Royal Mummy of Ramesses II, detail
The mummy of Ramesses II was among those found in the royal cache (DB320) at Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. It was completely covered with linen bandages that bear the king’s name and epithets in Hieratic script.
The mummy has silky hair, which was white at the time of death, but has yellowed from the preservative chemicals. His nostrils were filled with resin and seeds, perhaps to better hold their shape. Now in the Royal Mummies Hall, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26214
Sex workers (as well as people who use and/or sell drugs) have always known they can’t rely on police for protection because cops regularly use laws that criminalize prostitution, drug possession, and living outside to harass, coerce, extort and arrest them. Research shows sexual misconduct and sexual assault is endemic among police officers in the United States. A 2017 study based on interviews with 250 women selling sex on the streets of Baltimore found that 71 percent reported “abusive” encounters with police. Police get away with it because the law is currently on their side, and their position as law enforcement officers with powerful unions almost guarantees that they will not be held accountable.
Spellman said police are notorious for extorting money from sex workers in exchange for “protection” from being arrested. However, that protection only extends to the officers who get paid off, and with others, it’s a “crapshoot.” And what about protection from abusive clients and other risks that come with working on the street?
So, sex workers have developed practices for keeping each other safe and providing mutual aid outside the purview of the state, providing models for addressing public health safety without police. Activists say their knowledge and experience should be centered in conversations around defunding the police, redistributing those resources to communities and dismantling police altogether:
Sex workers need to be at the center of talking about alternatives to policing when it comes to addressing violence.
Sex working communities have been creating different ways to keep each other safe from those who wish us harm (INCLUDING THE COPS) for decades.
— The Prodigal Whore (@MPDreamWhore) June 7, 2020
“In the face of criminalization and whorephobic violence, sex working people have always sought to create our own systems of support and protection outside of the cops, criminal legal processes and societally accepted channels because most sex workers know those systems will never bring justice and have no interest in listening when harm happens,” said Red S., an organizer with a mutual aid organization for sex workers in Chicago and New York City called Support Ho(s)e, in an email.
70s, 80s and 90s Anarchist Zine/Booklet Library
this is by no means complete, but given how things are developing just now almost everywhere I thought I’d share a collection of practical n theoretical zines and newspapers from the UK underground anarchist press during similar struggles at the end of the last century
- INSURRECTION MAGAZINE - an anarchist magazine from the 80s edited by Jean Weir which introduced the ideas of the insurrectionists in Greece and Italy to the UK
- ANARCHY MAGAZINE - an archive with 24 issues of the London based Anarchy Collective’s magazine spanning from 1971 - 1985
- Beasts of Burden: Capitalism, Animals, and Communism (1999) - The aim of this anonymous pamphlet was to initiate a debate between animal liberationists and revolutionaries
- The ANGRY BRIGADE DOCUMENTS & CHRONOLOGY - Shows some extent of the armed struggle that was carried out in Britain in the late sixties and early seventies, reproposing the validity of armed attack against capital in all its forms.
- Tame Words From a Wild Heart - a collection of essays by Jean Weir (not actually from last century at all, from 2016 but a good one to read if you’ve enjoyed what’s above)
Fuck Butch Hartman
Bitch ‘I created your childhood’ Fartman:
- ran away with the money from his Oaxis kickstarter
- blamed Tara Strong for the death of Mary Kay Bergman
- blatantly homophobic/transphobic, going as far as ‘clearing up’ the popular fan theory that Danny Phantom is trans multiple times
- stolen art that was sold as a commission
More if you wanna go down the rabbit hole:
