*tw* child abuse/rape

My dad tried to cut my fingers off once...

My stepmom saved my fingers and told me to run.

I ran back to my previous foster home...they called children services...Jan, my case worker called my dad. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

He beat me...
Then he took me to the ER...
At the ER I had contact with a doctor, a nurse, an intake person and a cop.

The doctor questioned my dad. My dad lied.

The cop questioned my dad. My dad lied.

They fixed up my bruises and sent me home with my abuser https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">
The next morning my stepmom came home with a messed up face.

She was in another "car accident".

She lied to me to protect me.

I knew my dad beat her.

My dad beat me.

We never talked about it. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">
A year& #39;ish later she left my dad...

After she left...and her stripper money left...

my dad started sex trafficking me. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

I was 9 years old...

Being raped repeatedly by grown men.

They paid my dad in substances and they paid me with icecream money. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">
Adults with access to help me @ 9:
• childrens services & NGOs
• multiple medical professionals
• multiple cops
• school
• my mom, who walked out AS I was being abused (I was 10 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">)

NONE provided any real support.
There is progress in PA & Allegheny County https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen"> shout out to the awesome team at @DecrimPA https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen"> Making changes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">

My https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz"> is heavy because this year will be 30 years since my dad was murdered in California...

AND THEY STILL AREN& #39;T SAVING THE CHILDREN https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">
Instead they TARGET adult, consensual full service sex workers.

• target FSSWers
• take away their personal identity and experiences and dictate they are a victim
• coerce into medical treatment to "fix" the whore in us

This isn& #39;t ending sex trafficking.

#PunishAHoe
When we put forward legislation that is survivor centered, legislation that is full service sex worker centered, we will start to end abuse and protect victims.

#ListenToSurvivors
Sex workers don& #39;t want to be saved. We want the privileged to stop gatekeeping our resources and #LetUsSurvive https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust"> Sex workers have voices, many of y& #39;all just ignore them.

We have our own voice...

#ListenToSexWorkers
It& #39;s time to protect both sex workers and sex trafficking victims...

FOSTA/SESTA was signed 4/11/2018.

FOSTA/SESTA immediately caused multiple safe spaces online to disappear, leaving hundreds of thousands of sex workers without access to safety information.
Abuse I experienced post FOSTA/SESTA:

• roughed up & raped
• choked out and told to "stop your fucking activism& #39;ing"
• extorted

Research done/violence up.

It& #39;s time to protect sex workers & sex trafficking victims.

Studying violence comes AFTER ENDING VIOLENCE. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">
NOW...

@RoKhanna & @SenWarren thinks it& #39;s a better idea to STUDY abuse against sex workers (and sex trafficking victims) BEFORE ENDING THE ABUSE.

The purpose to STUDY VIOLENCE BEFORE ENDING VIOLENCE is to...
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INCREASE GRANTS...

gatekept from full service sex workers.
They are going to continue to allow us to get raped, beaten, trafficked and murdered while they study our pain?

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This is unacceptable for lawmakers to prioritize studying violence ABOVE ENDING VIOLENCE...
When we have a legislative solution that can PROTECT SEX WORKERS & PROTECT SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS we end abuse.

Center lived experiences.
We get protections and they can still have their silly little study so they can https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♂️" title="Läufer" aria-label="Emoji: Läufer"> chase https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♂️" title="Läufer" aria-label="Emoji: Läufer"> those https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♂️" title="Läufer" aria-label="Emoji: Läufer"> grants!

Go get em...go get that money that WILL be used to ABUSE full service sex workers. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♀️" title="Läuferin" aria-label="Emoji: Läuferin">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃‍♂️" title="Läufer" aria-label="Emoji: Läufer">

*there& #39;s already studies btw* https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦‍♀️" title="Frau schlägt sich die Hand vors Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Frau schlägt sich die Hand vors Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Gesicht mit rollenden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit rollenden Augen">
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign"> OUR ABUSERS https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛑" title="Stop sign" aria-label="Emoji: Stop sign">

STOP KILLING MY COWORKERS https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">
Oh...I work on legislation...

THERE
ARE
WAYS
TO
PROTECT
SEX
WORKERS

@RoKhanna & @SenWarren - your bills needs AMENDED to PROTECT sex workers & sex trafficking victims.

Ro, your secretary has my email address...I sent this response so y& #39;all know where to respond if ya wanna...
@RoKhanna & @SenWarren...will you AMEND your trauma porn bill to protect sex workers and sex trafficking victims? Or is this just about the money?

Protecting workers & victims or MONEY? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht">

Whats your motive congresspeople?

Signed,
The mouthy whore that& #39;s here to #EndTheAbuse
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