Star Moon

♡ Here to connect with other SWers on my sfw account ♡ she/her ♡ 18+ ♡ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ♡ Audhd ♡

[Red Umbrella Club @redumbrellaclub]

Publishing sex workers on their own terms

This International Sex Workers’ Day on June 2nd, meet the women behind Working Girls Press, a community-centered model for storytelling and resource-sharing.

Read more: https://t.co/rWEfFB5u8r

[Red Umbrella Club @redumbrellaclub]

Your Computer May Soon Require an Age Check. And It Might Not Take ‘No’ for an Answer

Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to know how old you are.

Age verification laws are no longer limited to porn sites. After more than two dozen US states passed laws targeting adult websites like PornHub—and Utah moved against VPN use—the next battleground is your operating system.

Starting in 2027, California's Digital Age Assurance Act will require operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Android, ChromeOS, and Linux distributions, to ask users for their age during device setup and share an age range with apps. Depending on how future laws evolve, that process could eventually involve government IDs, credit cards, or biometric verification.

Aaron Mackey, deputy legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, warns the effects won't stop at California’s borders. Because tech companies rarely build separate operating systems for different states, he says these systems will likely be rolled out "for everyone who uses [operating systems], including the billions of folks outside of California."

Read more: https://t.co/jur5tygMo9

[Red Umbrella Club @redumbrellaclub]

Sex educator explains why neither sex or porn addiction are recognized by the medical community.

[📸 👩🏻‍💻 HONEY 🪞👩🏻‍🎨 8th cammiversary July 2 @itshoneylive]

Mind you they (along with people who write erotica) suddenly consider themselves sex worker adjacent when it's time to center themselves in SWers' discussions or try to get free attention/social interaction with us lol

[Arill 🌟 @arill_b_r]

Good excuse to share this wonderful site https://t.co/UMKbXjvkID

[gal pacino 🕸️🪽 @autumnstigmata]

It's frightening to be trans in the U.S., especially in red states. To that end, I'm excited to finally able to share what I've been working on for the past year: 110+ pages of trans refugee relocation resources, guides, and support networks within the shield states. 🔗👇

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

"sex workers are the vanguard in labor, technology, and social justice. betraying us is betraying yourselves."

This part.

Sex workers sit in a unique position where they're at the intersection of multiple domains, stigmas, and technologies that affect us all.

[n @onlywithn]

are you full of love because you’re full of grief, or full of grief because you’re full of love

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— update: we’re halfway to 600 films on my ‘vintage black films of old hollywood’ list! it amazes myself that i keep finding more gems to share with y’all. i recommend checking it out if you wanna get into vintage black hollywood. 🌹📽️🎟️ https://t.co/KA2JCMuoJ1

[Mistress Max @habad0mina]

You do not need to work with men to make money. You do not need to work with men to make money. You do not need to work with men to make money. You do not need to work with men to make money. You do not need to work with men to make money.

[Lux Lives | LA • FMTY | 🇵🇸 @luxliv3s]

Pls understand the timing is not a coincidence or culture war. Sex work criminalization is overwhelmingly wielded against immigrants. Collapsing sex work and sex trafficking is just a legal excuse for more arrests, deportations, and deadly raids on immigrant-owned establishments.

[𓆩♡𓆪 JuicyPomma 🔜 LA/Vegas/Otakon 𓆩♡𓆪 @succubusluut]

This, a lot of people are not connecting the dots that it’s payment processors for forcing the hand of platforms.

Payment processors are writing the terms of services for platforms, payment processor are dictating what is and isn’t allowed. Payment processors are just like ‘Well we follow the law!!!’ and tell platforms to ban users and content.

Think about how this actually affects people!! Y’all often think it’s only sex workers and our platforms that they can do this too, it’s not.

[mommy morgue⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ @mommymorgue]

any sw still using amazon wishlists PLEASE stop

[Spoop @Sp00pyBeans]

Baby bats will be like “you’re sexualising/fetishising goth by doing OF” and then wear chokers/collars, fishnets, corsets, harnesses, and other items that were taken from kink/SWer communities. Before alt fashion was mainstream, goths had to shop at sex shops for accessories. The two worlds are historically and intrinsically intertwined. Get over it.

[☾forest of venus☽ @venusriverss]

performative wokeness is all it is. expecting survival sw to abandon their income when the war is making prices of living go up even more. “it’s gonna be hard but it’s worth it” actually that’s life or death not just a hard decision. sorry, i want to feed my animals.

[big honkin caboose @itsbighonkin]

If you don’t want to pay someone’s subscription fee to see them naked that’s fine, you simply don’t get to see them naked. Skirting around the cost and searching for leaks is a violation of consent

[Star Moon @starvegamoon]

It’s usually (but not always) white women who can make themselves desirable to men who have the privilege of gaining proximity to male power. But not every vulnerable person has the privilege of being gaslit & still having our needs met. Many of us only experience abuse & neglect

[Star Moon @starvegamoon]

what’s really frustrating about women who appeal to abusers for survival is that they don’t understand that that’s a survival mechanism not accessible to the most vulnerable people and that not everyone has the luxury of being gaslit and still having their needs met.

[Star Moon @starvegamoon]

but the moment it’s more advantageous for them to sacrifice you for male approval, they’ll do it in a heartbeat, even subconsciously. Because they were trained to associate male approval with safety & they know deep down they have to sacrifice other women to attain it.