will not repeat this mistake in the future and thank you for taking the time to call this out.

]]> By: Anzah https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-12405 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:03:16 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-12405 I also thank you for this article. I’m in the process about writing about the glass ceiling for higher end black companions, and agree that there need to be more WOC voices here. Like most change though, it will be gradual. But this is a great discussion opener.

]]> By: BD https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-12397 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:18:37 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-12397 I’m a biracial sex worker and I’ll be honest, i didn’t quite understand the previous discussion about “respectability politics” (also i found it kind of boring and in no way applicable to me). So thank you Miss Peechington for further explaining the idea and its origins!
I feel like a lot of the roundtable discussions on this site are missing a lot by not having the viewpoints of WOC so i really hope you’ll be contributing more!

]]> By: Meet Our New Editors https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-the-people-who-coined-the-term-addendum-to-the-respectability-politics-round-table/#comment-12395 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:00:50 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14380#comment-12395 […] terms of skin color, gender identities, national identities, and sexual identities. You can help by continuing to hold us accountable and encouraging every sex worker you know to contribute. Those who don’t feel like writing a […]

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