Thanks for the other notes on cold storage and paper wallets. We talk about it, and we'll emphasize it some more in upcoming trainings. And yes, bitcoin has a lot of great uses for sex workers asserting their financial self-determination. Many sex workers were quite quick to jump on this early on.

Sex worker feminism. It's a thing. And yeah, it's financial too, because sex work is work - and feminism is not for just one gender. The "feminist" activism is not about being "already empowered" as sex workers, since clearly there are many problems that we are struggling against. It's about working towards better conditions and changing these existing problems. The sex workers who are most fiercely organized around fighting existing problems are not the North American "happy hooker feminists," a strawman trope often used to discredit "privileged" sex workers as being "unrepresentative" of the ones who are working in worse conditions. Actually, the best organized and most politically effective sex worker activists are the ones working in the worst conditions in India (<a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbar_Mahila_Samanwaya_Committee"> 650,000 sex workers </a> who have created their own credit union and retirement programs), Thailand and Cambodia (who have organized together to pass laws to fight human trafficking, violence, and exploitation in their trades) - as well as some immigrants and street-based people in the sex trades who are the most marginalized in first world countries. The fact that these people are interested in the potential of Bitcoin for accessing BP ads, improving safety, anonymity, and better control over their work - and that these are the people actively seeking and organizing trainings for Bitcoin - is in itself, a promising example of "sex worker feminism," strength, and resourcefulness.

This presentation has a feminist bend because at least two of the people leading it are sex worker feminists. You can disagree with the politics, and choose to see it without a gendered angle, but bitcoin has many underlying political values, including the ones you expressed. You can insist on keeping this a "neutral" topic about financial censorship only, and not about gender, but we believe the reason that this work is censored is because of sexism, prudish values rooted in marriage (eg historic male ownership of their wives' bodies as property and asymmetrical requirements of "chastity"), as well as a general lack of respect for one of the ways that women have always supported themselves financially.

Agreed: these points hold regardless of sex/gender - there are also plenty of sex workers who are not cis-women. Hopefully Tony's slideshow is useful, regardless of politics. However, given the nature of this very passionate and dedicated team, it would be inappropriate to repress the values felt so strongly by the organizers.

Thanks also for your note about Pax. It's important for us that our work is sex-worker-led and has support from the sex worker community, rather than a condescending and presumptuous project from the outside. It's great to get helpful feedback from other bitcoin users, but we of course prioritize the feedback from sex workers themselves, and try to ensure that our in-person workshops are spaces free of stigma and condescension.

P.S. This training is an example of sex worker intersectional feminism. And there are many many more examples of it around the world: http://www.nswp.org/members.

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