(1/4) Hi. Welcome to a very special #SexWorkFriday! I usually do my sex work article/news round-up on Saturdays. However, I'll be busy this weekend, so I'm posting early ❤️. All links in this thread were gathered from the Old Pros Podcast newsletter

(1/12) Am I late on the Obsession (2026) discourse? Yes. Why? Honestly? I have no idea. The minute the movie came out, I should have been all over it. Well, better late than never. I'm linking a multitude of videos that already cover the film well.

rootedinrights.org/sex-work-is-... #DisabilityPrideMonth

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Disability and sex work: developing affinities through decriminalization" www.powerottawa.ca/wp-content/u... #DisabilityPrideMonth

I’ve also seen people with disabilities be told by non-disabled people that they shouldn’t joke about their disabilities. Like we’re supposed to just wallow in misery all the time and never have fun, but it’s okay for non-disabled people to make ableist jokes.

Aw, I'd really been hoping for her recovery. So sad. Bonnie Tyler, the singer best known for her hit 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' has died. She was 75. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

(1/4) "All of us like to laugh and make jokes. Humour is one of the unique characteristics of human beings, and it is extremely helpful to our psychological and physical well-being. But what about disability? Is it ever ok to laugh and make jokes about disability?"

(1/3) Using humour to accept my disability: chloetear.co.uk/2020/07/usin...

(1/5) "Disabling Comedy: 'Only When We Laugh!'": "Traditionally comedy involving disabled people has extracted humour from people’s impairments – i.e. a 'functional limitation'."

"'It Was a Joke For Him and a Life For Me': A Discourse on Disability Related Humor among Families of Children with Disabilities": dsq-sds.org/article/id/5... #DisabilityPrideMonth

(1/6) "Disability and humour have an uneasy relationship. Research on disability and humour, particularly when concerned with learning-disabled adults, frequently raises questions of comprehension and highlights the potential for ridicule."

www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sexy... #DisabilityPrideMonth

It seems massage parlours are fine if the police are the ones running them: torontolife.com/city/toronto.... G #FuckthePolice

Last post for today, I promise: "Tangled Arts has always been a site of political engagement with disability arts and a site for advancing our collective understanding of what a disability justice-oriented approach to art can be." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #DisabilityPrideMonth

(1/2) "The Disability Collective (TDC) is the only fully disability-led multidisciplinary arts organization in Toronto."

"The AGO and Tangled Art + Disability teamed up on a series of videos featuring the important work of six artists." ago.ca/agoinsider/a... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"AS IS exhibition, featuring work by the Disability Community & Culture Group" www.ocadu.ca/about-ocad-u... #DisabilityPrideMonth

Not sure how extensive this class is/resources are, or if it is open-access/free, but it sounded interesting to me: arthistoryteachingresources.org/lessons/disa... #DisabilityPrideMonth

(1/2) "The program supports Ontario-based: > artists and arts professionals who are Deaf and/or have a disability > ad hoc groups, collectives and arts organizations mandated to serve and led by artists or arts professionals who are Deaf and/or have a disability"

tangledarts.org #DisabilityPrideMonth

(1/3) "'People ask how I can teach something I was never formally taught,' he says, 'But learning doesn’t only happen in institutes. A person keeps learning from whatever life gives them.'"

(1/2) "Celebrated journalist Lionel Morrison brings this history to life, honoring his forgotten comrades."

"Drawing on unique insights from his role as a leading opposition lawyer..., award-winning author Flint Taylor details the vast political corruption uncovered in the Hampton case and the twists and turns of Wilson's forty-year effort to win his freedom." www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2733-t...

(1/2) "With astute insight and immersive prose, [Edna] Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and Germany, discovering what it means to be Black at home and abroad."

(1/2) This is a very good video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1w... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1w....

"Although disability benefits vary province to province, in every province, it is far below the poverty line, and in none of them would someone living entirely on disability be lifted out of poverty by an extra $200/month." www.kingstonist.com/news/opinion... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Class-based Disablism in the Academy: A Research Report" (2025) srhe.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #DisabilityPrideMonth

(1/3) Article title: "Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship."

theconversation.com/disabled-you... #DisabilityPrideMonth

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Disability, Race, and Immigration: The Intersectional Impact of Policing" "This Article calls for systemic changes to policing that account for the unique experience of noncitizens with mental illnesses." scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcont... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"This paper explores the concept of disability through a critical disability lens to understand how Indigenous ontologies are positioned within the dominant discourse of disabled peoples in Canada." cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"...Asian Americans with disabilities face a set of unique challenges, including stigma, shame, cultural barriers, underrepresentation, the model minority myth and the racism and ableism that’s been exacerbated by the [COVID-19] pandemic." www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Bodies and their perceived functionality were weaponized to uphold slavery in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...Time and again, Black people have been harmed by medical and societal institutions" disabilityalliancebc.org/the-link-bet... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Disability activists...argue that the Canadian government actively uses MAID to encourage disabled people to die, thereby removing said individuals from requiring government support in the first place." www.cbc.ca/news/opinion... #DisabilityPrideMonth

cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cj... #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Canadians have rationalized that non-dying disabled people are being provided MAID in the name of compassion. However, it is not compassionate to provide death for one reason while pretending it is for another." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #MAiD #MAiDisEugenics #DisabilityPrideMonth

"The Surprising History of BMI (And Why It Matters Today)." This short by Dr. Joel, the Medical Mythbuster, is amazing. I highly recommend folks watch the clip: www.youtube.com/shorts/RttWW...

"Heritage is as much about people as it is about place." cms.fromlahorewithlove.org/2026/07/05/t...

Announcing massive layoffs and a goal to reach one billion users in the same memo is just the ultimate bad vibes move. Earnest or not, no one sees that prospect as an exciting challenge to overcome. It looks like you’re being prepped for some Amazon-style piss in a bottle workloads.

Just gonna add this too, what with videos making the rounds today of Patriot Front marching in Washington D.C. and all the people clutching their pearls over how they're "not the America we know". America lied to you growing up so you'd have the cognitive dissonance now. bsky.app/profile/faea...

I swear, if the working class hadn't been indoctrinated so badly by the divide and conquer propaganda from the colonizer class, the revolution would've done been over with long before Turtle Island ever got colonized.

(1/4) It's the very first #SexWorkSaturday for July 2026! Time really can move both slowly and incredibly quickly. The links in this thread come via the Old Pros newsletter. I also included an additional resource for interested folks ❤️

Or to put it more bluntly, the US flag is a hate symbol. It's a symbol of a death cult - one that demands loyalty to a nation state built on the genocides of many different peoples. From the hundreds of Indigenous nations to queer peoples and many more, flying the US flag means you worship death.

(1/8) "The United States is celebrating [ #America250 ]. The story of the 4th of July, when we declared our independence, is a story about celebrating freedom from colonial rule. But it’s also a story about the power of revolution." *Necessary note on #IndependenceDay: bsky.app/profile/sexw...

This is what #America250 marks: 250+ years of violence

(1/3) 11 books by @plutopress.bsky.social to dismantle the US empire: - Settler Colonialism (Sai Englert) - Money in the Mountains (Rayelle Davis) - Immigration Detention Inc. (Nancy Hiemstra & Deirdre Conlon) - The American Surveillance State (David H. Price)