Sexworker Speaks Against Occupational Discrimination & Censorship from Mastercard
Please take the time to watch this entire video and share. I (and thousands and thousands of other sexworkers / adult workers) are facing occupational discrimination from financial institutions and need your help.
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Since Onlyfans threatened to boot sexworkers I’ve lost 1/2 of my subscribers and around 1/4 of my income stream and after Mastercard’s terms of service change Oct 15th I lost another huge chunk of my income stream (around 70%).
Banking institutions, Mastercard, and credit card companies should not dictate a workers autonomy and right to earn an income
Mastercard should not be giving into pressure from religious based organizations and those stirring moral panic. We are workers trying to make a living. This is abhorrent to be happening at all let alone during a pandemic.
I like all sexworkers am sick of being silenced, shadow banned, stigmatized, and deplatformed. Online work is meant to be safer for sexworkers. When you take this away you are pushing us into more dangerous forms of work, trade, and situations. Many of us do not have families or partners to fall back on in times of crisis.
This is an old war we’ve been fighting for our right to work. But now more than ever religious organizations are ramping up creating moral panic, receiving large amounts of funding, and pressuring banks, the public, and government to criminalize, stigmatize, and create more and more barriers for our survival.
Performers and Adult business owners like myself were excluded from government relief during the pandemic because we engaged in adult works. And now we are faced with even more economic instability and discrimination.
You can help by boosting sexworker’s voices. We are shadow banned and deplatformed so getting our voices heard is hard. You don’t need to speak for us. AMPLIFY US. Screenshot our stories and tag us.