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I’ve just always appreciated diverse queer people. I’ve dated both transmen and transwomen. Just learn about your own gender policing and don’t do it to your partners, or anyone for that matter. Learn about transphobia and trans people’s concerns. Be an ally, not a fetishist. Don’t out your partners for your own ends – be that to shock, or to give you queer credibility, remember that everyone owns their own information, and transpeople risk discrimination and violence from outing.

International Whores Day has a rich history, starting in 1975 when a group of sex workers staged a sit in at a Church in Lyon in France, to protest the discrimination against sex workers.In Lyon, France on June 2 1975, sex workers and their supporters took over a church and staged a sit in over a number of days. The action was in protest against the increasing number of arrests of street sex workers, police harassment of them and the lack of interest shown by the police in solving murders and other crimes committed against them. This action inspired other sex workers around the world to start to organize themselves politically, giving birth to the sex worker rights movement that we have today. International Whores Day has been described as the sex workers Stonewall.

It’s partly a memorial to a friend that died (it’s a quote from him), and partly a statement about who I am and how I live