People constantly talk about suicides and overdose deaths in the adult industry, but they never look at how they might have had a hand in them. People decide we do porn because we are "broken" or something is wrong with us. They tell us constantly that we are unworthy of love, that we do not deserve to be married, have children, be happy. They tell us that we "tempt" men, that we are not able to make our own decisions, even when we chose this line of work, we are told we are "exploited" and "brainwashed" people believe we must have so little agency that we cannot consent to the use of our own image or sex. We are called names, stalked, harassed, debased, and doxxed by the same people who watch us. We are outted at non-porn jobs when we try to leave the industry, told we shouldn't do adult but that we also don't belong anywhere. We are treated as lesser by many and devalued so yes...this contributes to suicide, depression and mental health issues. I don't think the industry 'breaks' us. I think that people outside break us down.
Even in death, in the saddest, most horrific deaths, people talk about us like we are not human beings.
If that wouldn't make most people depressed, I do not know what would.
@IndiznadaTotal @publico_es El día en el que os deis cuenta de que negando nuestra existencia, voz y autonomía estáis reproduciendo los mismos patrones que el sistema patriarcal ha usado y usa para invisibilizar y oprimir a las mujeres y disidencias, os explotará la cabeza.
Trabajo sexual SÍ es trabajo.
El mundo de hoy está lleno de Orlandos, y es hora de que los conozcamos.
Llega, por fin, la fascinante carta de Paul B. Preciado a Virginia Woolf.
Desde que la vimos en la Berlinale se nos quedó dentro. Y ahí sigue.
@atalantefilms