Melinda Chateauvert

Collecting stories about sex workers creating community & changing the world. Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement drmindyc (at)

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

#RespectabilityPolitics feeds the #prison-industrial-complex

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

#ColoradoSprings "Vatican for evangelical Christianity" the base for over a hundred evangelical church and para-church organizations, including two prominent figures in the Christian Right: Ted Haggard, pastor of New Life Church, and Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family.

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@nope11843177 @netflix Nope that’s xxxked-up thinking. Saying your daughter or mother shouldn’t do sex work is #whorephobia and slut-shaming. It allows the murder of #sexworkers and encourages police to ignore #serialkillers.

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

I know I'm late posting this but I did this thing for @netflix that dropped today. This one is about the sex workers - murdered and survivors - not the killer so much. And maybe too much about the NYPD.

[Netflix @netflix]

Welcome to Times Square in 1979 — a playground of pleasure with a killer on the loose.

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer premieres December 29.

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

#sexworkersunite #respectsexwork #whorephobiakills #listentosurvivors #missingwomxn #sexworkersrightsarehumanrights #stopslutshaming

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@KellyAnneTV This outage map is inaccurate. THERE IS NO POWER IN THE FRENCH QUARTER. Take a look at the photos of the dark FQ

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@BurkeIngraffia Actually this outage map is inaccurate. There is NO ELECTRICITY IN THE QUARTER.

[Beacon Press @BeaconPressBks]

That time when @whorestorian @liz_edman @ginnygilder @LauraAJacobsNYC @KJennings @MartinMoranJr @dreanyc123 @KayJWhitlock & others reflected on the 50th anniversary of the #StonewallRiots. Today we honor the power of queer #resistance. #DefundThePolice https://t.co/WbtnrKz8bc

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

I don’t know but is @guardian / Matta Busby pulling a slick FU to @RESCUEorg and s e x trafkg awareness month propaganda by calling out Miliband’s #WhiteSupremacy? Course #sexworkerrights folx have always known the agenda of those #pearlclutchers 🙀

[Beacon Press @BeaconPressBks]

“Sex workers are fighters & they’ve been fighting against the police & predators for a long time. They also tell stories about building community & organizing protests about individual acts of resistance.”—@whorestorian #Pride #FightThePower https://t.co/dD1qfHQ4zo

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@Schedule2CD @ZoeDodd @marginalutilite @crackdownpod “The Plan” — which Black ppl have suspected since at least the 1960s — is that the white folks dropped heroin in the cities so they could shut down Black protests, criminalize, and uproot Black communities (read: “ghettos”) so white folks could move back to “their” cities.

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

Still true. Still not recognized by historians or by activist historians.

[Notches Blog @NotchesBlog]

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the #AIDS Panic

@whorestorian relates how sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

https://t.co/6pvwzlgvq0

#histsex #WorldAIDSDay2020 #sexworkersunite

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

.@alexnpress, YMTM: Strippers STARTED the campaign to reclassify workers as workers not as independent contractors beginning in Calif in 1997! I #Sexworkers’ victories est’d legal precedent for @uber et al #sexworkersunite @comebystjames @jacobinmag
https://t.co/L3xtzMve90

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@JerickaBattle And around October at least half of them will be asking for letters of recommendation!

[Beacon Press @BeaconPressBks]

From #Stonewall to #SlutWalk, sex workers have been at the vanguard of #socialjustice movements such as gay liberation, #womensrights, #reproductivejustice, and prison abolition. @whorestorian uncovers this underrepresented movement. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/dD1qfHQ4zo

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@redlightreader Clients don’t “use” sex workers. We aren’t Kleenex! Get your verbiage right n

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

A good story ... too bad @TimGinty doesn’t recognize human trafficking when he writes about it: Migrant workers in Thailand are organizing to combat exploitation by the country's fishing industry https://t.co/FdoMPmbGdO

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@wwoz_neworleans What’s the Cat Ladies in the Bywater?

[Mary Frances Berry @DrMFBerry]

I’m doing a thing tonight, ICYMI. #historyteachesustoresist #votingisnttheonlything #TheResistance #MLKDay #MLKDay2020 @Trevornoah @TheDailyShow @ComedyCentral @BeaconPressBks

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@DominateREALITY Nor does this white savior even listen to researchers like @PyeJakobsson who have documented the wrongs of Swedish model.

[Melinda Chateauvert @whorestorian]

@lifehaspurpose @HRC @LambdaLegal Seriously? The LGBTQ movement was started by sex workers! @SRLP @MarshaPJohnson @SlutWalkTO #respectabilitypolitics #carceralfeminism #sexworkersunite