AF3IRM are not comrades

Sex Worker Rights and Decolonial Struggle: An open letter to The Red Nation https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0rOyRBWpaOsOySkKe2afYScZVarys4nKLf_By_JQ32WK6vg/viewform

The Af3irm Agenda https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904

A Timeline of AF3IRM’s Carceral Discourse on Sex Work https://purplerose0666.medium.com/a-timeline-of-af3irms-carceral-discourse-on-sex-work-390aa4b69923

“Transphobia Will Not Be Tolerated”: AF3IRM’s Hidden Tolerance for Transmisogyny https://purplerose0666.medium.com/transphobia-will-not-be-tolerated-af3irms-hidden-tolerance-for-transmisogyny-7104b46dd9ca

And a good comment breaking down these SWERFs podcast eps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/revleftradio/comments/nbtaln/rev_left_radio_doubles_down_on_supporting_terf/gy69dta

On class traitors:

Dear BootLicker, Esperanza Fonseca https://medium.com/@babecolate/dear-bootlicker-esperanza-fonseca-3db88a6a199e

"Cancelled Podcast actually provides a platform to very very Materialist and Women-Protecting comrades, such as….Andrea Heinz, a TERF who works directly with cops." https://lesbianchemicalplant.tumblr.com/post/651549593480396800/a-recent-episode-of-rev-left-radio-featured

"I don’t know how else to explain to people who are supposedly already Marxists that the bourgeois police cannot be used to 'protect proletarian women.'” https://lesbianchemicalplant.tumblr.com/post/651375218176163840/lesbianchemicalplant-lesbianchemicalplant-citing

Comrade Brigid, the same one that spread this reactionary anti-sex worker information to a bunch of communist podcasts, came out as a mega TERF after denying it for years: https://twitter.com/wittlett/status/1552733752576679945?t=KUaP4Tk0xNKC4dBY4DI41w&s=19

As for Khara Jabola-Carolus, another guest on these shows, she's a founder of AF3IRM, which works with bourgeois cops who trap sex workers and incarcerate them and just make their lives harder in general. Here's a paper she worked on with Dominique Roe-Sepowitz https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10911359.2021.1875097?journalCode=whum20 https://search.asu.edu/profile/276287

Dominique works very closely with community groups including the Phoenix Police Department, the Phoenix Prosecutor's Office and Catholic Charities DIGNITY programs.

[...] Community partnerships for developing new knowledge about sex trafficking include the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Phoenix Police Department, and the Tucson Police Departments.

This article talks about how Dominique Roe-Sepowitz set up police stings of sex workers

https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904

Here's more on Project Rose https://www.nswp.org/es/news/project-rose-ends-monica-jones-detained-australia

You can find more articles if you google "project rose sex work"

Like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/av4eyb/in-arizona-project-rose-is-arresting-sex-workers-to-save-them

Here's Khara Jabola-Carolus bragging about her research being used to open a new sex trafficking treatment facility in Hawai'i, ran by Ho‘ola Na Pua a non-profit that regularly collaborates with law enforcement https://twitter.com/PurpleRose0666/status/1412895416937447430?t=kVlZmSkNjUPi30Nu-l9NIw&s=19

More on this https://twitter.com/angel_isab3lle/status/1538113631585374208?t=s_8hziQ4uXbVbtYEV413xw&s=19

i think about this a lot. sex workers are on the ground, we don’t have time to craft the propaganda that af3irm and the antis get funneled with $ to create bc we have our backs against the wall & aren’t given support. this is why i beg leftists to look past the flowery language and look at what they are doing af3irm and these anti trafficking orgs are doing nothing but giving police more $ and power, sex workers are on the ground helping our kin with limited funds. academics and theorists on this app can sit up and write thread upon thread on why johns are the worst people on this world when you’re in the industry (it’s actually the cops & ice) and we have to play defense every single time, it’s tiring. but i just want to remind y’all that these anti groups are just propaganda machines, they are not producing any results for the people on the ground, despite all the $ and attention they receive. they are succeeding however in getting ppl who call themselves communists to believe. to believe that spreading this propaganda is doing anything but making the bed for more criminalization and money for cops like what has happened in texas and they are trying to pass in hawaii.

https://twitter.com/angel_isab3lle/status/1511403782348845058?t=WPX6SuJPi0dQ_ANeb6X7gA&s=19

  • Thylacine [any]
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    2 years ago

    I had already basically stopped listening to Rev Left by that point but seeing him just double down and be shitty to people pointing out how they were awful people to have on his podcast really made me never want to listen to him again. Like this was already after he had Black Hammer on and then they were shown to be a fuckin antisemitic cult, maybe you don't need to platform any random asshole who claims to be a leftist? I feel like there was even a third time he did an episode with someone shitty but I don't remember now.

      • Thylacine [any]
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        2 years ago

        oh yeah, like maybe a month before the whole "Anne Frank was a Becky" thing. The whole interview was super weird though. Personally, after that I would probably take a moment to reflect on what I'm doing, but I guess that Brett is just built different.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I can only find the archive version of it, so Breht at least had the sense to take that shit down.

        • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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          2 years ago

          Too bad they don't have the sense to take down the pro SWERF ep with mega TERF Brigid and AF3IRM mouthpiece Esperanza

          https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/prolefem