Is Work Good or Bad? by Sukhrayman Kaur https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj en-us 2021-09-15 10:12:23 UTC 2021-10-06 02:49:33 UTC hello@padlet.com STATEMENT 1 sukhraymank https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742292940 2021-09-15 10:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742292940 STATEMENT 2 sukhraymank https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742293394 2021-09-15 10:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742293394 STATEMENT 3 sukhraymank https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742293986 2021-09-15 10:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742293986 work is neither good or bad but is a necessity to obtain money for daily living https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742575391 2021-09-15 12:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742575391 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742576589 The idea of an empowered sex worker isn't universal --> can't force down the rhetoric that all sex workers are empowered by their work especially when you have to consider prevailing social conditions and intersections at play]]> 2021-09-15 12:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742576589 in the sex industry, some groups are more vulnerable than the others. sukhraymank https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742578003 2021-09-15 12:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742578003 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742579692 white friends = ideological concerns
black friends = material concerns]]> 2021-09-15 12:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742579692 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742581157 producing or helping someone produce an orgasm also requires sensual labour + affect, therefore it is work]]> 2021-09-15 12:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742581157 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742584099 “productivity” is being narrowly defined… value of “products” also feels arbitrarily assigned]]> 2021-09-15 12:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742584099 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742586019 material reasons underlying the choice to do sex work for black women; critical to understand this ]]> 2021-09-15 12:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742586019 you are looking at sex work as how it economically benefits everyone and disregarding how it economically benefits the sex worker themselves sukhraymank https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742586719 2021-09-15 12:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742586719 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742587384 productivity is understood in a very myopic way -- totally reduces a sex worker's agency here, almost misogynistic]]> 2021-09-15 12:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742587384 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742594055 work that is mostly associated to women (so domestic work, sex work, childcare etc.) tends to be undervalued by virtue of it being perceived as helmed/predominated by women ]]> 2021-09-15 12:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742594055 the statement is disregarding the uncompensated labour that sex workers provides https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742594278 2021-09-15 12:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742594278 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742595576 i agree, domestic labour is unpaid and viewed as unproductive not because it is inherently so, but *because capitalism doesn’t assign a value (on its terms) to it*… this doesn’t mean it isn’t actually useful — it’s just that the ruling class & dominant cultural ideology benefit from not paying domestic labour]]> 2021-09-15 12:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742595576 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742596857 what is the relationship between housework and sex work tho?]]> 2021-09-15 12:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742596857 https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742597244 the capitalist logic of housework =/= work can also be extended to sex work, where this form of labour is also devalued (even if it is waged, precarity is still dominant for many SWs). the idea of workers in struggle must extend to sex workers as well, not just women in the household. in fact, SWs themselves often ARE also women to have to juggle domestic labour. they are all intersecting]]> 2021-09-15 12:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742597244 labour that women provide are usually viewed as 'unproductive' as society do not value the work that women do https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742605176 2021-09-15 12:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sukhraymank/z2b5oqrxs8ws5xdj/wish/1742605176