'I feel like now is the time for me to step forward, pay respect, and shine a light on the challenges facing sex workers, especially during these uncertain times:' FKA twigs launched a pandemic fundraiser for sex workers
FKA Twigs. Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images On Tuesday, FKA Twigs dropped a new music video with squeaky-voiced rapper 645AR, in which she plays a cam model; maybe not coincidentally, she also launched a fundraiser for sex workers in the UK whose incomes have been dealt a blow by the coronavirus pandemic. The GoFundMe initiative, which she announced on Instagram, will benefit SWARM Collective, Lysistrata, and the East London Strippers Collective.
FKA Twigs is a stunning pole dancer — a “prodigy,” as her trainer for the music video “Cellophane” put it to Nylon — an in the caption of Tuesday’s post, explained that she learned her first move at age 19, while “working as a hostess in a gentleman’s club.” Hostessing, Twigs added, “is when one person pays another person for their time, anything from a conversation over dinner to sex work, and the club gets a cut of the fee.
My lived experience as a very young woman in these environments has not only informed the strong and formidable woman that I am today, but also a lot of my work as a music and visual artist — sometimes even subconsciously.I feel like now is the time for me to step forward, pay respect, and shine a light on the challenges facing sex workers, especially during these uncertain times.
As much of the world retreated into coronavirus lockdown this past spring, and clubs of all kinds began shutting their doors, workers whose livelihoods necessitate human contact suffered badly. Often unable to see clients in person, and — at least in countries that criminalize sex work, like the U.S.
The stigma that still clings to the industry makes sex workers vulnerable in non-pandemic times, particularly those who already face discrimination for their race, sexuality, gender identity, and/or immigrations status: Transgender people; people of color; indigenous people; and undocumented people are all disproportionately targeted by police, and disproportionately likely to experience homelessness.
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