This website uses cookies to improve your experience. More information here. Happy and tired. All in all, Sabrina is satisfied, but she could also take some time off. Trans females are usually kicked out of the family home. And I always felt that that Mexico was not really my place.
She had some connections in Catalonia, but she hit a language barrier when she arrived. Spanish, her mother tongue, was not much help in a place where speaking Catalan is mandatory. The measures in public spaces were not the only reason. The state provided insufficient protection.
Those eligible for public aid only received about 60 euro per week, so sex workers collectives got together and organised a crowdfunding that raised 35, euro. When the lockdown relaxed and a curfew was put in place, street sex workers returned to public spaces in daylight, which got a lot of negative media attention.
Many regular clients disappeared because of the pandemic. Those thoughtful people, the good clients disappeared, and we were left to deal with the assholes. You can do whatever to us because we are not seen as actual workers. We are something to reject easily, or we are victims to rescue. While across Europe we start to return to a semblance of the old days, the issues sex workers were facing before are still present.
In Spain, there are two draft bills that could affect sex work, by criminalising their working premises or conflating sex work with trafficking. If they created opportunties, then maybe less people would be put in a position where they have to engage in sex work.
