• bubbalu [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    if you're looking for a similar, more hopeful, if somewhat less here's the science I can't recommend 'Parable of the Sower' enough. Also good contrast in terms of presenting sex work and extreme exploitation as a plot and character element in away that is actually insightful and critical—not just fetishistic.

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That is an excellent reccomendation. Howerver, I remain a little baby. I read two of butler's books and it made me too sad. I was trying to expand my horizions or whatever but instead I just ended up with a small depressive episode.

      I don't think I am emotioanlly strong enough to handle the emotional weight of empathizing with a margalized story like that. Especially now a days.

      I get that makes me kinda a shitty comrade. It's in the self crit pile. But that pile is under trying to make rent or whatver right now. I don't have the strength for it.