Bwanabrühe

memoirsofaworkingprostitute:

What you probably know about human trafficking is horseshit. Voltaire said, “If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” As a survivor of trafficking AND a sex worker, never have I found this to be more true than in the realm of anti-trafficking activist work in America — a movement that does not belong to the people it’s intended to serve.

I’m a human trafficking survivor. I’m now an advocate for other survivors, and I was recently “outed” in my job as also having been a part of the sex industry. Some of this was by choice; at other times, people outed me without my permission. I was reported to the director and dragged into the office, where two different heads of the department asked invasive questions about my personal sex life, my ethics and morals related to sex (specifically around children) and why I thought I could work as a human trafficking advocate with the goal of helping people move out of forced prostitution if I had been a part of the industry myself.

What we need as survivors, in order to begin to take back our own movement, is the creation of philosophies that are purely survivor-lead and that begin with the telling of our own stories. But many of the nonprofits out there aren’t taking that approach.

aktion23:

We thought 5/23 might be the right day to make this public, even though it isn’t 100% ready yet…

About the D.I.S.L.I.B.

The D.I.S.L.I.B. is the Discordian Internet Society’s Library of Interesting Books. Or maybe “DISLIB” is just short for Discordian Library. Who knows?

It is a collection of all kinds of stuff, may they be discordian, discordian-related or just interesting for chaotic scholars and followers of other silly cults. We hope that all the collected stuff we are offering is free. In case it isn’t, and especially if it is your un-free stuff we are offering *gulp* illegaly here, just tell us (as soon as the corresponding forms are ready), and we take it down.

As you might have guessed from the logo - a winged St. Gulik that has been shamelessly adapted to a pseudo-retro-egyptian style - we have been inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria. Also, by the Bibliotheca Anonoma project, the Discordian Archives and the Discordian Online Library of the​ M’.’M’.’M’.’​​​, which also provided the base for our current stock.

Speaking of “we” all the time, you might wonder who we are. Maybe you don’t. We tell you anyway. Currently, there’s two of us: Abbot Ron Oxymo, head of the Ordo Dea Discordia and His Quasaric Sphericity the Bwana Honolulu, head of Zimmer523, the German Discordian AnArchive. But we are open for applications.

Also, submissions. Are you missing some important work? Maybe your own? Give us a hint (again, as soon as the corresponding forms are ready).

Submissions, criticism and applications are also accepted via tumblr messages. ;-)

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